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How To Be an Effective Boy/Girl-Scout Engineer

The "boy scout rule" is "always leave the code better than you found it." It's simple, yet not everyone is doing it. Let's figure out why and how to fix it.

July 28, 2021

by Alex Omeyer

· 3,795 Views · 2 Likes

Technical Debt: Interview With Adam Tornhill and Alex Omeyer

Alex Omeyer interviewed Adam Tornhill about technical debt: what is it, why it's important, and how to manage it effectively.

Updated July 27, 2021

by Alex Omeyer

· 6,086 Views · 6 Likes

The Ultimate Engineer's Guide to Code Refactoring

Learn all about refactoring source code: the benefits, challenges, tools, and best practices, and what is the difference between refactoring and technical debt.

Updated July 27, 2021

by Cate Lawrence

CORE

· 12,698 Views · 13 Likes

Running Apache Spark on Kubernetes

This article covers using Spark on K8s to overcome dependency on cloud providers and running Apache Spark on Kubernetes.

July 26, 2021

by Ramiro Alvarez Fernandez

· 11,633 Views · 3 Likes

Software Engineers Need to Know DevOps Too, and That Starts with CI/CD

In this world of cross-functional teams and microservice architecture, DevOps skills become increasingly important. Learn about continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, and more.

June 24, 2021

by Tyler Hawkins

CORE

· 11,931 Views · 6 Likes

How Hasura 2.0 Works: A Design and Engineering Look

We peek under the hood to see what makes Hasura 2.0 tick.

June 4, 2021

by Protim Bhaumik

· 13,417 Views · 4 Likes

Remote Pair Programming with IntelliJ, Eclipse and VS Code

Need a code-focused solution to collaborate across IDEs? Use CodeTogether

May 23, 2021

by Brian Fernandes

· 12,060 Views · 4 Likes

How To Propagate Context Information Throw Spring Batch

Introduction to a framework that performs the propagation of Spring Security, Sleuth, MDC, and Locale (Internationalization) contexts inside Spring Batch items.

Updated May 4, 2021

by Mohammed ZAHID

CORE

· 11,857 Views · 2 Likes

Developer Tooling for Kubernetes in 2021: Skaffold, Tilt, and Garden (Part 2)

A developer explores alternative tools for spinning up a development environment on Kubernetes, namely Skaffold, Tilt, and Garden.

April 27, 2021

by Liran Haimovitch

· 7,486 Views · 3 Likes

Effective Code Reviews For Remote Teams

Code Reviews in a remote-driven world yield a better software design and solution. Find out why that is the case in this latest article by John Vester.

April 23, 2021

by John Vester

CORE

· 52,616 Views · 12 Likes

4 Essential KPIs for Software Teams to Track Their Productivity

A discussion of role that key performance indicators (KPI) play in software development and how they can help your team do better work, faster.

April 15, 2021

by Richard Conn

· 8,788 Views · 2 Likes

How To Give Your DevOps Feedback Loop The Update It Needs

Your DevOps team should always be looking to improve the speed and quality of your process. We discuss a few solutions to enhance your feedback loops.

April 8, 2021

by Samuel O'Brien

· 8,955 Views · 2 Likes

6 Quick Ways to Attract Clients as a Freelance Software Developer

Discover the fastest and highest earnings ways to attract freelance clients as a software developer, so you can concentrate on coding.

April 7, 2021

by Anastasia Belyh

· 9,132 Views · 2 Likes

How to Build and Debug a Flink Pipeline Based in Event Time

In this article, we’ll take a look at Event time-based pipelines and also to some common problems and misunderstandings working on this type of pipeline.

March 25, 2021

by Anton Rodriguez

· 7,985 Views · 3 Likes

What Is a CI/CD Pipeline?

We explore the various stages in a CI/CD process and why a CI/CD pipeline is essential for your organization to deliver code at speed and scale.

Updated March 25, 2021

by Jyoti Sahoo

· 27,499 Views · 17 Likes

How to Run an Elastic MapReduce Job Using a Custom Jar on Amazon EMR

Learn how to develop an application using Java and the MapReduce framework for Hadoop, then execute that app in Amazon's Elastic MapReduce.

March 22, 2021

by Muhammad Ali Khojaye

· 17,153 Views · 4 Likes

Look, Ma! No Pods!

Microservices CI/CD with GitLab and HashiCorp Nomad.

Updated March 10, 2021

by Kyriakos Mandalas

CORE

· 22,600 Views · 7 Likes

DataWeave Interview Question: Concatenate Elements of an Array

This article will help you practice your DataWeave skills in MuleSoft. We're going to use two different approaches to concatenate an array of letters.

Updated March 6, 2021

by Gaurav Dubey

· 8,210 Views · 1 Like

Remote Monitoring With 360 Cameras and Raspberry Pi

Learn how you can build a DIY 360° camera robot with Rasberry Pi that can help businesses adapt to the new workflows required by COVID-19 restrictions.

March 5, 2021

by Craig Oda

CORE

· 7,325 Views · 4 Likes

How a DevOps Engineer Facilitates DevOps

A DevOps engineer must have skills that span both development and operations, as well as interpersonal skills to help bridge divides between siloed teams.

February 24, 2021

by Tom Hall

· 7,875 Views · 3 Likes

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