Corey Scott
Principal Software Engineer at Grab & Ovo
How-to fix tightly coupled Go code
Have you ever added a new feature only to have another one break? After fixing the break, something else breaks, like some kind of bug whack-a-mole?
Have you ever...
Designing resilient systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 2)
This post can also be found on the Grab Engineering blog
This post is the second part of the series on Designing Resilient Systems. In Part 1, we looked...
Designing resilient systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 1)
This post can also be found on the Grab Engineering blog
This post is the first of a two-part series on Circuit Breakers and Retries, where we will introduce...
Testing External Services
There seems to have been a lot of talk around me lately in relation to "dev boxes" and "testing on staging".
After unsuccessfully trying to convince folks of why I think this is a bad...
Programmers Beware – UX is not just for designers
This post can also be found on the Grab Engineering blog
Perhaps one of the biggest missed opportunities in Tech in recent history is UX.
Somehow, UX became the domain...
You don’t need transactions
When I tell people, "No transactions!" their first reaction is either "he's mad" or "for my use-case its necessary".
I know this was my reaction when it was first said to me.
I happened to be working on a money...
5 IntelliJ Tricks for Gophers
A small collection of IntelliJ tips and tricks for getting more out of your day or simply doing the same amount for work with less effort.
1. Install the IntelliJ Go plugin from here
Enough said.
2....
You are not a Software Engineer (yet) #2
Ever hear the expression, the punishment should fit the crime?
How about, a proportionate response?
How about, to a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail?
Now, I'm not trying to implying that your...
You are not a Software Engineer (yet)
If you "write code" for a living, chances are you have a one time described yourself as a "Software Engineer". And chances are, you are not.Personally, I graduated with an Engineering (Software Systems) degree...
A couple of neat Go Tricks
Last week I was privileged to give a talk to the Singapore Gophers meet up held at the GrabTaxi Singapore Tech Office.
The talk was titled "Dependency Injecting (and Testing)" and was inspired by this great article...