Ep 043: What Is 'Faking' a Resource?

Functional Design in Clojure

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This week, the question is: "What is 'faking' a resource?" We talk about the virtues of faking and then outline several real techniques for getting work done.

Selected quotes:

• "We like to mock mocking, so don't mock us if we mock mocking."
• "No object is an island, they always refer to each other."

• "It's all about getting work done."
• "Why make my own fake data when the computer is so good at it?"
• "It's like training a small diminutive version of the external service to behave in the ways you want it to so you can get stuff done."
• "Fake it while you make it."

Related episodes

• 014: Fiddle with the REPL
• 025: Fake Results, Real Speed