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Integration Testing in Flutter: Part I

Joe Riddle — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:59:00 +0000

Here at IntelliTect, we love building mobile apps. We’re quite fond of frameworks like Flutter, Xamarin, and .NET MAUI that help developers create native mobile apps with a single codebase, helping you launch your next app into the app store faster. Building an app? Give us a call! I recently worked on an app using Flutter…

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Observing Python: An Introduction to OpenTelemetry Metrics

Joe Riddle — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:14:31 +0000

Python is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. OpenTelemetry is a modern collection of tools and specifications for adding telemetry to your software. Today we’re going to learn about using OpenTelemetry with Python. Pillars of Observability Designing a software application to be observable is table stakes in modern software development. Observability is a…

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Shift Left with Type Hints in Python

Joe Riddle — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:40:57 +0000

Squashing Bugs Earlier and More Often with Python’s Type Hints Shifting left is the idea that you can reduce the cost of bugs by discovering and fixing (shifting) them earlier in the development process. Fixing a bug right after it’s written is far cheaper than after a pull request has been reviewed, merged, and deployed…

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Employee Spotlight: Kevin Bost

Joe Riddle — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:59:17 +0000

A Biker With an Affinity for Mentoring "Thirty miles per hour – it turns out at that speed, you don’t hit pavement," Kevin said. "You get launched into the park." Kevin and his wife, Heather, love taking motorcycle trips. Kevin Bost hurtled through the air, a limp rag-doll in a helmet. Time slowed. He drew…

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