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marekdedic

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Re:Ask HN: How do you work with Dependabot? on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:47AM (#32437053)
I use it in 2 different ways depending on the project.

1) For more important projects I have high test coverage (over 95%) and integration tests. In this setting, I have dependabot set to check once a week and the PRs get automatically merged if everything works. I have never had a problem with this setup, if the update breaks something, the tests fail and I get to fix it manually.

2) For less important projects without CD, I usually merge dev dependencies and minor versions by hand if there isn't something obviously wrong in the CI. Yeah, there's a risk it breaks something, but I can fix that before a release - obviously these are projects that only get worked on occasionally. Major versions I usually check manually before merging.

I think the ultimate answer is good testing as part of CI. Either you trust your tests and then I think it's ok to auto-merge, or you don't and then all bets are of...

Re:Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:17AM (#25476475)
Yeah, same story here with Google Drive API. My app is getting rate limited, even though I am nowhere near the maximum requests per 100s. Just requesting things in bursts makes it trip. When you chat with support (not easy given that it's Google...), they usually refuse to make your quota higher because they don't see you hitting the current limit even remotely...