Tag: Software engineering
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An introduction to the automation test wheel
Posted on June 13, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
As a software tester, I like thinking about testing a product from a number of different angles. Over the last few years I've learned about security testing and performance testing, and I've come to see how important those activities are in validating software quality. By Kristin Jackvony.
Tags testing-and-quality software-engineering frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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5 reasons Elixir can be your competitive advantage
Posted on June 13, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Elixir is a relatively new programming language. Release of v1.0 was announced on September 18, 2014. Elixir has been trusted by several companies to be part of their toolset. Some of those well-known companies that publicly shared they use Elixir to build their products are Pinterest, PagerDuty and Wistia. By Elvio Vicosa.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering architecture-and-apis
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How to design for panic resilience in Rust
Posted on June 10, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Don't panic! Learn to build quality software resilient to errors. In this story, we discuss methods for panic resilience in Rust applications, to make quality software users can rely upon. By Luke I. Wilson.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career
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5 Useful jq commands to parse JSON on the CLI
Posted on June 5, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
JSON has become the de facto standard data representation for the web. It's lightweight, human-readable (in theory) and supported by all major languages and platforms. However, working on the CLI with JSON is still hard using traditional CLI tooling. By Fabian Keller.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics software-engineering
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Scaling up with Elixir
Posted on May 30, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
It's exciting when your website or platform gets a spike in traffic -- that is, unless it fails. A disappointing web experience can quickly encourage new users to look elsewhere for an alternative that is faster and more responsive to their needs. By Nathan Long.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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Getting started with the Ansible collection for NGINX controller
Posted on May 28, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Recently, NGINX announced the release of the Ansible collection for NGINX Controller. The collection contains a set of Ansible Roles that make it easy to incorporate NGINX Controller into your workflows. You can automate routine tasks such as generating ephemeral API tokens, managing certificate lifecycles, and configuring Controller objects (Gateways, Applications, and Components). By Brian Ehlert.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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The crypto price-innovation cycle
Posted on May 27, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
People who've been in crypto for a long time view the space as evolving in cycles, alternating between periods of high activity and "crypto winters." There have been three cycles so far. The first peaked in 2011, the second in 2013, and the third in 2017. By Chris Dixon and Eddy Lazzarin on Andreessen Horowitz.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech software-engineering data-and-analytics
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C# Delegates with IoC containers and Dependency Injection
Posted on May 26, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Developers are usually encouraged to do dependency injection with interfaces. Some developers don't know that they can do dependency injection with delegates, and there are good reasons to do this. By Christian Findlay.
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis
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Pymp, OpenMP-like Python programming
Posted on May 22, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Ever since Python was created, users have been looking for ways to achieve multiprocessing with threads, which the Python global interpreter lock (GIL) prevents.By Jeff Layton.
Tags backend-development product-and-design software-engineering
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Heal for SAP
Posted on May 16, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Shaivya Easwaren published this 4th article in the series about self-healing as the solution for ensuring site reliability in modern day enterprises with ultra-dynamic workloads. In the previous blogs of the series, we have seen the various issues that typically plague such environments, how AIOps and self-healing tools help resolve these issues, particularly how Heal helps by monitoring the Four Golden Signals for SRE.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech
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What is Kata and how is it different from Lean?
Posted on May 13, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This article tries to find answer to questions: What is Kata? How do Kata Coaching and the Improvement Kata work? How are they different from other lean concepts? By Rever Team.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Kotlin: An illustrated guide to conditionals When and If
Posted on May 12, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In real life, we do different things depending on the circumstances. For example, if it's raining outside, I'll probably grab an umbrella. If it's sunny outside, I'll grab my sunglasses. I do different things depending on the weather. By Dave Leeds.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design software-engineering leadership-and-career