I think it is an uncontroversial statement to say testing is important in software development. Writing tests may not always be fun, but nothing is a sweet as that moment when a unit test catches a bug before you deploy. In OpenFaaS we have tons of tests in each project, even the certifier itself runs a short suite of end-to-end tests. But, not all of our function templates have first class testing support.

An event-driven architecture can let you seamlessly extend your application or improve the scalability, if you can handle the eventual consistency. But your app may not be ready for this yet, or you don’t own the code in the app. A recently added a feature to faasd got me thinking about event driven architecture powered by the Postgres WAL. Which means we can seamlessly extend your app without needing to change the app!

This post will show you how to quickly deploy Postgresql along with an event listener and some custom functions. From there it’s up to you what you build.

Fixing the Dell XPS arrow keys using XKB

Quick walktrhough for how to move your Docker and Multipass data folders.

A quick review of GitHub Actions and how to use them for CI/CD of your OpenFaaS Functions

Creating an isolated OpenFaaS Development environment with KinD

A brief reminder that go will default to testing packages in parallel

Extending API response in a Go server by using struct embedding

Extending API response in a Go server by using struct embedding

I ran into many headaches while I was trying to deploy a private registry in a Docker Swarm to use with OpenFaaS. I want to share some of those issues and how I finally got it working.