Kevin Coulombe
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Making the monolith testable

Apr 9, 20224 min read

To write reproducible and isolated tests, we need two things : Isolate global mutable state to the same scope as the test. Either the state can be...

Making the monolith testable

Go slow and break things

Jan 22, 20223 min read

It takes one person to change a lightbulb. Maybe a second person to hold the ladder. Any more people assigned to the job will slow it down. Go...

Go slow and break things

Who's talking to my cloud?

Jan 8, 20222 min read

It's the second time we get into this situation. It always begins the same. Someone says : "We'll do authentication after proving the design". Then a...

Who's talking to my cloud?

Changing development machine on Windows

Dec 18, 20216 min read

Anything I work on is either natively in the cloud like design documents and emails or it has a common distributed backup strategy with a few hundreds...

Changing development machine on  Windows

Sudoku solver

Dec 18, 20218 min read

This is an old post from August 9th, 2010 I recently had to build an optimized Sudoku puzzle solver for a homework which turned into a contest between...

Sudoku solver

Blogging circa 2010

Dec 14, 20212 min read

Twelve years ago, I figured I'd build a technical blog and write about projects and ideas. I already did some development consulting and I wanted to...

Blogging circa 2010