Hotshot 005 - A quick introduction to the Spock Testing framework

Hot shots are a series of shorter podcast episodes from PEAT UK. Small bite size chunks of advice on DEV OPS and Platform Engineering. We had an issue with Docker containers and memory utilisation. Suddenly our Spring Boot integration tests were dying with an exit code of 137.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the professional enterprise solution of Cloud Foundry supplied to business. We tend to abbreviate it to PCF. Essentially PCF is largely the same code base as the open source Cloud Foundry on Github except for a bespoke components, which are web front-end application. PCF ha…

Java 10 was released on 20th March 2018. I think many software teams will hold back from upgrading to it. Even lesser numbers of professional probably still have yet to make a move from Java 8 to Java 9. Why would this be the case, because of legacy impediments and dependencies on application serve…

In this final episode of the experimental series 1, we take a gentle overview of cloud computing. We look at the history of cloud computing Why and how did this form of computing become popular? We get to know the meaning of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. We examine the constituent elements of so-called "clo…