How Cloud Academy Is Using Cube to Win the Data Challenge
Discover how Cloud Academy models and present a lot of data to both internal and external stakeholders through the usage of a Headless BI tool.
Engineering at Cloud Academy
How Do We Transform and Model Data at Cloud Academy?
Discover how we extract data from our sources and implement dbt in order to transform and model data used by our business users.
Mocking Dependencies on Component Testing
Using the Cohn version of the Testing Pyramid on a microservices architecture, with examples on GitHub.
Front End Testing 101 at Cloud Academy
First, why do we need tests? Let's suppose you are a developer. Now let's suppose you are a front-end developer. Imagine that you have been recent...
Data Engineering & Business Intelligence – An Exciting Quest
I can clearly remember that moment when our VP of Engineering came to me saying, “Our data and reporting are a mess.” At that moment, we admitted t...
Mastering AWS Organizations Service Control Policies
Service Control Policies (SCPs) are IAM-like policies to manage permissions in AWS Organizations. SCPs restrict the actions allowed for accounts wi...
GraphQL/Graphene: How to Solve the N+1 Problem With DataLoaders
One of the common problems dealing with RESTful APIs is to choose where and how to aggregate resource data coming from different endpoints, even di...
A Day in the Life of a Front-End Engineer at Cloud Academy (When There’s Not a Pandemic) #DevStories
It’s a typical Monday morning, and I am about to get off the TILO train that takes me to Cloud Academy’s offices in Mendrisio every morning. It’...
Our Journey to GraphQL
Here at Cloud Academy, we have recently been evolving our back-end architecture. We took the path toward a microservices architecture, and we’re st...