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Testing Quarkus Web Applications: Reactive Messaging, Kafka, and Testcontainers
Quarkus is a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework that supports many coding styles, including reactive programming. Writing clean unit/component/integration tests for Quarkus applications when a reactive approach is used is vitally important. Here we demonstrate testing reactive code, reactive messaging, and full integration testing.
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Becoming More Efficient and Productive in a Distracted World
This article highlights how increased distractions in agile teams can affect our mental health and cause burnout. It outlines how various productivity hacks can help to reduce this problem and make you highly efficient using real-life experiences. Finally, it discusses various steps the software industry can take to help preserve our mental health and reduce distractions.
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The Perfect Pair: Digital Twins and Predictive Maintenance
Businesses are moving towards developing a predictive maintenance model using digital twins that mirror their real-life counterparts. In this article, the author looks at digital twins, and provides an example of how to build one.
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Cut Your Design Sprints in Half with These Key Tips
Cut your next design sprint in half with these tips at your side. With this approach, you’ll be able to turn 2.5 days into ~4 hours and the whole sprint to 2.5 days. Make collaborative design thinking easier, more fun, and exciting. With up-front preparation, a clear challenge to tackle, and attention to the clock, you can get to the essentials and turn innovative ideas into testable prototypes.
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Pathpida Brings Types to Next.js and Nuxt.js Dynamic Routing with Zero Configuration
Pathpida is a library for TypeScript projects to collect dynamic routes in one place. It is a tedious task to do manually. This helps check the existence of routes in large web apps. Pathpida is optimized for Next.js (React) and Nuxt.js (Vue). Pathpida can be added to existing Next.js and Nuxt.js projects without configuration.
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How Optimizing MLOps Can Revolutionize Enterprise AI
In this article, author Monte Zweben discusses data science architecture, containerization, and how new solutions like Feature Store can help with the full lifecycle of machine learning processes.
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Culture & Methods Trends Report March 2021
The most significant impact on culture and methods in 2021 is the disruption caused by COVID-19. We look at what's needed for good remote and the impact of bad remote, how management practices are evolving, and the importance of people skills for technologists. Paying attention to ethical issues, diversity and inclusion, tech for good, employee experience and psychological safety are important.
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Serverless Functions for Microservices? Probably Yes, But Stay Flexible to Change
When designing cloud-native systems, it is important to accommodate freedom to change deployment strategy, from FaaS to containers or VMs, for potentially significant savings on cloud bills.
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Network Edge 5G Computing Technologies Predicted to Make Dramatic Changes to Business Operations
Implementing network edge 5G technologies can offer many advantages, but also presents challenges for your team. In this article, we’ll take a look at promise and risk of network edge 5G models.
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Blockchain Node Providers and How They Work
In this article, we will review the concept of a blockchain node, the problems a developer might face while deploying a node, and the working principle of Blockchain-as-a-Service providers, which simplify the integration of the blockchain into products, maintaining wallets, or keeping the blockchain in sync.
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Sociotechnical Implications of Using Machines as Teammates
AI has become more than just a tool; it is now meriting consideration as an additional teammate. While this increases a project’s efficiency and technical rigor, AI teammates bring a fresh set of challenges around social integration, team dynamics, trust, and control. This article provides an overview of sociotechnical frameworks and strategies to address concerns with using machines as teammates.
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Testing Quarkus Web Applications: Writing Clean Component Tests
In this article, we will learn how to write clean integration tests for Quarkus applications. We will see how we can write simple and clean tests for the following scenarios: a mail client, security with RBAC, testing using containers, and rest clients.