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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

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How to Save Time and Money by Testing Spark Locally

Xebia

Why should you think once again about testing Spark? Data Engineers were tempted by the pressure of the moment to give up on testing all together. And no need for unit testing, since the app was tested all at once by running it in the cluster, and the data could be validated running some basic SQL commands.

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CodeSignal secures $50M for its tech hiring platform

TechCrunch

In less than a year after raising $25 million in Series B funding , technical assessment company CodeSignal announced a $50 million in Series C funding to offer new features for its platform that helps companies make data-driven hiring decisions to find and test engineering talent. to study at MIT.

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Article: Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse

InfoQ Culture Methods

In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges. By Tariq King

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5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability

Honeycomb

Is it any surprise that studies are showing 83% of software developers are feeling burnout? That was certainly the case at Slack where releases were delayed due to a high rate (50%) of flaky tests. Observability is more than a platform: it’s a culture shift. But even the best observability offering needs a culture of support.

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Improve your Functional Monitoring with the Functional Monitoring Quadrants

Xebia

Synthetic Testing versus Real User Activity. With Synthetic Testing, we continuously get information about the availability of the system. We generate the information about the system by executing tests in production according to a schedule (e.g., Case study: A checkout flow. every 5 minutes). Conclusion.

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Article: How I Contributed as a Tester to a Machine Learning System: Opportunities, Challenges and Learnings

InfoQ Culture Methods

In those cases, testing takes a backseat. And even if testing is done, it’s done mostly by developers itself. Have you ever wondered about systems based on machine learning? A tester’s role is not clearly portrayed. Testers usually struggle to understand ML-based systems and explore what contributions they can make.