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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. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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Software architecture insights: interview with Eoin Woods

Apiumhub

His main technical interests are software architecture, distributed systems and computer security. He was the recipient of the 2018 Linda Northrup Award for Software Architecture, from the Software Engineering Institute at CMU. And today we will cover key software architecture insights. .

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. Mantle and Ron Lichty propose to make programmers and software teams manageable.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If this sounds fanciful, it’s not hard to find AI systems that took inappropriate actions because they optimized a poorly thought-out metric. Then you can think about what guardrail metrics (or other means) you can use to keep the system working appropriately. AI performance tends to degrade over time as the environment changes.

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Pitfalls of Agile Transformations

LeanEssays

Other agile methodologies – especially the long lost Extreme Programming – have more to say on these topics, but most agile transformations reserve little time for improving the actual work involved in generating top notch software. Yet without a solid foundation in the technology that produces great systems, agile is pretty hollow.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

The system keeps crashing – no problem. No questions being asked ( 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder ) And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. Delivery of code/product that clearly has not been tested.

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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

UruIT

You’ll definitely want to take advantage of a half- or full-day workshop, which allows you to dive deeper into the technical knowledge and skills the conference has to offer. This conference focuses on distributed applications and systems and all the challenges that come with them. Strata Data Conference.