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MergeStat channels open source and SQL to bring ‘operational analytics’ to software engineering

TechCrunch

“This has led us to where we are today, where our mission is to support operational analytics for software engineering teams,” DeVivo said. “If it’s involved in building or shipping software, we’d like to make it possible to query with SQL.” Example pull request (PR) data derived via MergeStat.

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Can developer productivity be measured? Better than you think

CIO

In retail, for example, software has been the fastest-growing job category ; about half of the world’s software engineers work outside the tech industry. Well-known metrics, such as deployment frequency, are useful when it comes to tracking teams but not individuals. million in the United States.

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What LinkedIn learned leveraging LLMs for its billion users

CIO

For LinkedIn, this was no different, as its road to LLM insights was anything but smooth, said LinkedIn’s Juan Bottaro, a principal software engineer and tech lead. For example, an early version of the revised job-matching effort was rather, for the lack of a better word, rude. Not enough dots were being connected.”

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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

Software development is not an established discipline where there is a clear technique used to solve any given problem. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging. The costs of entropy in software systems cannot be over-emphasised. This is natural, yet this is also a big problem.

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Is it worth measuring software developer productivity? CIOs weigh in

CIO

Gartner’s surveys and data from client inquiries confirm that developer productivity remains a top priority for software engineering leaders.” One big caveat of some productivity measurements is that some can lead to false positives, or cause engineers to game the system. “As

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Here’s The Crucial Metrics To Measure Your Software Development Team Effectiveness

Xicom

Software Measurement” is the baseline element of software engineering. But, writing the lines of code or the number of hours spent at the office is not how you evaluate the effectiveness of a software developer in doing their job. What Actually Is Software Productivity? Available: This can be used to benchmark.

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Our book “Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture” is published!

Apiumhub

We are delighted to announce the release of our new book “ Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture ”. VYou app , for making me innovate and implement new software architecture metrics. Alexander has been writing software or managing development teams since the 1980s.