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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. Particularly the chapters on how to systematically come up with test cases based on the specification, inputs, outputs and the structure of the implementation.

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Four tips to better structure Terraform projects

Xebia

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) codifies the provisioning of infrastructure. This way it can take advantage of software engineering best practices to produce faster and consistent deployment of infrastructure. One of the leading IaC software tools is Hashicorp’s Terraform and with the return of Hashiconf to Amsterdam I decided to share my personal recommendations on how to better structure your Terraform projects!

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FDA orders Juul to stop selling its vaping products in the US

TechCrunch

The axe has fallen for e-cigarette maker Juul. The FDA ordered the company to stop selling and distributing its ubiquitous vaping devices in the U.S. Thursday, a dramatic end for a company that dominated the e-cigarette market and was valued at $38 billion at the top of its game. Juul will no longer be able to sell its vapes nor its 5% or 3% tobacco and menthol-flavored pods in the U.S. without “risk[ing] enforcement action” from the U.S.

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What We Learnt From Target’s Diversity And Inclusion Strategy

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Having a diversity and inclusion strategy for an organization helps foster a diverse workplace where everyone feels comfortable and accepted and to leverage diversity as a driving force for growth and competitive advantage. Before a recruitment firm develops a diversity and inclusion strategy, it’s critical to recognize the negative effects of non-inclusive policies, processes, and behavior by recognizing the barriers and opportunities that influence the diversity of hire and continuing ta

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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How to Become a Software Developer Fast?

The Crazy Programmer

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) forecasts a 22% growth in employment rate for software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers from 2019 to 2029 — which exceeds, by the 4% average for all employers. Software development as a skill is lucrative , regardless of if you have a software development degree or not. In this article, we will discuss how to become a software developer fast.

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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

TechCrunch

While Africa’s health systems are still reeling from the effects of the COVID pandemic, the adoption of digital health services has been revved in some countries. Telemedicine, the standout offering, witnessed massive adoption during the pandemic, and in the last five years, no other service has been launched more by healthtech startups. However, a particular segment has achieved scale faster within the past year.

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Hiring DEV Talent: SQL Interview Questions

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Hiring DEV Talent: SQL Interview Questions. With SQL taking its place among the most popular developing languages for the management of data, as per this 2021 report by Statista , SQL is pretty much the most popular language, and hiring developers for the same is a smart move to make. This is why it is quite important for companies to take interest in it and to further make use of it.

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Survey Shows Correlation Between Open Source, DevOps Skills Demand

DevOps.com

A survey published this week by the Linux Foundation suggested enterprise IT organizations now prefer to hire IT professionals that have both open source software and DevOps experience. Conducted in collaboration with edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., the survey polled 1,672 open source professionals and 559 respondents with responsibility for […].

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How to make low code work long term

TechBeacon

Low-code development's popularity has been steadily increasing for years now, with no signs of slowing down. Its appeal is that it gives users the ability to create software applications through a graphical interface, with little or no need for programming in the traditional sense.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Thepeer, an API-based startup that connects African businesses, raises $2.1M, led by Raba Partnership

TechCrunch

Thepeer , an African tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, has raised a $2.1 million seed round led by the Raba Partnership. The news comes a year after the startup raised $220,000 in pre-seed from a handful of angel investors, including Paystack CTO Ezra Olubi and Edenlife CTO Prosper Otemuyiwa. Participating investors in Thepeer’s seed round include RaliCap, Timon Capital, BYLD Ventures, Musha Ventures, Sunu and Uncovered Fund.

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WhiteHat brings new dimension to DAST capabilities at Synopsys

Synopsys

The acquisition of WhiteHat Security, the leading the DAST solution provider, is a step toward a more comprehensive, end-to-end portfolio for AppSec. The post WhiteHat brings new dimension to DAST capabilities at Synopsys appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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Developer’s Guide to Web Application Security

DevOps.com

When it comes to security, there are many vulnerabilities that can leave your website or web app open to attack. In this article, we’ll go over 15 common web application security vulnerabilities and how you can prevent them. 1. Insufficient Cryptography Cryptography is a critical security measure that is used to protect data in transit […].

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Building Transparency into AI Projects

Harvard Business Review

As AI becomes ever more embedded in people’s lives, effective communication with stakeholders can define a product’s success — or failure.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Cryptoys banks a16z funding to build NFTs for kids

TechCrunch

The past several months haven’t been entirely kind to the NFT market — while transaction volume hasn’t stuttered too significantly, the dollar amount invested in the space has been in free fall as cryptocurrency prices have taken a historic dive. With that as background, it might not seem like the best time to launch an NFT platform, let alone one geared toward children.

