Tag: Software engineering
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A beginners guide to abstraction in Object-Oriented programming
Posted on October 23, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Learn the basics of abstraction in object-oriented programming with example code and practice challenges. By Lee Nathan.
Tags software-engineering backend-development frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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InnoDB Data Locking – Part 1 Introduction
Posted on October 20, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this blog series, we would like to introduce you gently to the topic on which we were working over last 2 years. Improving how InnoDB locks data (tables and rows) in order to provide illusion to clients that their queries are executed one after another, while in reality there is a lot of concurrency. By Kuba Łopuszański.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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Zero downtime on MySQL schema change
Posted on October 19, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Have you ever deployed a feature which interrupted your application because the schema change on the MySQL database has locked the table? Then I have good news for you! There are some tools like the Percona Toolkit which can apply the operation without a downtime. By Michi Lehr.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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How to integrate bitbucket CI with selenium grid cloud
Posted on October 15, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Without Continuous Integration or CI, developers would need to manually coordinate, communicate, and test while contributing code to the end product each time. This, in turn, affects the production and causes a delay in release. By Salman Khan.
Tags testing-and-quality software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd
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As AI chips improve, is TOPS the best way to measure their power?
Posted on October 14, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
About the challenge of evaluating AI chip performance using "TOPS", a metric that means trillions of operations per second, or "tera operations per second". By Jeremy Horwitz.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning business-and-emerging-tech software-engineering
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Building modern CI/CD workflows for serverless applications with Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and Argo
Posted on October 13, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
GitOps practices support continuous delivery in hybrid, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. In this two-part article, we'll build a CI/CD workflow that demonstrates the potential of combining Tekton and GitOps. You'll also be introduced to Red Hat OpenShift Serverless, as we'll use Knative service resources in our CI/CD workflow. By David Sancho.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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What is design thinking and why is it so popular?
Posted on October 12, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Design Thinking is not an exclusive property of designers—all great innovators in literature, art, music, science, engineering, and business have practiced it. So, why call it Design Thinking? By Rikke Friis Dam and Teo Yu Siang.
Tags product-and-design software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Game development with .NET
Posted on October 10, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Microsoft launched a new Game Development with .NET section on their site. It's designed for current .NET developers to explore all the choices available to them when developing games. By Abdullah.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering how-to
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Why I'm excited about Cloudflare's automatic platform optimization for WordPress
Posted on October 8, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Cloudflare released "Automatic Platform Optimization" (APO), a new performance optimization service for WordPress sites. By Brian Li.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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Exploring site speed optimisations with WebPageTest and Cloudflare Workers
Posted on October 7, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
One of the common questions often asked by clients is "What difference will the changes you're recommending make to our site's speed"? By Andy Davies.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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Everything about null in JavaScript
Posted on October 4, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
JavaScript has 2 kinds of types: primitives (strings, booleans, numbers, symbols) and objects. But there are situations when an object cannot be created. For such cases, JavaScript provides a special value null -- which indicates a missing object. By Dmitri Pavlutin.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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Getting started with Knative in Scala
Posted on September 24, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Knative is an open source project that extends Kubernetes by providing a set of middleware components simplifying deploying, running, and managing serverless applications. By Boris Lublinsky.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering