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Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design

Henrik Warne

I really liked A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. The focus is on how to structure systems to make them easy to understand and work with. The author is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford, but he has also spent 14 years developing commercial software. The book starts with a good chapter on complexity.

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Have we reached the end of ‘too expensive’ for enterprise software?

CIO

Generative artificial intelligence ( genAI ) and in particular large language models ( LLMs ) are changing the way companies develop and deliver software. Chatbots are used to build response systems that give employees quick access to extensive internal knowledge bases, breaking down information silos. An overview.

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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

TechCrunch

Overheard at a VC/startup conference recently: Product market fit is like a product going around from weirdly shaped customer group to weirdly shaped customer group, like that old kid’s book “ Are you my mommy? 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Why do people apply TDD? What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. After many years of doing TDD daily, I think part of the reason is that some people do not fully grasp the reasons behind TDD. TDD and the Values of XP.

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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

I recently finished Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide by Maurício Aniche , and I really liked it. I have been coding for a long time and I think I have been writing pretty good tests for the features I have implemented. Even so, I found this book quite valuable. Structural Testing and Code Coverage.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

TechCrunch

This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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GitHub Universe 2024, what a blast!

Xebia

The option to see how the same prompt would result in results si de by si de using different mo de ls is very helpful when you are trying to integrate AI into your own software. These edits are applied directly in the editor, and you can quickly review them in the full context of the surrounding code.