Schembri on Software
Jamie Schembri
A freelance software engineer in the Netherlands with a focus on building value. I'm Jamie. Pleased to meet you! I'm an English/Maltese man on the wrong side of thirty, and I live in the Netherlands with my wife and three dogs. My day job is as a freelance software engineer, primarily with Ruby on Rails. I've worked with everything from tiny agencies to multi-national corporations, which has made me rather versatile.
September 2026
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All posts (38)
One of our servers recently experienced an issue in that its disk usage was consistently growing to illogical, unmanageable proportions. This would trigger an OpsGenie alert and wake me up, so in a groggy state I'd delete some extraneous log files (we log a lot), promise myself to look into it tomorrow, and go back...
Testing API calls is a little bit hairy. We can assume that the API will return the results specified in their documentation, but we'd still like to see what our API client returns; this may differ considerably from what the API itself gives us. The last thing we want to do is hit the actual endpoints: this is slow,...
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