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I’m a veteran software engineer with more than 25 years of experience, ranging from coding Unix applications in C to crafting sleek .NET solutions and even blockchain and cryptographic solutions. Along the way, I’ve dabbled in everything from writing Windows drivers to streaming desktops as video feeds, game development, and now I’m exploring gRPC and Google Cloud hosting. When I’m not banging out code, I’m probably wrangling tech quirks or pondering the mysteries of management decisions and direction of technology in general.

 

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What value do you put on integration tests?

By Matt Raffel on September 08, 2025

During my one on one with my boss, my boss mentioned that most of engineering does not use our local development environments for testing their work.  He continued to explain that most eng...

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