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GitHub Universe 2024, what a blast!

Xebia

These edits are applied directly in the editor, and you can quickly review them in the full context of the surrounding code. Pull Request integration with Workspace With Copilot Workspace in pull requests, you can now rapidly refine, validate, and use Copilot-generated co de suggestions as a co de review.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

Test automation is not a project or a one-off—it is part of the development lifecycle and should be seen as its own system that needs to evolve over time as the requirements and system under test change and mature. principles of testing (popularized by the book Clean Code by Robert C Martin ). Prerequisites. Independent.

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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time

CircleCI

How do you turn complicated, far-flung systems like our widely-distributed system of humans into teams? When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. It’s our career-growth framework for engineers.

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Simulation Theory, Observability, and Modern Software Practices

Honeycomb

The 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard is widely read and cited within academic circles but also permeates popular culture, influencing films, literature, and art. In software development, the real can be seen as the initial design and requirement specifications—the ideal system as imagined by its creators.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software.

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Tips for Onboarding New Hires Remotely

LaunchDarkly

Our People (HR) team creates a Clubhouse ticket (project management software) that assigns tasks and due dates for everything ranging from granting the employee system access with IT to giving them branded swag to booking all their core meetings. Internally, our onboarding process starts immediately after the offer is signed.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

But to give credit where it’s due: it’s natural for startup founders to look for ways to get more out of their team, and yet it doesn’t seem to be as natural to recognize successes by granting new titles and roles. A knack for systems thinking, paired with equal interest in both human & technological systems.