Daily indices grow linearly and nothing removes them, so a logging cluster works beautifully for four months and then stops accepting writes with a disk watermark error at…
Mocking an upstream service makes the suite fast and guarantees nothing about the upstream still behaving that way. A contract test is a small suite that runs against…
SSH and HTTP basic auth are covered by shipped filters. A brute force against the application’s own login form is invisible to both, because it is a 200…
Every plugin reading _price from post meta is now reading a private field. The mechanical half, the half that is not, and the compatibility layer for code you…
Vue 2.5 improved its TypeScript declarations enough that a component can be written without a decorator library, which is the first release where the combination is worth trying…
Every instruction produces a layer, and a layer is reused only if every instruction before it is unchanged. Copying the source before installing dependencies therefore reinstalls everything on…
the_content is a queue every plugin joins, and priority decides the outcome. A shortcode that renders as text, a paragraph tag wrapped around a block element, and an…
Elixir wrapped gulp, which wrapped everything else. Mix wraps webpack directly, which removes a layer and — more usefully — leaves the underlying configuration reachable when the abstraction…
Before a build starts, the whole context directory is sent to the daemon. Without a .dockerignore that includes .git, vendor and node_modules, that is several hundred megabytes copied…