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Designing Agentic Development Workflows

What an agentic development workflow is: a phased procedure that makes a model's work inspectable and interruptible, and the parts it is built from.

1. Part 1 What a workflow is, and what it is made of
2. Part 2 Principles for a workflow you can trust
3. Part 3 The cost of control
4. Part 4 Is it working, and is it worth it
5. Part 5 Shipping it, porting it, letting it run
6. Part 6 Where it hurts, and what to build first

• ai
• agents
• workflows
• automation
• claude-code

Secrets management at scale with HashiCorp Vault

HashiCorp Vault in production at Fyber, plus the open-source hashi-tools library that hands each service short-lived, least-privilege credentials at runtime.

• hashicorp
• fyber
• vault
• consul
• scala
• open-source

Syncing Kubernetes services with HashiCorp Consul

Sync Consul with Kubernetes services using consul-helm: the chart values that matter, reaching the Consul HTTP API, and resolving the domain in CoreDNS.

• kubernetes
• consul
• hashicorp

Behavior-driven Tests for JEE with JBehave

JBehave and Thucydides for BDD on a JEE web app: the terminology that matters, how the toolchain fits together, and the 'Volcano' stories used throughout.

1. Part 1 Terminology, tools and the 'Volcano' stories
2. Part 2 Writing stories and Java implementation
3. Part 3 Automating tests and generating reports

• jee
• java
• jbehave
• bdd
• automation
• tests

Development & Delivery with jGit-flow and Jenkins

The jgit-flow Maven plugin, Jira and Jenkins Pipeline as a single delivery workflow: what each tool owns, and how git-flow maps onto your real releases.

1. Part 1 Tools and planning
2. Part 2 Git workflow with jGit-flow
3. Part 3 Delivery with Jenkins Pipeline

• jira
• jenkins
• pipeline
• git-flow
• jgit-flow
• ci/cd
• release
• deployment
• maven

Tuning Akka for Actor-based Systems

Akka dispatcher tuning: how many actor instances to run, which routing strategy fits which load, and how to size the fork-join and thread-pool executors.

1. Part 1 Initial Akka configurations
2. Part 2 Gathering and analyzing metrics with Kamon

• scala
• akka

Stackable Traits in Scala

Scala's stackable traits pattern, built step by step into a layered error-reporting design, with the trait stack, linearisation order and runnable code.

1. Part 1 Error-reporting design
2. Part 2 Gathering metrics with stackable actors

• scala
• stackable
• traits