Tag: Software engineering
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Deploy Fedora CoreOS servers with Terraform
Posted on December 29, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Fedora CoreOS is a lightweight, secure operating system optimized for running containerized workloads. A YAML document is all you need to describe the workload you'd like to run on a Fedora CoreOS server. By Nathan Smith @fedoramagazine.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering
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How to build with Terraform: Azure VMs (Windows)
Posted on December 27, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Have you created an Azure VM via the Azure portal before? If so, how many clicks did it take to do that? Can you do it, again and again, providing the exact same input values to ensure you meet a specific standard? Probably not. You need to automate the process. Create Azure VMs with Terraform! By Adam Bertram.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd product-and-design frontend-and-mobile software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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TypeScript compilation performance best practices
Posted on December 26, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
There are easy ways to configure TypeScript to ensure faster compilations and editing experiences. The earlier that these practices can be adopted, the better. By Daniel Rosenwasser.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design software-engineering
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How to optimize large scale serverless applications for operational excellence
Posted on December 25, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Managing applications at scale often comes up as one of the biggest concerns for businesses; How can it work smoothly? How do we monitor so many resources? By Taavi Rehemägi.
Tags architecture-and-apis software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd
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NULL values in SQL queries
Posted on December 24, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This post is about NULL values in SQL, and comes courtesy of my friend and database wizard, Kaley. You should check out his website if you'd like to learn more about SQL, Oracle database, and making queries run faster. By Mitchum.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development software-engineering
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Getting started with distributed TensorFlow on GCP
Posted on December 22, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
For many in the world of data science, distributed training can seem a daunting task. In addition to building and thoughtfully evaluating a high-quality ML model, you have to be aware of how to optimize your model for specific hardware and manage infrastructure. By Nikita Namjoshi.
Tags data-and-analytics software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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Modelling the time-of-arrival using distributions
Posted on December 21, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Estimating the time-of-arrival is a common problem in a wide range of settings, e.g. in logistics. This post will show a distribution-based approach that enables us to get more insights about arrival times and how we could use this information for decision-making in the logistics industry. By Jonas Laake.
Tags data-and-analytics software-engineering
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How to break the product backlog
Posted on December 20, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
How breaking down your product backlog can help your team create great products. By Filipe Rigueiro.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Developing micro-microservices in C on Red Hat OpenShift
Posted on December 16, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
For optimal runtime resource usage and millisecond startup times, though, it remains hard to beat C. Comparatively few people in the IT industry have experience implementing middleware components in C. This fact is ironic because C is an ideal vehicle for implementing truly micro microservices. By Kevin Boone.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile product-and-design software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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The last guide to the useEffect Hook you'll ever need
Posted on December 14, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Understanding how the useEffect Hook works is one of the most important concepts for mastering React today. If you have been working with React for several years, it is especially crucial to understand how working with useEffect differs from working with the lifecycle methods of class-based components. In fact, it is a wholesale shift in mindset! By Sebastian Weber.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design software-engineering
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How to install PHP 8 on Ubuntu 20.04
Posted on December 12, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
PHP is one of the most widely used server-side programming languages. Many popular CMS and frameworks such as WordPress, Magento, and Laravel are written in PHP. PHP 8.0 is the latest major release of the PHP language. It introduces several breaking changes, performance improvements, and lots of new features such as named arguments, JIT compiler, union types, match expression, and more. By linuxize.com.
Tags backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile product-and-design software-engineering
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Sprint planning checklist
Posted on December 2, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
A Sprint Planning checklist? How dare you: Agile is a mindset, not a methodology. It is a journey, not a destination. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, and what else could you possibly cover with a checklist, the mother of all standardized processes? By Stefan Wolpers.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering