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Articles from Nicolas Girault

Theodo at the Barcelona Lean Summit

Nicolas Girault1 min read

At Theodo we always try to find a better way of doing things. We are strong advocates of the lean mindset but we know we still have a lot to learn...

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Straight to production with Docker, Ansible and CircleCI

Nicolas Girault6 min read

Docker shakes up the way we use to put into production. In this article I'll present the main obstacles I encountered to set up the production workflow...

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Speed up npm install with a local registry to cache packages

Nicolas Girault4 min read

Remember the last time you ran the npm install command, and you had time to grab three coffees, learn Russian and read Dostoievski before you could do anything productive? During the installation of a node app, the npm install step is…

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You want to do Scrum? Start with Daily Reports

Nicolas Girault5 min read

Who is your client? In every professional relation, you have a provider and a client. Whether she's your boss or the head of a company you're dealing with, the client is the one you are creating value for and she is…

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Functional testing in an environment of Flask micro-services

Nicolas Girault4 min read

Functionally Testing an API consists in calling its routes and checking that the response status and the content of the response are what you expect.

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Docker and Virtualenv? A clean way to locally install python dependencies with pip in Docker

Nicolas Girault2 min read

If you've ever developed a python application, you've probably installed your python dependencies in a virtualenv. Thanks to virtualenv your project dependencies are now isolated from your other projects and from the operating system packages. Simple, isn't it?

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