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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. Customer’s problem At one of our major clients at Xebia customers complained, that the project velocity was inconsistent, while the development team seemed perpetually busy.

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Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)

TechCrunch

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. This year, the event, held this past Wednesday, shined a light on 13 of these very nascent teams. These were the exact pitches that the teams delivered straight to investors in attendance, so you’ll naturally spot a bit of hyperbole (because, startups).

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What Makes a Tech Interview Great? Hear an Engineer’s Perspective

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Assess the personality strengths and weaknesses of the candidate to understand whether they can execute responsibilities in the long run or not. For example, a front-end developer should have good knowledge of Python and front-end languages such as HTML/ CSS, Javascript, XML, etc. It’s time to break the old patterns of tech interviews.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

However, the measure of success has been historically at odds with the number of projects said to be overrunning or underperforming, as Panorama has noted that organizations have lowered their standards of success. While we weren’t naïve to the risk of disruption to the business, the extent and magnitude was greater than we anticipated.”

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Strangler Pattern: How to Deal With Legacy Code During the Container Revolution

OverOps

Is it the accumulation of code in an outdated system that’s seen changes from tens, or even hundreds, of developers over the years? It’s no wonder, considering it brings a lot of benefits into our workflow and build methods including shorter development times and increased flexibility. Watch a live demo here. It’s both, really.

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5 Can’t-Miss Talks and Workshops to Attend at QCon NYC

OverOps

QCon NYC is an international software development conference for senior software engineers and architects. It’s the conference professional developers have been attending for the past 8 years to find out what the world’s most innovative software shops are using. In 2018, poor quality software cost U.S. companies an estimated $2.84

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Debugging Distributed Systems: 3 Common Distributed Tracing Challenges & How to Overcome Them

OverOps

This approach helps pinpoint where failures occur across multiple services and the root cause of poor performance. Below we break down some common challenges teams encounter with distributed tracing, as well as the most effective methods. There are two main ways that teams approach distributed tracing: Let’s start with OpenTracing.

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