Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

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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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. The book apparently grew out of lecture notes from a course on software testing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Women engineers often face workplace and career challenges that their male colleagues don’t because they remain a minority in the profession: Depending on how you count, women make up just 13% to 25% of engineering jobs. Fowler’s ordeal cast a spotlight on the harassment women engineers have to deal with in the workplace.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Diao’s first project at the company after starting in 2014 was building a rules engine called Mastermind to fight fraud. That engine, he says, allowed risk analysts to build and rollout rules without the help of engineers. However, that startup didn’t have resources like Uber to build such an engine in house.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. So what’s its story? But absent a demo, we have only his word to go on.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Infrastructure as code (IaC) has been gaining wider adoption among DevOps teams in recent years, but the complexities of data center configuration and management continue to create problems — and opportunities. This requires investment in engineering talent, the platform and engineering practices.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The time when Hardvard Business Review posted the Data Scientist to be the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” is more than a decade ago [1]. Operations ML teams are focused on stability and reliability Ops ML teams have roles like Platform Engineers, SRE’s, DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers, IT Managers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Engineering teams face steep challenges when it comes to staying on schedule, and keeping to those schedules can have an impact on the entire organization. Acumen , an Israeli engineering operations startup announced a $7 million seed investment today to help tackle this problem.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 2, 2021

The book Software Engineering at Google provides insights into the practices and tools used at Google to develop and maintain software with respect to time, scale, and the tradeoffs that all engineers make in development. By Ben Linders, Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. AI will handle the rest of the software development roles, including security and compliance reviews, he predicts. “At

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2024

For instance, a skilled developer might not just debug code but also optimize it to improve system performance. HackerEarths technical assessments , coding challenges, and project-based evaluations help evaluate candidates on their problem-solving, critical thinking, and technical capabilities. Here are the key traits to look for: 1.

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CIO

JULY 12, 2024

Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. These emissions include both the energy that physical hardware consumes to run software programs and those associated with manufacturing the hardware itself. How do we even know it’s green?

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Joby Aviation , a California-based company developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOL) for commercial passenger service , announced the acquisition of Avionyx , an aerospace software engineering firm, on the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility stage on Wednesday.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This can involve assessing a companys IT infrastructure, including its computer systems, cybersecurity profile, software performance, and data and analytics operations, to help determine ways a business might better benefit from the technology it uses. Indeed lists various salaries for IT consultants.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Theres a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. They were succeeded by programmers writing machine instructions as binary code to be input one bit at a time by flipping switches on the front of a computer. No code became a buzzword. I dont buy it. It is not the end of programming.

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The Crazy Programmer

MAY 26, 2023

Software engineering is one of the most sought-after careers in the current labor market in today’s world of digital transformation and technological advancement, where the demand for specialized technical skills is constantly increasing, and the need for developing custom software solutions flourishes.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 13, 2024

San Francisco-based startup, Cognition AI, is trying to completely rehaul the software engineering landscape through its new AI assistant, Devin. The AI assistant can plan and execute complex engineering tasks, learning from its experiences and rectifying mistakes along the way.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It’s using AI to notify online shoppers when the products they’re looking to buy are fake listings or when reviews they’re reading on marketplaces like Amazon or eBay are a fiction. After he’d nabbed his master’s degree in software engineering, he launched the company in earnest.

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

is how you operate your code; observability 2.0 is about how you develop your code Observability 1.0 has historically been infra-centric, and often makes do with logs and metrics software already emits, or that can be extracted with third-party tools Observability 2.0 is how you operate your code; observability 2.0

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OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

The following is a guest post from Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board Member for the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) and industry consultant for 5 decades. In a previous post , we looked at the magnitude and impact of the soaring cost of poor software quality in the US and where those hidden costs are typically found.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Founders Valentina Ratner (formerly Toll Villagra) and Kyle Dumont met at Harvard while both were getting a joint engineering master’s and MBA in 2019. They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development. “It

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But the industry is now bifurcating along an infrastructure fault line, and the overlap between infrastructure-oriented engineers and operationally-minded engineers is swiftly eroding. Engineers who love this work increasingly have a choice to make. We call those teams “platform engineering.” As we should.

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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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Mobilunity

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Currently, 27% of global companies utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning for activities like coding and code reviewing, and it is projected that 76% of companies will incorporate these technologies in the next several years. What are the roles of AI engineers in project development? Healthcare.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 7, 2025

Through advanced data analytics, software, scientific research, and deep industry knowledge, Verisk helps build global resilience across individuals, communities, and businesses. Verisk has a governance council that reviews generative AI solutions to make sure that they meet Verisks standards of security, compliance, and data use.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Software engineers have a host of tooling to organize their projects, chief being Git software like GitLab or GitHub, but hardware engineers today lack that same organizing principle. Image Credits: Flow Engineering. Today, the company announced an $8.5 million seed round.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 13, 2021

Experienced front-end, back-end, or a full-stack software engineer are in high demand. According to stats from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics , by 2029, software engineers’ employment will surge by 22%. The Three Main Layers of Software Development. There are three layers of software development overlap.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Jit , a startup that helps developers automate product security by codifying their security plans and workflows as code that can then be managed in a code repository like GitHub, today announced that it has raised a $38.5 Jit streamlines technical security for engineering teams over compliance checkboxes all while reducing spend.

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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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InnovationM

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Linting is a static code analysis tool that automatically scans your code for potential errors, stylistic issues, and inconsistencies. It helps you maintain code quality, consistency, and readability by identifying and flagging potential problems early in the development process. What is Linting? Why Use Linting?

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The Crazy Programmer

MARCH 20, 2021

Google is the most used search engine that has answers for almost every queries people search. Google is one of the world’s highest-paid search engine and internet-related service providers. Also Read: How to become a Software Engineer in India? Also Read: Software Engineer Salary in India.

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TechEmpower CTO

MARCH 4, 2024

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO. So congratulations!

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OverOps

APRIL 17, 2019

Earlier this month, Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board member of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) joined our VP of Solution Engineering Eric Mizell for a webinar examining the cost of poor quality software. Herb’s CISQ report estimates that, in 2018, poor quality software cost organizations $2.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Now, a startup that is building tools to make it easier for engineers to implement the two simultaneously is announcing a round of growth funding to continue expanding its operations. “Time and time again I hear from software engineers and data scientists about the value Gretel offers.

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