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How to be a Professional Software Developer

MagmaLabs

There are a ton of examples of how much software is around us: cooling systems, our cellphones, automatic doors, microphones, cars, traffic lights, etc. It is not something to be taken lightly, the future will be built by us developers and we sure want a good one, not one in which things from the past were easier to use. Independent.

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Start with Traces, not with Logs: How Honeycomb Helped Massdriver Reduce Alert Fatigue

Honeycomb

While many companies use this lofty language to make similar promises, Dave Williams, CTO and co-founder at Massdriver, means it. In the past, when Dave was a software developer, he suffered through many middle-of-the-night fires because observability tooling was ignored. We used Jaeger and an OTel exporter.

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Pitfalls of Agile Transformations

LeanEssays

In the First Round Review article I'm Sorry, But Agile Won't Fix Your Products , Adam Pisoni, co-founder and former CTO of Yammer, contends that “While SCRUM did manage to rein in impulsive managers, it ended up being used more to exert tighter control over engineers’ work.” Agile without a strong technology base is usually a mistake.

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

So, what allows me to do this—what allows me to do this show, this software development show every week, and what allows me to write this book—is the people who hire me for training and consulting. First, business analysts would interview stakeholders and document the system requirements. In theory, anyway.). This was discipline.

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