Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Why do people apply TDD? Learn about the actual goal and values hidden under the surface of Test-Driven Development. What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. It is a vehicle to drive development. TDD and the Values of XP.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains.

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CIO

JULY 22, 2024

The widespread disruption caused by the recent CrowdStrike software glitch, which led to a global outage of Windows systems, has sent shockwaves through the IT community. Organizations and CISOs must review their cloud strategies, and the automatic updating of patches should be discouraged. Microsoft said around 8.5

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Henrik Warne

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

I like to use Test-Driven Development (TDD) when coding. However, in some circumstances, TDD is more of a hinderance than a help. Last week, I came across examples of where I developed new functionality without using TDD. Our system takes in values from an external source. Avoiding Premature Tests.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Early use cases include code generation and documentation, test case generation and test automation, as well as code optimization and refactoring, among others.

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The Programmer's Paradox

MARCH 16, 2023

It all has to be very reactive; you keep fiddling with the code until it gets traction. Under those conditions, it doesn’t make sense to cross all the t’s and dot the i’s as the life expectancy of the code is weeks or months. A big problem in development, particularly when a lot of people are introverts, is communication.

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2024

One such initiative involves developing a toolset for assessing a customer’s situation. This toolset (working title: Truffleswine) allows us to retrieve relevant data from systems quickly, which in turn helps us ask the right questions sooner and clarify business cases for improvement using actual data.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, organizations are contemplating Generative AI’s impact on software development. While the potential of Generative AI in software development is exciting, there are still risks and guardrails that need to be considered. Therefore, the technology will only be as good as the data provided.

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Henrik Warne

JUNE 19, 2022

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. He has also worked for several years as a developer.

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the fast-paced world of software development, writing clean and maintainable code is not just a good practice; it’s a crucial factor in determining the success of a project. Code Organization Modularization: Breaking down your code into small, manageable modules is akin to organizing a cluttered room.

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Henrik Warne

JULY 12, 2021

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. What I Liked The Most.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Accelerating vulnerability remediation with genAI Although the responsibilities of developers, security professionals, and operations teams overlap, their communications are often hampered by the inability to quickly grasp esoteric terms that are specific to each discipline. When everyone is on the same page, collaboration is more effective.

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The Crazy Programmer

APRIL 14, 2021

Virtual desktops are preinstalled copies of operating systems on the cloud. It helps in isolating the desktop environment from the existing system that is accessible on any device. All of the high-end processing tasks and heavy lifting operating system work is carried out on the cloud and not the existing system.

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CIO

AUGUST 26, 2024

The reality is that risky code has a second insidious cost beyond the breaches themselves. Your infrastructure bills keep creeping higher, too, from bloated systems no one dares refactor. Insecure code acts like a silent tax siphoning away time, money, and morale across engineering organizations, big and small.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Companies must address these issues proactively through well-defined policies that guide AI development, deployment and usage. An AI policy serves as a framework to ensure that AI systems align with ethical standards, legal requirements and business objectives. Providing such clarity builds confidence in AI decision-making.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 16, 2022

Code reviews were introduced with the intention of improving code quality, developers review each other’s code during a code review to ensure software quality, usually prior to merging the code. Code Review Process is Critical. Over-the-Shoulder” review.

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Henrik Warne

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. In my case, we were 17 people let go that day, including 8 developers. Next, I went through my list of companies I would like to work for, and looked to see if they had any open developer roles. Here is what I learnt from the process.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

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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AWS Machine Learning - AI

AUGUST 21, 2024

Customer reviews can reveal customer experiences with a product and serve as an invaluable source of information to the product teams. By continually monitoring these reviews over time, businesses can recognize changes in customer perceptions and uncover areas of improvement.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. 61% of respondents rated the performance of OSS as being superior compared to proprietary software.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI is the next leap forward beyond traditional AI to systems that are capable of handling complex, multi-step activities utilizing components called agents. He believes these agentic systems will make that possible, and he thinks 2025 will be the year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. They have no goal.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

AI-generated code promises to reshape cloud-native application development practices, offering unparalleled efficiency gains and fostering innovation at unprecedented levels. This dichotomy underscores the need for a nuanced understanding between AI-developed code and security within the cloud-native ecosystem.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Rather, it is now viewed as a central source for workforce development, assisting employees in growing and contributing towards organizational goals as contributors themselves. These are characterized by the totality of development of employees and constant feedback, collaboration, as well as the achievement of measurable results.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The promise the approach has for impacting business workflows has organizations such as Aflac, Atlantic Health System, Legendary Entertainment, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory already pursuing the technology. CRM leader Salesforce has since centered its strategy around agentic AI, with the announcement of Agentforce.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The UL team will be asking questions as well as analyzing code. Would the workers handling the value-add genAI code know the answers to those questions? I’ve worked with UL in the past and respect the quality of their work, [but] this rating system risks oversimplifying the complexity of enterprise needs. “The

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2023

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. It’s for speed to market,” says CTO Vikram Ramani.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence. Image Credits: AppMap.

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Dzone - DevOps

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Code review is a popular and one of the most critical software development processes used to improve code quality, consistency, share knowledge, and much more. Code review can have an important function of teaching developers something new about a language, a framework, or general software design principles.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A 2021 survey from CRM software vendor SugarCRM found that 50% of companies don’t know how to access customer data across their marketing, sales and service systems, while 53% said the administrative burdens of their CRM software causes friction for their sales team. In the worst case, the consequences can be severe.

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

LambdaTest has today emerged as a popular name especially in the field of cross-browser testing, helping businesses and developers to ensure the functionality and compatibility of their web applications over a wide variety of devices and browsers. What is LambdaTest?

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Make sure production environment differs from developer environments in as many ways as possible. Encourage communal ownership of systems.

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CIO

JULY 6, 2023

When presented by the new Supply Chain Due Diligence Act ( SCDDA) in Germany, PwC realized their clients would need tools and processes to automate evaluation of suppliers. Managing risk takes teamwork The team at PwC developed the CYVC application using SAP tools along with PwC’s best practice risk analysis methodology.

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Netlify

MARCH 4, 2020

The code review is a critical part of life as a professional developer: in most engineering organizations, no code gets checked in without at least a second look from another engineer. To solve this, Netlify’s UX team developed shared terminology for code reviews that we call the Feedback Ladder!

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2024

With each passing day, new devices, systems and applications emerge, driving a relentless surge in demand for robust data storage solutions, efficient management systems and user-friendly front-end applications. Every organization follows some coding practices and guidelines. billion user details.

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CIO

JULY 31, 2023

With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. The real problems are usually centered around what the software is supposed to do.

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The Crazy Programmer

APRIL 6, 2021

pdflayer is an API used by developers for seamless automated conversion of high-quality HTML to PDF on any platform (websites, applications). The lightweight RESTful API enables developers to generate highly customizable PDFs from URLs and HTML. To fully customize and configure PDFs, developers can make use of optional parameters.

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