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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

I recently finished Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide by Maurício Aniche , and I really liked it. I have been coding for a long time and I think I have been writing pretty good tests for the features I have implemented. Even so, I found this book quite valuable. Particularly the chapters on how to systematically come up with test cases based on the specification, inputs, outputs and the structure of the implementation.

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Four tips to better structure Terraform projects

Xebia

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) codifies the provisioning of infrastructure. This way it can take advantage of software engineering best practices to produce faster and consistent deployment of infrastructure. One of the leading IaC software tools is Hashicorp’s Terraform and with the return of Hashiconf to Amsterdam I decided to share my personal recommendations on how to better structure your Terraform projects!

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FDA orders Juul to stop selling its vaping products in the US

TechCrunch

The axe has fallen for e-cigarette maker Juul. The FDA ordered the company to stop selling and distributing its ubiquitous vaping devices in the U.S. Thursday, a dramatic end for a company that dominated the e-cigarette market and was valued at $38 billion at the top of its game. Juul will no longer be able to sell its vapes nor its 5% or 3% tobacco and menthol-flavored pods in the U.S. without “risk[ing] enforcement action” from the U.S.

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What We Learnt From Target’s Diversity And Inclusion Strategy

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Having a diversity and inclusion strategy for an organization helps foster a diverse workplace where everyone feels comfortable and accepted and to leverage diversity as a driving force for growth and competitive advantage. Before a recruitment firm develops a diversity and inclusion strategy, it’s critical to recognize the negative effects of non-inclusive policies, processes, and behavior by recognizing the barriers and opportunities that influence the diversity of hire and continuing ta

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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How to Become a Software Developer Fast?

The Crazy Programmer

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) forecasts a 22% growth in employment rate for software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers from 2019 to 2029 — which exceeds, by the 4% average for all employers. Software development as a skill is lucrative , regardless of if you have a software development degree or not. In this article, we will discuss how to become a software developer fast.

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Thepeer, an API-based startup that connects African businesses, raises $2.1M, led by Raba Partnership

TechCrunch

Thepeer , an African tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, has raised a $2.1 million seed round led by the Raba Partnership. The news comes a year after the startup raised $220,000 in pre-seed from a handful of angel investors, including Paystack CTO Ezra Olubi and Edenlife CTO Prosper Otemuyiwa. Participating investors in Thepeer’s seed round include RaliCap, Timon Capital, BYLD Ventures, Musha Ventures, Sunu and Uncovered Fund.

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Survey Shows Correlation Between Open Source, DevOps Skills Demand

DevOps.com

A survey published this week by the Linux Foundation suggested enterprise IT organizations now prefer to hire IT professionals that have both open source software and DevOps experience. Conducted in collaboration with edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., the survey polled 1,672 open source professionals and 559 respondents with responsibility for […].

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How to make low code work long term

TechBeacon

Low-code development's popularity has been steadily increasing for years now, with no signs of slowing down. Its appeal is that it gives users the ability to create software applications through a graphical interface, with little or no need for programming in the traditional sense.

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WhiteHat brings new dimension to DAST capabilities at Synopsys

Synopsys

The acquisition of WhiteHat Security, the leading the DAST solution provider, is a step toward a more comprehensive, end-to-end portfolio for AppSec. The post WhiteHat brings new dimension to DAST capabilities at Synopsys appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Cryptoys banks a16z funding to build NFTs for kids

TechCrunch

The past several months haven’t been entirely kind to the NFT market — while transaction volume hasn’t stuttered too significantly, the dollar amount invested in the space has been in free fall as cryptocurrency prices have taken a historic dive. With that as background, it might not seem like the best time to launch an NFT platform, let alone one geared toward children.

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One Year Out: What Biden’s EO Means for Software Devs

DevOps.com

It has been just over a year since president Biden issued executive order 14028 (EO) to improve the nation’s cybersecurity posture. Despite the Log4j vulnerability and a worldwide increase in ransomware attacks, this EO signaled a major step in improving software security at federal agencies and establishing cybersecurity as a priority for the U.S. government. […].

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How Low Code Demands More Creativity From Developers

Dzone - DevOps

This is an article from DZone's 2022 Low Code and No Code Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. Yes, engineering is a science, but it's more and more an art, too. Developers must be at least as creative as the next hacker — and they need to cultivate user empathy. That's why organizations benefit from automating the minutia, allowing devs to focus on novel problem-solving.

