Artistry of Code

Grzegorz Godlewski, Marek Urbanowicz and Artur Wolny

The IT podcast where Grzegorz Godlewski, Artur Wolny and Marek Urbanowicz, together with their guests, talk about topics related to the world of IT. We are looking for ways of doing things right and having fun with it doing so. Software, architecture, soft skills, teamwork (and other, crazy, buzzwords).

  1. 14/07/2023 · VIDEO

    #023: Innovation vs. Expertise: Tech Decision Challenges

    📚 ABOUT THE EPISODESoftware projects are filled with all these hard decisions. Deciding between making use of a known technology or pattern versus picking something entirely new is one of the most difficult and impactful ones. In this episode, Grzegorz Godlewski, Artur Wolny and Marek Urbanowicz discuss how they approach this particular type of decision. Tune in for valuable insights!📑 TOPICS COVERED👉 When we think it's good to go with the solutions we already know👉 What are the benefits of embracing the unknown👉 What are the factors you should take into account while making such decisions👉 Considering the macro, impact of the decision on your and other teams⌚ TIMELINE00:00:00 - Intro00:01:24 - Examples of choices we had to make00:05:24 - What can drive the decision making process00:10:00 - Unknown as a possibility for learning00:13:59 - Proof of Concept implementations - a way to explore00:19:30 - When would we go for "the new" solution to a problem00:23:52 - When would we stay with "the known" solution to a problem00:27:04 - Wrap up🔗 LINKS FROM EPISODEhttps://twitter.com/GregBDavies/status/1144530496078123009🤝 CONTACT US / COLLABORATIONIf you:- want to send us your valuable feedback- you would like to appear on the show as a guest- you would like to help out the show to grow- you would like to sponsor the showThen please contact us via: podcast@artistryofcode.comYou can also check out our website: https://artistryofcode.com😍 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtistryOfCodeTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtistryOfCodeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/artistry-of-codeReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistryOfCode/Grzegorz GodlewskiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggodlewski/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GGodlewskiMarek UrbanowiczLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-urbanowicz-0ba65254/Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrbanowiczDevArtur WolnyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wolny-35150664/

    28 min

  2. 11/05/2023 · VIDEO

    #022: Monorepos: The Good and Bad

    📚 ABOUT THE EPISODEAre you considering moving to Monorepos with your projects? In the 22th episode Grzegorz, Artur and Marek share their valueable opinions and experiences realted to working with these. Tune in to learn about the potential benefits and challenges of this approach.📑 TOPICS COVERED👉 We share subjective opinions and experiences from working with Monorepos in the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem👉 We talk about hidden complexity - when a "simplification" on one end results with higher complexity in other areas 👉 We comment on the state of tooling for Monorepos specific in the JS/TS ecosystem⌚ TIMELINE00:00:00 - Intro00:01:12 - Subjective opinions on Monorepos00:03:58 - Benefits and challenges of Monorepos00:26:20 - Recap and closing thoughts🤝 CONTACT US / COLLABORATIONIf you:- want to send us your valuable feedback- you would like to appear on the show as a guest- you would like to help out the show to grow- you would like to sponsor the showThen please contact us via: podcast@artistryofcode.comYou can also check out our website: https://artistryofcode.com😍 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtistryOfCodeTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtistryOfCodeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/artistry-of-codeReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistryOfCode/Grzegorz GodlewskiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggodlewski/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GGodlewskiMarek UrbanowiczLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-urbanowicz-0ba65254/Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrbanowiczDevArtur WolnyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wolny-35150664/

    30 min

  3. 26/03/2023 · VIDEO

    #021: What went wrong with Microservices

    📚 ABOUT THE EPISODEIn the 21th episode Grzegorz Godlewski and Artur Wolny share their negative experiences with implementing Microservices. Three examples of misuse of that useful pattern shows us that even the greatest idea can lead us down the blind alley, when we are narrow-minded about it.Listen and take conclusions from those lessons that we learned! 📑 TOPICS COVERED👉 Impact of blindly following recommendations: costly premature optimisations.👉 Thing that might go wrong when you're focused too much on domain assignment of feature and too less on the app maintainability.👉 How microservice hype-trains and poor organisational decisions lead to project failure. ⌚ TIMELINE00:00:00 - Intro00:02:08 - Story #1: Blindly following recommendations.00:08:22 - Story #2: Too much domain, too little maintainability.00:14:20 - Story #3: Microservice hype-train.00:19:15 - Microservices or monolith? Benefits & drawbacks.00:34:46 - Outro🤝 CONTACT US / COLLABORATIONIf you:- want to send us your valuable feedback- you would like to appear on the show as a guest- you would like to help out the show to grow- you would like to sponsor the showThen please contact us via: podcast@artistryofcode.comYou can also check out our website: https://artistryofcode.com😍 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtistryOfCodeTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtistryOfCodeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/artistry-of-codeReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistryOfCode/Grzegorz GodlewskiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggodlewski/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GGodlewskiMarek UrbanowiczLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-urbanowicz-0ba65254/Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrbanowiczDevArtur WolnyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wolny-35150664/