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2022 Cloud Salary Survey

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Last year, our report on cloud adoption concluded that adoption was proceeding rapidly; almost all organizations are using cloud services. Those findings confirmed the results we got in 2020 : everything was “up and to the right.” That’s probably still true—but saying “everything is still up and to the right” would be neither interesting nor informative.

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TechStrong Con: Downturn Brings Additional Sense of DevOps Urgency

DevOps.com

Regardless of whether the overall economy is experiencing a correction or is on the cusp of a recession, organizations are going to prioritize some projects over others as resources become more constrained. During the “DevOps: Has the Bubble Burst?” panel made up of DevOps executives and investors from venture capital firms that kicked off the […].

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Revisiting '13 programming languages for the future'

TechBeacon

Baseball great Yogi Berra famously said that predictions are hard, especially about the future. Seven years ago, my editors asked me to come up with a list of 13 programming languages that would define the future of coding. Now they've asked me to go back and analyze what I got right and what I got wrong.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Vibrant Planet raises $17M seed round to grow forest restoration SaaS

TechCrunch

For Allison Wolff, the 2018 wildfire season in California marked a turning point. During that record-breaking year , she started asking a lot of questions. “We were in the middle of the 2018 wildfire season, with the Carr Fire, and what I thought at the time was the worst season ever,” Wolff said. “I started asking lots and lots of people — climate scientists I’d worked with, land managers, utility leaders, insurance leaders — why is this happening so catastrophically?

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GitHub Bug Allowed Third-party Apps to Gain Elevated Permissions

Aqua Security

We learned about a bug in GitHub that for about five days at the end of February allowed connected GitHub third-party applications to generate new scoped installation tokens with elevated permissions. For example, if you connected the Codecov app to your GitHub account with read-only access to your repositories, during that window it could have created a new token with write access to them.

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Supergraph: One GraphQL Schema to Rule Them All

DevOps.com

GraphQL has been garnering much interest as a way to seamlessly interact with backend services. The query language is a boon for frontend developers, too, as it conveniently allows you to fetch the specific fields you require, thus eliminating the potential overfetching or underfetching concerns of REST APIs. And as GraphQL adoption matures within organizations, […].

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Dehumanization Is a Feature of Gig Work, Not a Bug

Harvard Business Review

The 40 million Americans who’ve rented out their services to platforms like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash may be canaries in the coal mine of the new world of work.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Strapi lands $31M for its ‘headless’ CMS platform

TechCrunch

Strapi , an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. With the capital, CEO Pierre Burgy tells TechCrunch that the plan is to launch a new product, Strapi Cloud, while bringing in additional tech and solution partners and further developing the Strapi project.

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How Low Code Demands More Creativity From Developers

Dzone - DevOps

This is an article from DZone's 2022 Low Code and No Code Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. Yes, engineering is a science, but it's more and more an art, too. Developers must be at least as creative as the next hacker — and they need to cultivate user empathy. That's why organizations benefit from automating the minutia, allowing devs to focus on novel problem-solving.

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TechStrong Con: Open Source Software Community Needs Security Help

DevOps.com

The only way to make significant improvements in the state of open source security is if more organizations that benefit from open source projects commit to making more resources available to achieve that goal. At the virtual TechStong Con event, executives on an Open Source and DevOps panel called for more contributions from enterprise IT […].

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The Strategic Planning Process

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Laying out your organization’s strategic plan can be overwhelming. Follow these steps to keep your strategic planning process simple and effective. . Strategic planning is an inherently simple process. There are some major tools and steps that you’re going to follow as you pull together your strategic plan. . First, you need to set direction and stay in a lane.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Paris-based Breega closes €250M fund, opens Barcelona office to back Iberian startups

TechCrunch

Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million seed fund, just under a year go. It’s portfolio now includes a number of scaleups including Moneybox, Cuvva, Coverflex and Libeo. Perhaps part of its “secret sauce” is how it has managed to put together an in house-team of experts in growth, talent and comms, of which more later.

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Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone! 11 Tips To “Shake Things Up”

CEO Insider

I want you to imagine that when you wake up tomorrow, everything you do will be done to the best of your ability. You’ll give 110% effort to each activity you’ve planned for your day, disregarding any fears you may have. No obstacles. No negative thinking. No procrastination. Do you think this attitude will impact […]. The post Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone!

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Not Everything That is Necessary Adds Value

DevOps.com

Since the Lean production method for manufacturing arose in the 1930s, organizations everywhere have been seeking ways to apply it to reduce waste and increase productivity. This model has served thousands of companies well, from manufacturing and product design to software development. Yet, one difficulty that comes up when discussing or applying Lean in software […].