How I became a GitLab contributor to fix an issue in our project's CI/CD pipeline

28 April 2022 Stefano Tenuta

14 minute read

During these months at Facile.it I had to face many challenges regarding the improvement of CI/CD pipelines for the Insurance team, with a strong focus on performance and reusability. The focus on these topics is very important as it allows us to follow GitLab best practices for CI/CD such as the fail fast principle.

On Living Documentation

16 March 2022 Veronica Bolognesi

10 minute read

Today I want to talk about living documentation, having just finished the aptly-named book by Cyrille Martraire, Living Documentation: continuous knowledge sharing by design, published by Pearson.

Write the Docs Prague 2021

20 October 2021 Marta Gilberti

4 minute read

Facile.it’s Technical Writing team attended the Write the Docs Prague 2021 conference which was held from 3rd to 5th October 2021. While the conference was usually held in the capital of the Czech Republic, for the second year in a row it was held remotely due to Covid-19 restrictions. In this article we will provide a quick overview of the event.

Technical Writers: the mystery unveiled

1 September 2021 Marta Gilberti

10 minute read

Let’s face it, being a technical writer (especially in Italy) makes you feel a bit like Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother: no one knows what your real job is. If you’re a tech writer, we bet you have at least one relative who, at every family gathering, asks you “What do you exactly do for a living?". In the most desperate cases, even your mom doesn’t know what your job is!

How to write a functional test with Symfony and Guzzle's mock handler

10 June 2021 Carlo Cappai

5 minute read

When we write a client to integrate an API in our systems it is important to test it to be sure we can handle every possible response. Guzzle client provides a very simple way to mock external APIs responses: Guzzle Mock Handler. This tool provides a mock handler that can be used to fulfill HTTP requests with a response or exception by shifting return values off of a queue.