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Testing what happens when the third party is down

Deep diveSeptember 22, 202110 min read

Every test mocks a 200 and production returned a 502 with an HTML body. The happy path is the only path with coverage.

Http::pool, and five requests in the time of one

NoteSeptember 15, 20212 min read

Five sequential API calls of 180 milliseconds each is nine hundred milliseconds of a request spent waiting, and they had no dependency on each other. Naming the requests…

A CSV export that streams instead of collapsing

Deep diveJuly 29, 202110 min read

An export that worked until the account with 400,000 rows. fetchAll, a collection and a string built in memory, at 512 MB.

A custom cast is the only place a value object belongs

NoteJune 18, 20212 min read

Converting a column to a value object in an accessor works until something writes to the model, at which point there are two representations and one of them…

Queue priority is not a number, it is a separate queue

Deep diveJune 8, 202110 min read

Password resets stuck behind a nightly export. A priority field does not help when the worker is already four minutes into something else.

A webhook endpoint that survives the sender

Deep diveJune 2, 202110 min read

The payment provider retried for six hours and every attempt timed out. A webhook is a notification, not a request for processing.

Two hundred integration tests that share one database

Deep diveMay 27, 202110 min read

A suite that passes alone and fails in a different order. Test 141 depends on a row test 88 created, and nobody wrote that down.

Http::fake, and the assertion that a call was made

NoteMay 13, 20212 min read

Http::fake without an assertion tests that your code did not crash, which is not the same as testing that it called anything. The catch-all returning a 500 is…

Octane and a static property is a data leak

NoteApril 29, 20212 min read

Octane keeps the application in memory between requests, so a static property set during one request is visible to the next one — including one belonging to a…

Octane resets the container and not your singleton

NoteApril 22, 20212 min read

Octane rebinds the container per request, and an object that captured a dependency at construction keeps the old one. Injecting the container to avoid capturing is a pattern…