Coding Blocks

Surveys – Wow we forget about them and ramble...sorry guys!

Mark Tinsley – PHP Composer – thanks for the tip!
https://getcomposer.org/

Joe made a game in Javascript (using dozens of libraries):

Box Pusher! (game name of the year)
https://github.com/THEjoezack/BoxPusher

Allen's cry for writing black-boxed, encapsulated code...
Episode on Encapsulation: http://www.codingblocks.net/episode23

Episode on SOLID Design: http://www.codingblocks.net/episode7

Probably want to listen to the first three parts of the 12 Factor App if you missed it:

http://www.codingblocks.net/episode32

IV. Backing Services

Any resource consumed over the network: databases, mail servers, cloud services, etc.

Anything external to your app (but could be local to your environment)

Should not have to change any code to redeploy – should be config changes if anything

Clearly Tech – Importance Rating: High

We've mentioned Splunk, and if you're not familiar, it's an enterprise piece of software that will aggregate logs from multiple sources (servers, computers, etc):
http://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/splunk-enterprise.html

Bug in Visual Studio that cost one person $6,500 in a few hours:

https://www.humankode.com/security/how-a-bug-in-visual-studio-2015-exposed-my-source-code-on-github-and-cost-me-6500-in-a-few-hours

V. Build, Release, Run

Build stage – transform which converts the code repo into an executable bundle

Release stage – combines the build with the required config and deposits it somewhere

Run – runs the app in the execution environment (development, staging, production, other)

Rolling back may be more complicated when you start talking about database schemas / data changes

Clearly Tech – Importance Rating: Conceptual???

Version numbers? What do you prefer? Version numbers with major and minor revisions? Or do you prefer timestamps?

VI. Processes

Stateless and Share Nothing

No local session

Make sure saving files go to an available repository

Clearly Tech – Importance Rating: High (Joe wants higher than high)

Resources We Like

http://www.12factor.net

http://www.clearlytech.com/2014/01/04/12-factor-apps-plain-english/

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/architecting-apps

Tips

Allen: Find problematic queries that are killing your SQL Server...replace 123 with the spid from sp_who2.

sp_who2 'active'

DBCC INPUTBUFFER(123)

If you want to be mean....replace 123 with the spid from sp_who2

KILL 123

Additionally, if there's high CPU and low I/O, it's likely either a missing or a fragmented index.

Joe: Tortoise Git

https://tortoisegit.org/

Mike: Tip of the week is the Pseudocode podcast
http://pseudocode.fm/

And...don't be lazy. We can't seem to get off our tails and get a business card made!

Dipping our toes into the DevOps waters with the Twelve-Factor App. How important is depedency management, and how fired would you be if you accidently leaked your company's source code?

Part 4 of our design patterns series, this time up it's Adapters, Facades, and Mementos. Oh, an which tech luminary would make the best head of state!

This week we answer a question, Allen registers for school, Joe reads some numbers, Michael breaks out the survey results, and Joe cringes at the thought of bidets. It's time for episode 29! And we thought, what better to talk about than to continue our discussion on hierarchical data solutions.