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Test Automation: Prevention or Cure?
A lot of teams have the tendency to view test automation as a way of speeding up delivery of software, as this is often the perceived bottleneck within the team, but if they were to take a deeper look at their development practices as a whole, they may get better results.
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Service Virtualization Meets Java: Hoverfly Tutorial
Service virtualization is a technique used to simulate the behavior of dependencies of service during automated testing. This article explores this topic, and includes a tutorial using Hoverfly Java.
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The Many Flavors of “Low-Code”
While the low-code hype often tells how "citizen developers" can create enterprise applications without the need to code, these platforms can serve an important role for professional developers.
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Robust Engineering: User Interfaces You Can Trust with State Machines
Industrial-strength modelling techniques used in safety-critical domains can be leveraged for the specification and implementation of user interfaces. This article explains how state machine modelling may lead to robust, testable and maintainable user interfaces.
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To Multicluster, or Not to Multicluster: Inter-Cluster Communication Using a Service Mesh
Communication within Kubernetes clusters is a solved issue, but communication across clusters requires more design and operational overhead. Before deciding on whether to implement multicluster support, you should understand your communication use case.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2019
QCon returned to London this past March for its thirteenth year in the city, attracting 1,500 senior developers, architects, and team leads.
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Bots Are Coming! Approaches for Testing Conversational Interfaces
Voice-based computing interfaces need testing with an adapted approached, suited for their specificity and context. Some things need to be adapted (test strategy, testing approach, validation criteria), while others can be re-used (e.g. API testing approaches and tools), and some require learning new things (e.g. testing artificial intelligence models and components).
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Kotlin Multiplatform for iOS Developers
Leveraging the similarities between Swift and Kotlin, Kotlin Multiplatform makes it easy to create cross-platform components that you can reuse across iOS and Android projects. This article will lead you through all the steps required to set up Android Studio to build a framework you can import into Xcode.
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Q&A on the Book What’s Your Digital Business Model
The book What’s Your Digital Business Model, by Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner, explores how companies can reinvent themselves to become successful in the digital economy. It provides a research-based framework, coupled with assessments and examples, for executives to think about how to compete in the digital era and decide what’s needed to migrate towards a digital business model.
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Upgrading from Java 8 to Java 12
Why upgrade to Java 12? Lots of things have changed since Java 8: licensing, updates and support. On top of that, there are new language features. Now that major libraries, frameworks and build tools have adopted the latest versions of Java, it is a good time to migrate your application to Java 12.
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Q&A on the Book Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
In the book Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explains why it is so easy for incompetent men to become leaders and so hard for competent people - especially women - to advance. He explores leadership qualities and dives into how to recognize them, paving the way to improve leadership in organizations.
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Linkerd v2: How Lessons from Production Adoption Resulted in a Rewrite of the Service Mesh
Linkerd 2.0 introduced a substantial rewrite of the widely adopted service mesh, using a split between Go and Rust. In this article, we discuss the lessons learned in the "cauldron of production adoption", and how those lessons became the basis of Linkerd 2.x’s philosophy, design, and implementation.