In Beware of the Makefile Effect, the author defines the phrase as such: Tools of a certain complexity or routine unfamiliarity are not run de novo, but are instead copy-pasted and tweaked from previous known-good examples. If you read the article, you’ ll see that there are a number of…
Tom McFarlin
Strategies for Locally Developing Google Cloud Functions
For the last few months, I’ ve been doing a lot of work with Google Cloud Functions (along with a set of their other tools such as Cloud Storage, PubSub, and Cloud Jobs, etc.). The ability to build systems on top of Google’ s Cloud Platform (or GCP) is great….


