How we made our frontend component-test CI pipeline almost 10× faster in two phases — through sharding, Kubernetes limits, OOM kills, flaky tests, and finally a shared browser context that failed on the first attempt and, on the second, exposed four classes of leaks we had no idea about.
How to run a PHP project in Docker on the WSL 2 backend and debug it remotely with Xdebug in IntelliJ — plus the five hurdles I had to clear along the way, from a dynamic host IP to Windows Firewall and path mappings.
A practical guide to fast in-memory Web API testing in .NET Core 3 — spinning up a WebApplicationFactory, wiring an in-memory database, bypassing JWT authentication, ordering tests, and asserting responses with snapshot testing.