Category Archives: Automation

Infrastructure as Code – Key Terms

There’s an excellent introductory series on Terraform over at Gruntwork, and apart from anything else it has a very clear introduction to what the different tools in this space do. I recommend the blog, but here’s a quick summary of … Continue reading

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Automated FpML Message Testing with JMeter

One of the ingredients of a successful messaging project is strong testing. However, the fluid nature of messaging projects means iteration after iteration of system releases. This presents a challenge for the testers and they need to run the tests … Continue reading

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Automating TICK: Using the TICK API for Reporting

I like TICK for its clean and intuitive user interface, but my organisation uses “day” as the time period for budgets whereas TICK reports everything by the hour. So I needed my own app to take TICK report hours and … Continue reading

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