Travis J. Gosselin Software Developer, Architect & Speaker

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Dependabot native has been around for a couple years now after GitHub officially acquired it in 2019. But if I google "Dependabot" I still generally find myself at the "Dependabot.com" home-page, and up until last week found myself still using...

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AWS Account Granularity The growth of SPS Commerce has continued to be very strong, even amidst the recent global pandemic, as we work to provide an enabler for essential services. The demand for SPS services and products continues to grow...

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I'm going to assume that you already buy into the advantages of unit testing your code, and the merits of doing so don't need to be enumerated in yet another article. Perhaps more interesting and unique in today's software development...

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What is AWS X-Ray? X-Ray is AWS's cloud-native service for distributed tracing. It provides real-time visualization of service maps based on traffic flowing through the applications. X-Ray allows for both pushing and pulling of its trace data into X-Ray. This...

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Feature Flags Like many engineering teams, SPS Commerce has been on a journey to Agile and DevOps over the past decade. Consistently, one of the strongest enablers to a more frictionless DevOps culture and experience has been the decoupling of...

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If your anything like the rest of the DEV teams in the world you know doubt have had some exposure to dealing with TLS 1.2 support for the many dependencies and applications you integrate with. There is a strong likelihood...

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Problem No matter what language or package manager, dependency management in most projects suffer from many of the same problems: Evaluating incoming security risks associated with packages in your project never really happens.Latest dependencies are added when a project starts,...

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If you have or plan on doing anything constructive with your log output from a default ASP.NET Core Web Application you have probably come quickly to the conclusion that the default logging leaves a lot to be desired! Just take...

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Certain AWS components (and cloud components in general) do amazing jobs at simplifying our lives as developers who just want their infrastructure to be there. I can have a first-class layer 7 load balancer ready to use in my application...

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I once again had the opportunity to present at the Brampton DevOps / Cloud Computing Meeting. This session was focused on a series of rapid-fire lightning talks. There were a few really great talks on "Automating Legacy" and "Next.js with...