Because powermock is so yesterday xD? — Why? There are times you may need to work on legacy code that has no test with it and has a lot of static objects. It could be adding new features, refactoring or fixing bugs, all which will require you to write some tests first before beginning any implementation in order…

Local Controller controlling slave/s on AWS EC2 — Pretty cool idea I would say if you can control Jmeter slaves on from your local machine. Overview To generate a load of ≥ 6000 RPM, you should have the following distributed Jmeter set up an run it via this configuration. Without having distributed jmeter, tests would be suceptable to coordinated…

Overview Continuing from https://maziz88.medium.com/practical-clean-code-variables-methods-classes-f470eeffb98e, Software engineering in essence, strives to minimize coupling and increase cohesion. This in effect, minimizes impact of changes, and localize the changes made. The organization of the code will be in such a way where it’s logically grouped, reduces the gap in the mental model, which then…

Practical guide for applying and evolving clean code, design patterns to domain driven. This series will highlight each of the steps and then connect all of them into the big picture so everything can make more sense. This article being the first, focusing on clean code at class level and…

Cheapest mechanical keyboard I can buy in Malaysia. At around MYR 184 (including shipping in peninsular Malaysia, via Shopee, June 26 2020) you could get blue, brown or red Outemu switch. Context for the comparison I’ve been using Filco Mejestouch brown key for 9–10 years for work and Ducky red, blue and brown cherry…

In some cases, you may choose to use kafka + avro for internal communication in your micro-service architecture. One thing you have to consider is the distribution of the avro source (the .avsc) among the micro-services. Imagine having a group of micro-services that produce some messages and and another consuming…

Getting the right OS for the Custom Workstation, https://medium.com/@MazizEsa/assembling-the-workstation-5a3287b56f23. I found there are a few things that I need to adapt in order to be productive moving to Ubuntu, such as equivalent software, new habits that need to be picked up and also some difficulties that need to be mitigated. The move …

Now it’s time to assemble all the components into a working machine. We are going to see the differences in installing an AMD vs Intel based platform, installing the Random Access Memory (RAM), Solid State Disc (SSD) and troubleshooting some issues when installing the OS. Previous part https://medium.com/@MazizEsa/testing-the-power-supply-unit-529bebd3a2e0 Installing the Central Processing Unit (CPU)

After planning and getting the components needed, now it’s time to check if my existing power supply unit (PSU, that was purchased and used 10 years ago, transported in a luggage via flight and then was put into storage 5 years ago) still works. …