    36 min

  4. 19/01/2023 · VIDEO

    #020: Continuous Deployment

    📚 ABOUT THE EPISODEIn the 20th episode of the main series Grzegorz Godlewski, Marek Urbanowicz and Artur Wolny discuss their experiences and preferences regarding the implementation of Continuous Deployment. With this episode we complete our micro-series focused on CI/CD implementation. We strongly believe that all code should hit production as soon as possible, as frequently as possible in a reliable, repeatable and  automated manner.Tune in for experience and inspiration! 🎧📑 TOPICS COVERED👉 How implementing Continuous Delivery can benefit your team & product, optimizing costs and shortening the feedback loop👉 What it takes to have a successful CD implementation👉 Some tools/products which you might consider for your implementation⌚ TIMELINE00:00:00 - Intro00:01:21 - How do we define Continuous Deployment00:05:20 - Benefits of Continuous Deployment00:13:21 - Challenges and requirements for CD implementation00:21:54 - Tools which you can use to build CD 00:30:49 - Outro🤝 CONTACT US / COLLABORATIONIf you:- want to send us your valuable feedback- you would like to appear on the show as a guest- you would like to help out the show to grow- you would like to sponsor the showThen please contact us via: podcast@artistryofcode.comYou can also check out our website: https://artistryofcode.com😍 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtistryOfCodeTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtistryOfCodeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/artistry-of-codeReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistryOfCode/Grzegorz GodlewskiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggodlewski/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GGodlewskiMarek UrbanowiczLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-urbanowicz-0ba65254/Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrbanowiczDevArtur WolnyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wolny-35150664/

    32 min

  5. 05/12/2022 · VIDEO

    #019: Benefits of Continuous Integration

    📚 ABOUT THE EPISODEIn the 19th episode of the main series Grzegorz Godlewski, Marek Urbanowicz and Artur Wolny discuss their experiences and preferences regarding the implementation of Continuous Integration. We really encourage you to give this episode a listen, as we're sure that having a great CI implementation is key to launching products faster and with better developer experience!  Tune in for experience and inspiration! 🎧📑 TOPICS COVERED👉 The common misconception about Continuous Integration 👉 How implementing Continuous Integration can benefit your team & product👉 What it takes to have a successful CI implementation👉 Some tools/products which you might consider for your implementation⌚ TIMELINE00:00:00 - Intro00:01:19 - How do we define Continuous Integration00:05:59 - The benefits of Continuous Integration00:16:20 - Challenges and requirements for CI00:23:36 - CI tools for pipelines (NodeJS)00:29:19 - Wrap up🔗 LINKS FROM THE EPISODEContinuous Delivery by Jez Humble and Dave Farleyhttps://martinfowler.com/books/continuousDelivery.htmlBulb light indicatorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_light_indicator🤝 CONTACT US / COLLABORATIONIf you:- want to send us your valuable feedback- you would like to appear on the show as a guest- you would like to help out the show to grow- you would like to sponsor the showThen please contact us via: podcast@artistryofcode.comYou can also check out our website: https://artistryofcode.com😍 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtistryOfCodeTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtistryOfCodeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/artistry-of-codeReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistryOfCode/Grzegorz GodlewskiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggodlewski/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GGodlewskiMarek UrbanowiczLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-urbanowicz-0ba65254/Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrbanowiczDevArtur WolnyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wolny-35150664/

    31 min

  6. 16/11/2022 · VIDEO

    #018: Implementing background jobs

    📚 ABOUT THE EPISODEWelcome to the 18th episode of the main series!This time Grzegorz Godlewski and Marek Urbanowicz met up to discuss their experience and recommendations on implementing background jobs. Any system which is growing in scale, will need those at some point either to implement performance improvements (by putting some work into the background) or new business requirements (which are supposed to run in background). Tune in for insights on how this can be done! 🎧📑 TOPICS COVERED👉 How simple business analysis can help you in determining candidates for background jobs👉 What software architecture patterns come in handy while implementing them👉 What are the best practices for reliable implementations👉 Some tools/products which you might consider for your implementation⌚ TIMELINE00:00 - Intro01:14 - How to identify candidates for background jobs08:28 - Employ the transactional outbox pattern11:53 - Dealing with state in background jobs15:29 - Scheduling and processing batched operations18:40 - Avoiding state with Event Carried State Transfer pattern21:14 - Silver bullets and golden hammers - the tooling28:08 - Emphasis on idempotency🔗 LINKS FROM THE EPISODEM. Fowler: What do you mean by “Event-Driven”?https://martinfowler.com/articles/201701-event-driven.htmlTransactional outbox pattern descriptionhttps://microservices.io/patterns/data/transactional-outbox.htmlBullMQhttps://docs.bullmq.io/RabbitMQ Delayed Message Pluginhttps://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-delayed-message-exchangeTemporal:https://temporal.io/🤝 CONTACT US / COLLABORATIONIf you:- want to send us your valuable feedback- you would like to appear on the show as a guest- you would like to help out the show to grow- you would like to sponsor the showThen please contact us via: podcast@artistryofcode.comYou can also check out our website: https://artistryofcode.com😍 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtistryOfCodeTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtistryOfCodeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/artistry-of-codeReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistryOfCode/Grzegorz GodlewskiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggodlewski/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GGodlewskiMarek UrbanowiczLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-urbanowicz-0ba65254/Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrbanowiczDevArtur WolnyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wolny-35150664/

