Running your application in Kubernetes offers numerous advantages, one of the most significant is the HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA). This powerful tool enables automatic horizontal scaling of your application based on metrics. However, out of the box, Kubernetes provides only resource utilization metrics, such as CPU utilization and memory consumption. While these…

When creating applications (using product methodology in particular), each programmer, architect, or QA understands the importance of tech investments and the existence of a tech debt management process. …

Attributes are one of the new features of PHP 8.0. Attributes contain metadata for classes, fields and methods, which can be accessed using Reflection API. It sounds the same as annotations, what’s so special in this feature? The difference is how both are structured. Annotations are simply phpDoc strings, so…

This article was inspired by discussion of topics from Heisenbug 2021 (that is a russian QA convention) in our corporate chat. The reason is the fact that there are a lot of topics that target “proper” test design. …