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Beyond API Compatibility: Understanding the Full Impact of Breaking Changes
In this article, we address the most contentious and misinterpreted parts of the SemVer standard, i.e backward compatibility and breaking changes. With the proliferation of SaaS APIs for Generative AI continuing, now is a good time for a retrospection on what constitutes a breaking change and how you can trade off backward compatibility and upgradability with modernization and iterability.
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Agile Rehab: Replacing Process Dogma with Engineering to Achieve True Agility
Struggling with your "agile transformation?" Is your scaling framework not providing the outcomes you hoped for? In this article, we’ll discuss how teams in a large enterprise replaced heavy agile processes with Conway’s Law and better engineering to migrate from quarterly to daily value delivery to the end users.
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How to Sustain Quality and Velocity in a JavaScript or TypeScript Project?
The JavaScript language and its ever-changing ecosystem of packages and practices can make codebases quickly become hard to maintain. The resulting loss of development velocity and/or code quality can be prevented without rewriting everything from scratch, nor pausing the development of new features. In this article, we have analyzed a few best practices to help avoid that.
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Managing the Carbon Emissions Associated with Generative AI
There’s an increasing concern about the energy use and corresponding carbon emissions of generative AI models. And while the concerns may be overhyped, they still require attention, especially as generative AI becomes integrated into our modern life. Factors such as model architecture, transparency and quantization of models are required to decrease carbon emission from AI systems.
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Thinking Deductively to Understand Complex Software Systems
Thinking differently can allow us to approach problems in new ways. With testing, approaching the problem with a negative approach can lead to more thorough test cases.
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Effective Test Automation Approaches for Modern CI/CD Pipelines
Shifting left can be used to improve test design and lead to faster, more effective CI/CD pipelines. By focusing on building effective and efficient tests, CI/CD runs can quickly return feedback.
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AIOps: Site Reliability Engineering at Scale
AIOps can simplify and streamline processes which can reduce the mental burden on employees while improving communication and collaboration between departments.
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How Not to Use the DORA Metrics to Measure DevOps Performance
The DORA metrics are the de facto measuring stick but they can be used incorrectly and drive poor behavior and performance. When using any metrics, a strong focus on the end goal must be maintained.
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Adopting an API Maturity Model to Accelerate Innovation
As your APIs gain more popularity, API sprawl can become an issue. A top-down governance approach is best suited to managing APIs at scale.
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Accelerating the Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle with GitOps
Building secure software can be complicated and time-consuming. By employing a GitOps model, security can be safely separated from development, simplifying the delivery process and increasing velocity.
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Improving CI/CD Pipelines through Observability
CI/CD pipelines are a vital addition to any workflow, but they can be further improved by the selective addition of observability. This article covers what data to monitor, which metrics to track, and how to best visualize the collected data.
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How Visual Thinking Can Help Teams Get Clarity, Be More Creative, and Have More Inclusive Meetings
Visual thinking is a way of making sense of the world through images, putting thoughts into pictures. This article is here to help you understand about visual thinking, and how you could use it to support yourself and your teams to create a more inclusive, creative and collaborative culture at work.