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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. 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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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly. These principles tell us our tests should be: Fast.

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Functional vs non-functional software testing

CircleCI

When you think of software testing, what comes up first? For many developers, unit tests and integration tests are often top of mind. Both software testing methods are vital to writing and maintaining a high-quality production codebase. What is functional testing? Integration testing.

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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.

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Simulation Theory, Observability, and Modern Software Practices

Honeycomb

In the context of software development, particularly with observability 1.0’s s favorite three buzzwords (logs, metrics, and traces), we can draw several analogies to understand software development and debugging. In software, bugs and unforeseen issues represent this remainder.

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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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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

It’s well-established that there’s a severe shortage of experienced software developers. In a February poll by Infragistics, more than half (53%) of software developers and IT professionals said that the biggest challenge this year will be recruiting developers with the right skills. million by 2030. based workers.