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Book review: Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri

Wolk Software Engineering

A couple of days ago I finished reading Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri and, as usual, I would like to share a review with the community. I’m a software engineer, not a product manager, product designer or product owner. 1 The value exchange system. 2 Constraints on the value exchange system.

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Algorithm Efficiency

Gorilla Logic

The efficiency of the algorithms used in an application can impact its overall performance; hence, the importance of measuring the performance and complexity of algorithms through means that are accessible not only to mathematicians but also to any software engineer who aims to excel in algorithm design. References. Martin, R.

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Reading List: 2019 Edition

Daniel Bryant

Software Engineering Daily , The Herd with Colin Cowherd (mainly for the NFL coverage), and the Bowery Boys New York City History (exploring my love of all-things NYC!) I’ve included links on the book titles below, and these are affiliate links that go to Amazon.co.uk.

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How to be a Professional Software Developer

MagmaLabs

Not only our civilization depends upon our work, but also software is everywhere in our daily life! There are a ton of examples of how much software is around us: cooling systems, our cellphones, automatic doors, microphones, cars, traffic lights, etc. Fragility: the software breaks in many places due to a single change.

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15 Books by leading software architects

Apiumhub

They range from a general understanding of structure and quality attributes through technical issues like middleware components and service-oriented architectures to recent technologies like model-driven architecture, software product lines, aspect-oriented design, and the Semantic Web, which will presumably influence future software systems.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Lean was introduced to software a couple of decades ago. This working paper was submitted as a chapter in The International Handbook of Lean Organization , Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming. So small changes were submitted, reviewed, and integrated into the live code base as quickly as possible. How are they getting along?

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Why I’m Grateful For Our Observability Community

Honeycomb

When Christine and Charity founded the company, their commitment was to build a company that not only provided value to all software engineers but moreover “ Honeycomb, is trying to democratize and simplify modern programming with “consumer-quality” software monitoring and debugging tools ” for the benefit of all.