Tag: Software engineering
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Behavioral programming with Petri Nets
Posted on January 31, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Fabrizio Romano Genovese wrote article about behavioural programming and how to use Petri nets to design software. A Petri net, also known as a place/transition (PT) net, is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of distributed systems.
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous
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9 Reasons why feature teams are the best team structure
Posted on January 28, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Interesting read by Łukasz Muszyński on SoftwareHut web site. They are primarily Agile software house believing in Agile to be main factor in their success. They discovered in the recent time that features teams based structure is one of the best Agile team structure for our software development projects.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Building a reverse proxy in .NET Core
Posted on January 24, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Andrea Chiarelli published this interesting guide focusing on building a reverse proxy in .NET Core. .NET Core is a free and open-source web framework, offering higher performance than .NET. It is developed by Microsoft and the community.You will learn how to use .NET Core to implement a reverse proxy to overcome specific needs.
Tags frontend-and-mobile software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Comparing JVM performance; Zulu OpenJDK, OpenJDK, Oracle JDK, GraalVM CE
Posted on January 15, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Comparison article by Maarten Smeets in which he tries to help you to choose the best Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for your project. There are many different choices for a JVM for your Java application.
Tags backend-development software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd
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Understand TensorFlow by mimicking its API from scratch
Posted on January 7, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
An article by Dominic Elm about learning TensorFlow. TensorFlow is a very powerful and open source library for implementing and deploying large-scale machine learning models.
Tags software-engineering data-and-analytics leadership-and-career ai-and-machine-learning
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React Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Posted on January 5, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
John Tucker wrote this little guide in which he explores React BDD using Gherkin syntax with Jest Cucumber.
Tags software-engineering testing-and-quality frontend-and-mobile backend-development product-and-design
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How to build Raspberry Pi UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)
Posted on January 4, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Tutorial by Zach Levine published on howchoo.com. He will teach you how to build your own Raspberry Pi UPS using some simple hardware. You can use this method to power a Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi Zero, or any other Pi.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech
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17 coding challenges to sharpen your critical thinking
Posted on January 3, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Alex Ivanovs created this vast resource of links to platforms offering exciting challenges for coders of all level. If you want to improve your skills in an existing or a new programming language, one of the best ways to do it is through coding challenges.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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High availability and scalable reads in PostgreSQL
Posted on January 1, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
A detailed primer on scaling PostgreSQL via streaming replication (with performance measurements) by Lee Hampton -- R&D Engineer at TimescaleDB. Despite popularity of PostgreSQL developers often still choose a non-relational (or "NoSQL") system over PostgreSQL, typically because of one reason: scale. Most developers still underestimate PostgreSQL native scalability.
Tags software-engineering data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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How to make WordPress page cache plugins fly with NGINX
Posted on December 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ashley Rich posted an article about improving WordPress performance uisng NGINX caching. There are a ton of WordPress page caching plugins available, but limiting yourself to cache plugins alone means leaving significant performance improvements on the table.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile backend-development software-engineering
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Simple Kafka producer in Kotlin, tutorial
Posted on December 26, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The first in series of tutorials by Alexis Seigneurin focused on Kafka. Author focuses on producing, consuming and processing messages or events.
Tags backend-development software-engineering data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd
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The Futures in Scala
Posted on December 25, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Álvaro Navarro wrote this interesting short tutorial on Futures in Scala. In it he explains the nuts and bolts of dealing with Futures in Scala and Akka. Futures allow to perform many operations in parallel in an efficient and non-blocking way, but dealing with multiple operations can be a real headache.
Tags backend-development software-engineering