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Septimal Mind Blog

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Septimal Mind Blog is the company blog at blog.7mind.io, writing about programming. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Unit, Functional, Integration? You are doing it wrong”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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11mentions?
6HN people?
2019–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this Septimal Mind blog for its write-up on a constructive test taxonomy. One commenter suggests it as worth reading in a thread on testing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Unit, Functional, Integration? You are doing it wrong
    3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-11-10
  2. Monorepo or Multirepo? Role-Based Repositories
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. All true, though monoliths themselves aren't a good alternative. The real alternative is "Roles". Here are my old slides about our DI tool for Scala, implementing Roles: https://github.com/7mind/slides/blob/master/02-roles/roles.p... And a couple of talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o65sKWnFyk0 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzpvjkUukAs And another post about the same approach from another prospective (monor…

    Comment linking /role-based-repositories.html

    on “Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend”
  2. Submitted Monorepo or Multirepo? Role-Based Repositories as a story · 141 points

    HN discussion
  3. Huggernaut · 2020-07-07Recommends
    You may enjoy this write up on testing taxonomy: https://blog.7mind.io/constructive-test-taxonomy.html

    Comment linking /constructive-test-taxonomy.html

    on “Against Testing”
  4. Submitted Unit, Functional, Integration? You are doing it wrong as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  5. > and interact with them using their well-defined and correctly-behaving interfaces, you won't need to read the code. Don't you want determinism and deterministic simultations? If you do, you'll also need stub implementations (mocks, dummies) for your interfaces. Some notes on that: https://blog.7mind.io/constructive-test-taxonomy.html > A time may come when you need to separate out services. Most likely it won't if…

    Comment linking /constructive-test-taxonomy.html

    on “You Want Modules, Not Microservices”
  6. Submitted Unit, Functional, Integration? You are doing it wrong as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted What Is an Effect in Functional Programming as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Constructive Test Taxonomy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Monorepo or Multirepo? Role-Based Repositories as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Lightweight Reflection for Scala and Scala.js and the Future of TypeTag in Dotty as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted No More Orphans (Scala) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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