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GitHub Bug Allowed Third-party Apps to Gain Elevated Permissions

Aqua Security

We learned about a bug in GitHub that for about five days at the end of February allowed connected GitHub third-party applications to generate new scoped installation tokens with elevated permissions. For example, if you connected the Codecov app to your GitHub account with read-only access to your repositories, during that window it could have created a new token with write access to them.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Vibrant Planet raises $17M seed round to grow forest restoration SaaS

TechCrunch

For Allison Wolff, the 2018 wildfire season in California marked a turning point. During that record-breaking year , she started asking a lot of questions. “We were in the middle of the 2018 wildfire season, with the Carr Fire, and what I thought at the time was the worst season ever,” Wolff said. “I started asking lots and lots of people — climate scientists I’d worked with, land managers, utility leaders, insurance leaders — why is this happening so catastrophically?

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Developer’s Guide to Web Application Security

DevOps.com

When it comes to security, there are many vulnerabilities that can leave your website or web app open to attack. In this article, we’ll go over 15 common web application security vulnerabilities and how you can prevent them. 1. Insufficient Cryptography Cryptography is a critical security measure that is used to protect data in transit […].

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Revisiting '13 programming languages for the future'

TechBeacon

Baseball great Yogi Berra famously said that predictions are hard, especially about the future. Seven years ago, my editors asked me to come up with a list of 13 programming languages that would define the future of coding. Now they've asked me to go back and analyze what I got right and what I got wrong.

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Building Transparency into AI Projects

Harvard Business Review

As AI becomes ever more embedded in people’s lives, effective communication with stakeholders can define a product’s success — or failure.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, folks, and welcome to the Friday edition of Daily Crunch. As you might’ve seen, the Supreme Court issued a major decision on abortion today, effectively overturning Roe v. Wade in declaring that the Constitution doesn’t guarantee the right to abortion.

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TechStrong Con: Downturn Brings Additional Sense of DevOps Urgency

DevOps.com

Regardless of whether the overall economy is experiencing a correction or is on the cusp of a recession, organizations are going to prioritize some projects over others as resources become more constrained. During the “DevOps: Has the Bubble Burst?” panel made up of DevOps executives and investors from venture capital firms that kicked off the […].

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Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone! 11 Tips To “Shake Things Up”

CEO Insider

I want you to imagine that when you wake up tomorrow, everything you do will be done to the best of your ability. You’ll give 110% effort to each activity you’ve planned for your day, disregarding any fears you may have. No obstacles. No negative thinking. No procrastination. Do you think this attitude will impact […]. The post Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone!

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Dehumanization Is a Feature of Gig Work, Not a Bug

Harvard Business Review

The 40 million Americans who’ve rented out their services to platforms like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash may be canaries in the coal mine of the new world of work.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Strapi lands $31M for its ‘headless’ CMS platform

TechCrunch

Strapi , an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. With the capital, CEO Pierre Burgy tells TechCrunch that the plan is to launch a new product, Strapi Cloud, while bringing in additional tech and solution partners and further developing the Strapi project.

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Supergraph: One GraphQL Schema to Rule Them All

DevOps.com

GraphQL has been garnering much interest as a way to seamlessly interact with backend services. The query language is a boon for frontend developers, too, as it conveniently allows you to fetch the specific fields you require, thus eliminating the potential overfetching or underfetching concerns of REST APIs. And as GraphQL adoption matures within organizations, […].

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Being Authentic: Whether to Involve Your Company in Social Causes, And How

CEO Insider

Face it. Your company taking a stance on a social issue won’t yield a perfect outcome. Committing to a social cause means being in league with others who are imperfect and, in some way, for reasons fair or unfair, offends someone else. No person or organization is perfect. If your organization doesn’t take a stance […]. The post Being Authentic: Whether to Involve Your Company in Social Causes, And How appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Chef InSpec: Where Compliance and Security Blend

Dzone - DevOps

Overview. As your applications grow and become more complex, so can your worries about the risks to your environments and ensuring they comply with your system policies and regulatory standards. While administrators deal with audits and other routine work, they also need to work on planned projects. DevSecOps teams could manage their endpoints with existing tools for small fleets of devices, but challenges arise when you begin to scale.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Paris-based Breega closes €250M fund, opens Barcelona office to back Iberian startups

TechCrunch

Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million seed fund, just under a year go. It’s portfolio now includes a number of scaleups including Moneybox, Cuvva, Coverflex and Libeo. Perhaps part of its “secret sauce” is how it has managed to put together an in house-team of experts in growth, talent and comms, of which more later.

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TechStrong Con: Open Source Software Community Needs Security Help

DevOps.com

The only way to make significant improvements in the state of open source security is if more organizations that benefit from open source projects commit to making more resources available to achieve that goal. At the virtual TechStong Con event, executives on an Open Source and DevOps panel called for more contributions from enterprise IT […].

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CodeSOD: Spellchucker

The Daily WTF

There's an old saying in programming: you don't have to spell correctly , you only have to spell consistently. As long as you mispell everything the same way, your language will understand your code. However, most editors and IDEs have spell-check integration, though, because it's hard to get everyone on a team to spell things wrong consistently.