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Sustainability for Software Companies: Reducing Impact by Deciding What Not to Do
Small and medium-sized companies can contribute to sustainability with emissions reduction, mental health offerings and inclusion. To support sustainability, software engineers can think about “what not to do” to reduce complexity and make solutions smaller, resulting in a smaller carbon footprint.
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Learnings from Spotify Mobile Engineering’s Recent Platform Migration
Recently, Spotify Mobile Engineering Team elaborated on their experience with a recent platform migration. Working on an initiative under the Mobile Engineering Strategy program, the team migrated their Android and iOS codebases to build with Bazel, Google’s open-source build system.
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Helping Teams Deliver with a Quality Practices Assessment Model
The quality practices assessment model explores quality aspects that help teams to deliver in an agile way. The model covers both social and technical aspects of quality; it is used to assess the quality of the team’s processes and also touches on product quality. With an assessment, teams can look at where their practices lie within the quality aspects and decide on what they want to improve.
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Spotify Releases Enterprise Plugin Bundle for Backstage
Spotify has released five plugins for Backstage as a purchasable bundle. The five plugins cover a variety of use cases including compliance, access control, employee education and satisfaction, and usage metrics. The plugins are a mix of existing Spotify tooling and new development specifically for this bundle.
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Learnings from Applying Psychological Safety across Teams
Applying ideas from psychological safety can enable people to speak up in teams about what they don't know, don't understand, or mistakes they have made. Trust and creating safe spaces are essential, but more is needed. People need to feel that they will not be punished or embarrassed if they take interpersonal risks.
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How Twitter Automated Data Quality Check Process
Twitter engineering has recently shared a blog post on how they architected and developed a quality automation platform. Twitter digests and creates thousands of data sets for different data products and applications. The next natural step is to make sure of the quality of the data by adding automation on top of it. In this news post, we explore this architecture in more detail.
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Score Provides a Workflow Centric Approach to Container Workload Management
Score is designed to reduce the complexity and duplication required to run workloads across multiple cloud environments. Score defines workloads in a platform-agnostic fashion via YAML. At the time of release, the Score supports three platforms: Helm, Docker Compose, and Humanitec.
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GitLab Releases Single-Tenant SaaS Offering for Strict Security and Compliance
GitLab has released a new product - GitLab Dedicated - for customers in industries with strict security and compliance requirements wishing to move their DevOps software solutions from on-premise to the cloud.
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GitLab Adopts CLI Project to Bring GitLab to the Terminal
Open-core DevOps tool vendor GitLab has announced their adoption of glab - a command-line interface (CLI) tool for interacting with GitLab. This furthers GitLab's reach into all stages of the code writing process.
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How Defining Agile Results and Behaviors Can Enable Behavioral Change
Specifying and measuring behavior within a certain organisational context can enable and drive behavioral change. To increase the success of an agile transformation, it helps if you link the desired behaviors to the expected results. This way you set yourself up to be able to reinforce the behavior you want to see more of in order to reach your results.
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AWS Enters Remote Development and Collaboration Space with CodeCatalyst
At its recent re:Invent 2022 conference, Amazon previewed CodeCatalyst, a service aimed to ease developer collaboration by integrating remote workspaces, project templates, issue management, continuous integration and delivery, and more.
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Effective Retrospectives Require Skilled Facilitators
Retrospective facilitators can develop their facilitation skills by self-study and training, and by doing retrospectives. Better retrospective facilitation can lead to higher effectiveness of change and impact the progress of an organization.
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AWS Introduces CloudFront Continuous Deployment for Blue-Green and Canary Strategies
AWS announced that CloudFront now supports continuous deployment to test and validate the configuration changes with a portion of live traffic. The new feature of the AWS content delivery network simplifies blue-green and canary deployment strategies.
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How We Can Use Data to Improve System Quality
To understand how systems are being used, we can collect metrics and identify trends over time. The data and insights gained can be used to improve system quality by improving software design or testing patterns.
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Applying Machine Learning for Business Outcomes at Travelopia
Travelopia changed its focus from a technology approach to business outcomes, and adapted agile and lean for delivering machine learning solutions. This enabled them to deliver machine-learning business models faster and better.