Scaling the y-axis of Kibana visualizations
Have you ever googled something so many times without success that you thought it must be impossible, only to later realize that you just weren’t using the right words? It happened to me this week, so I’m posting this in the hopes that someone else using the same language I was using might find their… Read more
Adventures with escaping quotes in Jenkins pipelines
It seems inevitable that if you deal with writing pipelines in Jenkins, you’ll run into issues dealing with quotation marks in commands. Escaping quotes is a special nightmare in shell scripts generally, but Jenkins adds yet another layer of confusion on top of that. I’m going to cut through that layer and find out what… Read more
Testing in 2020, according to my Twitter bookmarks
It goes without saying that 2020 was a weird year for everybody. I wasn’t nearly as active on Twitter as I was last year, but thought I would try this again anyway. Just a few highlights from the testing twittersphere, based on what I thought to bookmark throughout the year. In no particular order, first… Read more
Three notes on Value Streams
These are some scattered notes from a DevOps Toronto meetup earlier this year. These are highlights from a presentation by Steve Pereira on value stream mapping. I’ve been finding making value streams explicit, whether formal or not, a key part of my role evolving from testing to DevOps more generally. One of the basic strategic… Read more
Jenkins: Check whether a DSL method exists
Occasionally when working with Jenkinsfiles, you’ll run into a NoSuchMethodError because of calling a function that Jenkins’s doesn’t know about: There are number of reasons that this can happen, such as a required plugin not being installed, or the shared library that defines the function isn’t loaded. Lately I have been working a lot with… Read more