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How Getting Feedback from Angry Users Helps to Develop Better Products
Every time you change something in your product, angry users can show up. These users are engaged and they care about your product. Listening to them can help you find golden nuggets of user insight to improve your product.
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GraphQL Syntax Used for a Novel Approach to Schema Validation and Code Generation
Nav Technologies has created an open-source schema definition and code generator that uses GraphQL syntax to define events and message formats. GraphQL was chosen for its expressiveness and familiarity among developers, but it is only used for its syntax; the Nav Schema Architecture (NSA) does not use the GraphQL runtime.
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Dropbox Makes the Android App Faster and More Reliable: Swaps C++ Code for a Native Approach
Dropbox recently published how it made the camera upload process for Android faster and more reliable. Dropbox engineers removed shared Android and iOS C++ code and replaced it with a platform-native Kotlin implementation. The engineers are pleased with the decision to rewrite the process, stating that error rates went down and upload performance greatly improved.
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Easy Google Cloud Solution Architecture Designs with the Architecture Diagramming Tool
Recently, Google released an Architecture Diagramming Tool allowing the creation of architectural diagram of solution architecture with the available Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
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Fast-Track Application Refactoring with the Generally Available AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces
AWS first introduced the preview of AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces, a new capability of AWS Migration Hub, last November at re:Invent 2021. Now, the public cloud provider announced the general availability of the Migration Hub capability.
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Building Quality in for Blockchain Systems
Blockchain technology can be used to build solutions that can naturally deliver better software quality. Using blockchain we can shift to smaller systems that store everything in a contract. We have to understand our data needs and decide what is stored in the chain and what off-chain, and think about how requirements, defects and testing history can be built into the contract models.
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API Architecture Track Recap from QCon Plus
The API Architecture track at QCon Plus featured six speakers and panelists discussing topics relevant to software engineers and architects who design, build, and maintain APIs. The track covered broad concepts such as extensibility and API lifecycles, and featured a showdown between REST, GraphQL, and gRPC to determine the best technology to use when building an API.
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Is SOLID Still Relevant in Modern Software Architecture?
Daniel Orner published a recent article arguing that SOLID principles are still the foundation for modern software architecture. According to Orner, while the practice of software development has changed in the past 20 years, SOLID principles are still the basis of good design. The author explains how they also apply to functional programming and microservices architecture, with examples.
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Google Embraces Large-Screen Android Devices at DevSummit 21
At its recent AndroidDevSummit'21, Google announced a number of new technologies aimed to help developers build better apps across different devices and device factors. Those include Material You for Jetpack Compose, support for large screen with Android 12L, extended Jetpack library, and more.
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Patterns of Legacy Displacement - Thoughtworks Summarizes IT Landscape Evolution
Martin Fowler recently published a series of articles called Patterns of Legacy Displacement. It summarises the authors’ collective experience in replacing legacy systems. They argue that chances of success are increased by dividing such projects into three phases and following the patterns listed for each one.
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PayPal Engineering Teams Implement Premortem Analysis
In a recent blog post, the PayPal engineering team published how it uses premortem analysis as part of its regular software design process. The team adopted a customized version of premortem analysis last year, which highly benefited PayPal engineering. Premortem is a strategy in which a team imagines that a project failed and then works backward to determine what could lead to this failure.
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Spotify's Journey to a Unified Codebase for Its Web and Desktop Clients
Spotify recently published an account of their journey towards a unified codebase for their web and desktop clients. Spotify's team was the owner of a web-player and a separate, full-featured desktop client. Due to having to implement many features twice, they were not shipping at the pace they wanted. Now Spotify created one codebase for both, resulting in an improved development cadence.
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Sentry Migrates Its Frontend to Typescript - Lessons Learned
Mark Story and Priscila Oliveira recently shared lessons learned when converting Sentry’s frontend codebase (one-year effort, 100,000 lines of code) to TypeScript. The pair described a gradual conversion process in which TypeScript progressively replaced JavaScript, types were continuously refined as new TypeScript language features were released, and complex types were built incrementally.
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Virtualizing Design Sprint and UX Workshops
Design sprint and UX workshops can be done virtually using a combination of remote whiteboards and communication platforms. It brings advantages like being able to invite international experts, having remote participants attend, less travelling, smaller carbon footprint, and lower costs.
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Rendering Large Logs in the Browser for GitHub Actions
Rendering large logs in a browser can be a complex task if you want a rich UI including coloring, grouping, search, and permalinks, says GitHub engineer Alberto Gimeno. This is why after testing with both a React and plain JS library, they opted to build their own.