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How to Boost Your Skills to Become a Better Developer

Katas are great for learning new skills or to improve existing ones but don't address the intensity we face at work when there is a raging fire such as a deadline, release date, fixing a bug in huge legacy code, etc. This article covers the skills of good developers and highlights changing your training approach to improve your skills for high-intensity and challenging environments.

Boris Gonnot Houssam Fakih
on Nov 03, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A with the Author on "Designing the Requirements”, an Alternative Approach

In the book “Designing the Requirements: Building Applications that the User Wants and Needs”, the author Chris Britton proposes an alternative path that goes from understanding the requirements to deliver spot on solutions.

Rui Miguel Ferreira
on Nov 02, 2016
Architecture & Design

But is it Safe?

While it is rare to hear the question, "Is this software safe?", the safety aspects of software are becoming increasingly important. The proliferation of IoT devices increases the widespread impact a small problem can cause. Several techniques exist to help developers analyze and improve the safety of software they create.

Gary K. Evans
on Oct 31, 2016
Architecture & Design

How Ousta Simulates Rides within a Two-Minute Test Cycle

Egyptian ride hailing provider Ousta has two mobile apps which interact with an event driven architecture using microservices. The combination of EDA and microservices facilitated a simulation system for automation, and a rapid development and testing cycle.

Mostafa Saeed
on Oct 30, 2016
DevOps

Why and How to Test Logging

Logging and aggregation are crucial tools for today's complex, distributed systems. They provide rich insights which keep time to recover short. We must therefore make sure we test logging adequately.

Manuel Pais Matthew Skelton
on Oct 29, 2016
Culture & Methods

Actionable Agile Tools

Many people find the world of Agile full of fluffy and non-actionable advice. This can be frustrating when you have a simple problem and want someone to tell you how to fix it. Of course there is no step A, B, and C answers, but Campbell aims to give you a solid starting point with actionable tools in this article

Jeff Campbell
on Oct 27, 2016
Culture & Methods

Agile Manufacturing: Not the Oxymoron You Might Think

Digital manufacturers are organizing from an outside-in mindset that starts with the customer, and looks to deliver creatively on market opportunities, whatever they happen to be, however they will be delivered, and whoever will deliver them. Profits are seen as the consequence of providing value to customers, not the goal of the firm.

Yousef Awad
on Oct 26, 2016
.NET

Advanced Use Cases for the Repository Pattern in .NET

In our previous article, we looked at the basic patterns needed to implement a repository. In many cases these patterns were such a thin layer around the underlying data access technology they were essentially unnecessary. However, once you have a repository in place, many new opportunities become available.

Jonathan Allen
on Oct 25, 2016
Web Development

Language-Level Reactivity with Elm

Reactive programming is becoming more prevalent in the JavaScript programming world. But, it's always added on as an afterthought or a library. But what if it could exist by default, inherent to the language? Richard Feldman shows how the Elm language is just that. Elm doesn't just try to make JavaScript better, it tries to rewrite the developer experience and make it inherently better.

Richard Feldman
on Oct 24, 2016
Culture & Methods

How to Successfully Install Agile/DevOps in Asia

Installing Agile / DevOps in Asia is very difficult. This article presents five steps to help overcome the cultural barriers and be successful.

Tsuyoshi Ushio
on Oct 22, 2016
Cloud

The Three Generations of AWS

When building a new system on AWS we are faced with three architectural choices around application packaging, runtime service and load balancing service. This article looks at these three options, and concludes that the Amazon EC2 Container Service provides the best architectural option for today's applications.

Noah Zoschke
on Oct 21, 2016
Culture & Methods

An Introduction to Modern Agile

Modern Agile’s four guiding principles define a simpler, safer, speedier way to achieve awesome results: Make People Awesome, Make Safety a Prerequisite, Experiment & Learn Rapidly and Deliver Value Continuously. These principles are present in the products and services we love. Modern Agile doesn’t define what roles, rituals or practices to follow. You choose how to act on the principles.

Joshua Kerievsky
on Oct 20, 2016