Tag: Miscellaneous
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Understanding the difference between grid-template and grid-auto
Posted on October 23, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Dawid Kunicki article about working with Flutter and getting out first app written in it. Taken from Android developer perspective. Flutter is a new technology that is clearly gaining more and more popularity among mobile developers.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design miscellaneous
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JVM Profiler: open source tool for tracing distributed JVM applications at scale
Posted on October 14, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Bo Yang, Nan Zhu, Felix Cheung, Xu Ning from Uber Engineering team published blog post about JVM Profiles. Data is at the heart of strategic decision-making process at Uber. Right sizing the resources allocated to Spark applications and optimizing the operational efficiency of Uber data infrastructure requires fine-grained insights about these systems, namely their resource usage patterns.
Tags software-engineering backend-development architecture-and-apis miscellaneous devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Fifty data structure and algorithms interview questions for programmers
Posted on October 13, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Excellent list of curated interview questions for programmers by javinpaul. Many of programmers interviewing in large technology companies have no idea of what kind of programming interview questions to expect when you're applying. In this article author shares frequently asked programming interview questions from different interviews for programmers at different levels of experience, from people who have just graduated from college to programmers with one to two years of experience.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Intuitive explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks
Posted on September 29, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An older article by jjwalkarn about Convolutional Neural Networks. Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets or CNNs) are a category of Neural Networks that have proven very effective in areas such as image recognition and classification.
Tags miscellaneous data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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Learn how to create a Python GUI with PyQt5
Posted on September 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tutorial by Michael Herrmann explains how you can use PyQt5 to build a desktop app with Python. It covers everything from the best way to set up PyQt in 2018, to compiling your app and distributing it to other people's computers.
Tags backend-development miscellaneous software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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Six layout myths busted
Posted on September 20, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An older article encapsulating thoughts by Jen Simmons on topic of six layout myth. Every website reaches for an identical 12-column symmetrical grid. Every site uses the same shapes and patterns over and over. And we are totally bored.
Tags product-and-design miscellaneous frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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Beginner's guide to designing smart chatbots
Posted on September 15, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Vaibhav Verma, an User Experience Designer at Haptik, about his experience with designing the smart chatbots over 4 years period. He has designed more than 50 chatbots across various domains and use cases.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning backend-development miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design
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Using Behave framework for Selenium BDD testing
Posted on September 4, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Dzmitry Ihnatsyeu published by guys from BlazeMeter about automating the testing of an application. There are many ways of testing -- like unit testing, test-driven development, keyword-driven development, behavior-driven development and so on. In this article, autho talks about one of the most popular approaches to test automation -- BDD or behavior-driven development.
Tags testing-and-quality software-engineering miscellaneous leadership-and-career backend-development devops-and-ci-cd
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Step-by-Step guide to building a quick Q&A chatbot
Posted on August 31, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Tutorial by Purna Virji about starting with chatbots or virtual assistants. Chatbots, infobots, socialbots, salesbots, superbots! Bots are a great way to help serve your customers, build your business, and cut down costs.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning backend-development miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure
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AI & blockchain, an introduction
Posted on August 15, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Matt Turck produced this post about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain. His goal was to provide a broad introduction to the topic and feed the discussion why the topic matters in the first place, and highlight the work of some interesting companies in the space.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech how-to leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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What you need to consider before building a fintech product
Posted on August 8, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Blog post by Artur Bachynskyi with some advice on topic of fintech products. Financial technology aka fintech is a popular start-up sector for entrepreneurs, as more and more people are striving for financial literacy. The shift to treating one's finances more intelligently has led the creators to apply the principles of human-centered design (HCD) when developing fintech products.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech how-to miscellaneous software-engineering
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8 best practices for perfect CSS documentation
Posted on July 29, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Adriana De La Cuadra article about best pracices for CSS documentation. In the world of CSS, documentation is underused. Since documentation is not visible to the end user, its value is often overlooked by clients.
Tags frontend-and-mobile miscellaneous