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Cooperative Functional Testing of REST APIs

There's something I was told that's been flitting around my mind, paraphrased: "Functional testing, done repeatedly, is pretty much monitoring." I'm not entirely convinced of the truth of this but it's got me thinking about how to make a hypermedia-ish REST API cooperate with clients that want to assert properties

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Adaptable REST resource model in Ruby.

Infrastructure services: it's what I do now. The primary service I work on is FireEngine, previously mentioned in this blog. It's a network device abstraction service, all bristling with Erlang goodness and RESTful delights. My team actively supports and develops three other major projects in addition, two of which are

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Dropwizard's Health Checks, Metrics and Operation Focus

I got a chance, finally, to play with Yammer's Dropwizard [http://dropwizard.codahale.com/] a bit this weekend. It's an interesting library/mini-framework that does so very much to showcase the best of RESTful API development in Java, sans all the Object Oriented Dark Ages ride-alongs: not much XML beyond

Track upstream in a branch, or, my git workflow.

In my work at Rackspace with the FDaAT git features heavily. My group's rate of development is fairly rapid: it is not atypical for our projects to receive multiple pull requests in a day, in addition to the work I'm doing. How I keep my changes separated from an evolving

Ternary Search Trie in Erlang

The last few months I've not done a terrible amount hobby programming; I spent much of the time interviewing (successfully!) at Rackspace and, since arriving in San Antonio, have been busy learning the team code-base. There were a few hobby projects I finished during February-April period, the one I'm most

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LOVE Maze

I find great joy in programming. Mostly, I make tools, to solve perceived problems or, my favorite, to ease burdens seen otherwise as only natural. It's a joy informed by a stubborn implicit reductionism in my thinking: any system can be analyzed, faults isolated and then repaired or mitigated without