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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Do you participate in any form of sports? Software engineers either love or hate it, and I guess some of them are unaware of the actual values of TDD, thus perceiving it as a waste of time and effort. Let me shine some light on why TDD is extremely valuable to software engineers. Why do you stretch, though?

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Softjourn A full-cycle consulting and software development company.

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Interview with Evgeny Predein – CEO of Apiumhub

Apiumhub

He got his software engineering degree in Valencia and his Master in Helsinki. First he decided to work as a software developer to better understand the industry and then once he identified key gaps in the software industry he decided to found his own company, focusing on software architecture and best practices.

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Leading startups hubs: Barcelona 6th place!

Apiumhub

Over the past 10 years, Spain has caught up in terms of education of entrepreneurship, software engineering and design in particular. For example according to Mobile World Capital, for example in Germany, the average salary of senior software engineer is 61K, in France it is 57K, but in Spain, it is 40K. . IOT congress.

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Finding Career Opportunities Through Experimentation with Josh Doody

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Marcus’s interview with Josh on Software Engineering Radio. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. And maybe I’ll give sports analogy really quickly, which is-. Marcus: I love the sports metaphor.

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Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

Gitprime

That was the subject of a webinar we held with Matt Greenberg (VP of Engineering at Credit Carma), Erica Stanley (Software Engineering Manager at SalesLoft), and Lara Hogan (founder of Wherewithall and author of the book Resilient Management ). It’s critical to recognize and foster a sense of growth between promotions.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

I had inadvertently shown the company that we could have these programs without planning for sustainable staffing, created hidden process debt, and suggested that we could take on major new efforts without making the tough tradeoffs that these efforts truly call for.