    30 min

  7. 25/10/2022 · VIDEO

    #017: Why you should write Unit Tests

    📚 ABOUT THE EPISODEWelcome to the 17th episode of the main series!This time we reach the bottom of the Test Pyramid, focusing on the most common type of test: the Unit Test. As big fans of TDD (Test Driven Development) we happily discuss our experiences and approaches. We cover proven benefits which you could use as support material in introducing the practice of Unit Testing and TDD in your organization or day-to-day work.Tune in for new stream of inspiration! 🎧📑 TOPICS COVERED👉 How unit testing can be beneficial for individuals and organizations👉 The do's and don'ts of unit testing👉 How to write testble code👉 Some mocking libraries for NodeJS which you might want to try out⌚ TIMELINE00:00 - Intro01:35 - To be clear: how do we define Unit Tests05:02 - Sound reasons for why we write Unit Tests12:38 - To mock, or not to mock?20:58 - Writing testable code27:02 - Wrap up🔗 LINKS FROM THE EPISODEts-mockito mocking libraryhttps://www.npmjs.com/package/@johanblumenberg/ts-mockitojest-mock-extended mocking libraryhttps://www.npmjs.com/package/jest-mock-extendedinversify library for dependency injectionhttps://www.npmjs.com/package/inversify🤝 CONTACT US / COLLABORATIONIf you:- want to send us your valuable feedback- you would like to appear on the show as a guest- you would like to help out the show to grow- you would like to sponsor the showThen please contact us via: podcast@artistryofcode.comYou can also check out our website: https://artistryofcode.com😍 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtistryOfCodeTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtistryOfCodeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/artistry-of-codeReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistryOfCode/Grzegorz GodlewskiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggodlewski/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GGodlewskiMarek UrbanowiczLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-urbanowicz-0ba65254/Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrbanowiczDevArtur WolnyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wolny-35150664/

    28 min

  8. 04/10/2022 · VIDEO

    #016: Tips on integration testing

    📚 ABOUT THE EPISODEWelcome to the 16th episode! We continue our step-down and share with you our understanding of integration tests and best practices we've learned when implementing them. In the IT world full of APIs, SaaS and databases, checking how your code collaborate with third parties is a must have.Want to know our way of integration testing? Just press play  🎧📑 TOPICS COVERED👉 Learn about our opinions on integration testing👉 What NodeJS community is doing wrong in integration tests👉 Get useful hints from people who implement integration tests on a daily basis👉 Learn about the pros of having your code collaboration tested👉 Learn when to favour integration testing over E2E or unit testing⌚ TIMELINE00:00:00 - Intro00:00:56 - What is our definition of integration testing?00:06:50 - Why do we need integration tests?00:14:06 - When do we favour integration tests over E2E tests? 00:21:37 - What tools we use for integration testing in Node? 00:25:44 - How to make your integration tests robust and solid stable?00:29:15 - Wrap up🤝 CONTACT US / COLLABORATIONIf you:- want to send us your valuable feedback- you would like to appear on the show as a guest- you would like to help out the show to grow- you would like to sponsor the showThen please contact us via: podcast@artistryofcode.comYou can also check out our website: https://artistryofcode.com😍 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtistryOfCodeTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtistryOfCodeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/artistry-of-codeReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistryOfCode/Grzegorz GodlewskiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggodlewski/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GGodlewskiMarek UrbanowiczLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-urbanowicz-0ba65254/Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrbanowiczDevArtur WolnyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wolny-35150664/

    30 min
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The IT podcast where Grzegorz Godlewski, Artur Wolny and Marek Urbanowicz, together with their guests, talk about topics related to the world of IT. We are looking for ways of doing things right and having fun with it doing so. Software, architecture, soft skills, teamwork (and other, crazy, buzzwords).

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  • Creator
    Grzegorz Godlewski, Marek Urbanowicz and Artur Wolny
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
    28
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2022 Artistry of Code
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