Engineering insights on infrastructure, cloud, and distributed systemshttps://dblooman.com/https://dblooman.com/blog/2012-03-28-responsive-testing/https://dblooman.com/blog/2012-03-28-responsive-testing/We thought we'd share some information on our testing process. & 13;Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2012-11-15-mobile-network-traffic-inspection/https://dblooman.com/blog/2012-11-15-mobile-network-traffic-inspection/In this post, i will talk about how to view network traffic and the HAR HTTP Archive file. This is useful for doing several things, my initial intention was...Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2013-07-30-wraith-opensource/https://dblooman.com/blog/2013-07-30-wraith-opensource/Today we are announcing the release of a front end regression testing tool called Wraith .  This tool is something we have been using for the last 6 mon...Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2013-11-10-game-client-web-browsers/https://dblooman.com/blog/2013-11-10-game-client-web-browsers/I recently got Battlefield 4, an intensive first person shooter with high detail graphics and enough shooting to satisfy any teenage angst. I purchased the g...Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2013-11-26-screen-recording-in-android/https://dblooman.com/blog/2013-11-26-screen-recording-in-android/Sometimes you need to show someone something on a phone, words are just not good enough. With testing moving more to mobile, having the ability to show a col...Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2015-02-22-real-time-gatling-results-with-docker-and-influxdb/https://dblooman.com/blog/2015-02-22-real-time-gatling-results-with-docker-and-influxdb/Gatling http://gatling.io/ is an open source, Scala based load testing tool. It offers a simple proxy based web recorder for following user journeys, or alte...Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2015-05-02-creating-an-alarm-service-using-aws-lambda-and-slack/https://dblooman.com/blog/2015-05-02-creating-an-alarm-service-using-aws-lambda-and-slack/Lambda http://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ by Amazon http://aws.amazon.com/ was a service launched last year and was in preview until a few weeks ago https://aws.a...Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2016-02-02-a-month-with-no-job/https://dblooman.com/blog/2016-02-02-a-month-with-no-job/Sixteen days ago, I quit my job.Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2016-11-10-go-microservices-without-docker-say-whaaaaaat/https://dblooman.com/blog/2016-11-10-go-microservices-without-docker-say-whaaaaaat/Docker is pretty cool, lots of tools, big community and it goes quite nicely with Golang Go microservices. My company, FundApps, is a Fintec startup, we writ...Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2014-05-27-proxy-auth-in-phantomjs/https://dblooman.com/blog/2014-05-27-proxy-auth-in-phantomjs/I recently setup a Nginx proxy server on a UK based provider, this is to test UK centric features of the BBC News website. We use AWS for most of our tooling...Tue, 27 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2016-12-27-what-am-i-copy-and-pasting-into-my-dockerfile/https://dblooman.com/blog/2016-12-27-what-am-i-copy-and-pasting-into-my-dockerfile/It's pretty common that when you have no idea what you are doing, you want things to "just work". Docker, and by extension, Linux, have a world of documentat...Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2016-08-28-how-to-elb-with-alb/https://dblooman.com/blog/2016-08-28-how-to-elb-with-alb/Amazon recently announced its new load balancer, the Application Load Balancer ALB https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new aws application load balancer/ . This...Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2014-12-23-quick-uptime-tests/https://dblooman.com/blog/2014-12-23-quick-uptime-tests/We had a huge bug on the live site, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic , the navigation for our Asia edition was broken. Most of the links...Tue, 23 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2016-11-08-deploying-go-microservices-with-aws-codedeploy/https://dblooman.com/blog/2016-11-08-deploying-go-microservices-with-aws-codedeploy/We have a familiar story at FundApps https://www.fundapps.co/ , big monolith, trying to break into microservices, same old same old. We have a dotnet stack,...Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2016-09-04-lambda-deploys-with-apex/https://dblooman.com/blog/2016-09-04-lambda-deploys-with-apex/AWS Lambda https://aws.amazon.com/Lambda/details/ has been around for a couple of years, in that time the way in which you create and deploy functions has be...Sun, 04 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2017-09-10-deploying-to-a-vps-without-the-hassle/https://dblooman.com/blog/2017-09-10-deploying-to-a-vps-without-the-hassle/It's a question that gets asked with quite a lot of answers, Docker, Ansible, CodeDeploy, Chef, the list goes on. The idea should be simple, taking code from...Sun, 10 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2017-09-22-terraform-in-production-lessons-learned/https://dblooman.com/blog/2017-09-22-terraform-in-production-lessons-learned/Terraform has a lot of power, but often even heavy users of terraform miss some of the simple things that can make managing infrastructure easier than vendor...Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2016-10-09-cloudformation-updates-what-s-happened-since-you-started-using-terraform/https://dblooman.com/blog/2016-10-09-cloudformation-updates-what-s-happened-since-you-started-using-terraform/CloudFormation, the AWS specific infrastructure as code service, I don't use it anymore....but maybe I should. Maybe you should too.Sun, 09 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2017-02-07-cross-account-aws-lambda-deployments/https://dblooman.com/blog/2017-02-07-cross-account-aws-lambda-deployments/I recently talked at the Serverless London meetup https://www.meetup.com/Serverless London/events/236664340/ , I was asked about how we do cross AWS account...Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2016-09-11-consul-and-service-discovery-how-it-can-help/https://dblooman.com/blog/2016-09-11-consul-and-service-discovery-how-it-can-help/Consul https://www.consul.io/ is a tool I've been using the last few months to get a handle on our expanding platform. Consul is a tool built by Hashicorp to...Sun, 11 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2025_05_27-observability/https://dblooman.com/blog/2025_05_27-observability/Diagnosing performance issues in software can often feel more like detective work than engineering. In this post, we explore how tracing with OpenTelemetry helped us identify and resolve a critical bottleneck in our service, transforming our approach to observability and performance optimization.Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2026-01-02-golang-zero-value/https://dblooman.com/blog/2026-01-02-golang-zero-value/Exploring a subtle bug in Golang's pgx v5 library that led to silent data corruption due to zero values. This post delves into the issue, its implications, and how to avoid similar pitfalls in your Go applications.Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dblooman.com/blog/2026-08-26-openspec-for-humans/https://dblooman.com/blog/2026-08-26-openspec-for-humans/Why spec-driven development is useful to product managers, designers, and engineers, especially when AI can write the code.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT