Martin Fowler

MARCH 6, 2024

Their article shares the methodology they developed, their observations, and some common fears and insights shared by the participating team members. Initial fears were overcome and teams discovered the benefits of frequently rotating pairs. They learned that pair swapping frequently greatly enhances the benefits of pairing.

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Martin Fowler

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In the third article on the Bottlenecks of Scaleups, Rick Kick and Kennedy Collins talk about the bottleneck that occurs when friction develops between product and engineering.

Engineering 340

Engineering Development 340

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Media Matters last Thursday published an article with screenshots showing ads from IBM, Apple, Oracle […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging defamation by a news organization over claims that major companies had ads appear next to antisemitic content. All rights reserved.

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Martin Fowler

MAY 21, 2024

My colleague Matteo Vaccari has written an article on how to use TDD to test drive these templates using xunit-style tools which can be run easily from the command line or as part of build scripts. While these can be tested through end-to-end tests running in the browser, such tests are slow and more work to maintain than unit tests.

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Juntao Qiu completes his article on modularizing react applications by identifying that the last change smelled of Shotgun Surgery and taking the steps to fix it.

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Applications 284

TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

The following subscriber-only articles should serve as a foundation for founders building an AI startup on or […] © 2023 TechCrunch. OpenAI’s impressive technology stack led to a wave of startups building on top of its models and offerings. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Technology 266

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In this Ask Sophie article, I describe how the IEP program works and will dive into how to qualify for IEP and offer alternatives. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Programming 253

Programming How To 253

Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A second article exploring the challenges Etsy faced as it scaled up. Tim Cochran relates how CTO Mike Fisher identified problems with the product delivery process, built a cross-functional Product Delivery Culture team to analyze the situation, and began an improvement program based on lean thinking and the ideas of Marty Cagan.

Culture 286

Culture Programming 286

Martin Fowler

APRIL 24, 2023

While working with my colleague Mike Mason on a forthcoming article, we asked Stable Diffusion to come up with portraits of technical authors. We thought the results were worth sharing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Instead of offering a standard news aggregator experience, Capsule’s mission is to become the “Spotify for news” by combining AI technology and human editorial curation to provide a news-reading experience that transforms news articles, newsletter snippets and even tweets […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

Technology 281

Technology Media 281

Martin Fowler

APRIL 10, 2024

Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave complete their article about introducing seams into mainframe systems by looking how we can use data replication. Done well, it can provide a rapid start to a displacement effort, but we must be wary of it coupling new systems to the legacy schema more…

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

” News publishers and independent writers are encouraged to share their articles on Post News under a paywall. The idea is that this would allow users to pay for individual articles from a variety of news sources. The platform describes itself as a place to access “premium news content without subscriptions or ads.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As I hinted in my article covering this much-anticipated launch, ID was Amo’s first idea. Less than three weeks ago, French startup Amo released ID. Today, the social consumer startup is releasing its second app called Capture.

Social 268

Social Company 268

Martin Fowler

APRIL 26, 2023

He's also an skillful writer, with a couple of books under his belt together with plenty of writing for Thoughtworks, including a regular macro-trends article and contributing to the Thoughtworks Technology Radar. My colleague Mike Mason is an experienced software developer and architect.

ChatGPT 273

ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Software Development Trends 273

Martin Fowler

JUNE 5, 2024

Matteo Vaccari completes his article on testing template-generated HTML, by looking at how to use TDD with pages that make calls to the server.

TDD 229

TDD Testing How To 229

Martin Fowler

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tim and Prem finish their article on effective onboarding. They discuss the value of pair programming, setting up personal environments, and removing friction from the process.

Programming 229

Programming 229

Martin Fowler

MAY 29, 2024

He continues his article to show how he does this by parameterizing the tests. Testing templates for generating HTML leads to tests that are very similar. Matteo Vaccari wisely likes to separate the common elements of tests from those that vary. The resulting tests are easier to write, and more importantly, faster to understand and modify.

Testing 226

Testing 226

TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

You can read all about the tech in our previous article, but what is it actually like in person? We previewed Skyted’s voice-capturing mask last week, but when I came across the startup at CES 2024, I had to check it out for myself in person. “We launched a mobile application that will give you […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

Games 226

Games Mobile Applications Hardware 226

Martin Fowler

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Alessio Ferri , Tom Coggrave , and Shodhan Sheth complete their article on what they have learned from using GenAI with legacy systems. GenAI is also useful for identifying areas of dead code, and has promise for better translations of a system between platforms and languages.

System 228

System 228

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Secondary venture activity has ebbed and flowed over the last few months, following a particularly busy summer. But 2024 may see investors returning for good, writes Rebecca Szkutak. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Correction: A previous version of this article’s headline incorrectly stated the fund size as $200 million. The headline has been updated to reflect that it is a $20 million fund.

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Tools Blockchain Development Infrastructure 315

Martin Fowler

AUGUST 22, 2023

Sarah Taraporewalla continues her article on how to create an integrated business and technology strategy by looking at questions raised by two strategic directions that support people : culture and internal systems.

Culture 244

Culture Meeting Strategy Marketing 244

TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Ads and in-house promos are everywhere — even in the middle of articles as you scroll down. Image Credits: Post screenshot “You go to many news sites today and you get bombarded by these ads, email capture forms and subscriptions…you just wanted to read one article. The highest article got a $300 CPM.

Technical Review 258

Technical Review Media Weak Development Team Journal 258

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Bell’s comments came during an all-hands meeting with staff, following a Wall Street Journal article […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Journal 238

Journal Meeting Report Company 238

TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Rather than rehash all that here, I’ll point you to some of our recent articles on the topic and just summarize: The two fintech startups have recently grown (much) more competitive. In that same article, sources told Alex that Stripe saw gross revenue of about $12 billion in 2021, up 60% year-over-year.

Fintech 322

Fintech Report Banking Compliance 322

Martin Fowler

MARCH 19, 2024

Abi Noda and Tim Cochran complete their article on qualitative metrics by outlining how to capture them effectively. They discuss the mental steps that people go through as they respond to a survey and provide a template to get started when assessing developer experience.

Metrics 217

Metrics How To Survey Development 217

Martin Fowler

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Bill Codding, Birgitta Boeckeler, Camilla Crispim, Chris Ford, Gabriel Sadaka, Matteo Vaccari, Michael Chaffee, and Unmesh Joshi reviewed drafts of this article and suggested improvements. 1: The source for Conway's law is an article written by Melvin Conway in 1968.

Technical Advisors 290

Technical Advisors Software Review Architecture Journal 290

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. “Entrepreneurs navigating the later stages of a startup face a mine field of funding options, and not all of them are suitable for their business,” writes David Spreng, founder and CEO of Runway Growth Capital. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In this article, John Winsor offers one, based on the successful work that he and Jin Paik have done in recent years helping companies experiment with and adopt digital-talent platforms at scale.

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Company How To Artificial Inteligence Machine Learning 140

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Today we’re looking at Q3 venture data coming out of Europe. Overall, European venture capital data is down sharply. But as my colleagues Anna Heim and Alex Wilhelm write, European venture is “down, but not out.” Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

Data 224

Data 224

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This article describes a simple strategic tool that your organization can use as a framework to assess gen AI maturity and build the capabilities needed to create and capture value from AI.

How To 142

How To Performance Organization Tools 142

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Australia and New Zealand are facing the same challenges as the rest of tech: valuations have come back down, early-stage funding is up, and investors want their businesses to focus on sustainable long-term growth and a clear path to revenue. All rights reserved.

Sustainability 217

Sustainability 217

TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

This article was updated at 5:58pm EDT on May 23 to reflect that Bai and Phadnis had a phone call with Bromberg after Bromberg posted the Twitter thread. Both provided additional comments to TechCrunch following the call, which are now reflected in the article. .

Fintech 345

Fintech Systems Review Technical Review Marketing 345

Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Once we've designed our initial data products, Kiran Prakash finishes his article by leading us through the next steps : identifying common patterns, improving the developer experience, and handling governance.

Data 160

Data Government Development 160

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But even companies that have embraced AI are still struggling with aspects of the budgeting process in today’s complex and rapidly changing business environment. Why is that? When does it make sense to rely on AI, and when does it not?

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Budget Company Marketing Tools 145

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This article offers 12 exercises to help you expand the way you think about prompting GenAI. However, where AI starts to “come alive” is when you create something unique — something that wouldn’t have been achieved without a human and machine collaboration.

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Training Generative AI Exercises Culture 144

The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

In this article, we’ll delve into the best practices that can elevate your coding skills, streamline collaboration, and ultimately lead to more efficient development processes. Code Organization Modularization: Breaking down your code into small, manageable modules is akin to organizing a cluttered room.

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Software Review Systems Review Construction Testing 214