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Minimising the Impact of Machine Learning on our Climate

This article introduces the field of green software engineering, showing the Green Software Foundation’s Software Carbon Intensity Specification, which is used to estimate the carbon footprint of software, and discusses ideas on how to make machine learning greener. It aims to give you the tools to take an active part in the climate solution

Sara Bergman
on May 30, 2023
Culture & Methods

Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery

Successful projects start with robust discovery. What if your project is modernizing your tangled old legacy system or migrating all your workloads to the cloud? This article presents a guided approach to starting your next architecture modernization project with a Domain-Driven Discovery (DDD), illustrated with a medical supply company that is migrating its core systems to the cloud.

Ryan Shriver
on May 12, 2023 3
Culture & Methods

Making Time for Our Mental Health and Well-Being within the Hybrid / Remote Workplace

So often, well-intended hybrid/remote organisations and leaders will focus on surface level mental health/well-being support initiatives. This article will highlight the importance of addressing this important topic from a holistic perspective, addressing systemic processes and policies to ensure they have the “whole person” in mind.

Helen Bartimote
on May 01, 2023
Culture & Methods

Respect. Support. Connect. The Manager’s Role in Building a Great Remote Team

As managers, we face challenges in terms of needs, accessibility, gender, nationalities, and other conditions that influence our teams and working environments. We cannot build projects based on Excel sheets only, not considering peoples’ preferences and options for personal growth. We need to see real people – even if we meet them in a virtual working environment only.

Kinga Witko
on Apr 26, 2023 1
Culture & Methods

Dark Side of DevOps - the Price of Shifting Left and Ways to Make it Affordable

Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular. Moving things to earlier stages of software development, empowering engineers. Yet, what is the cost? What does it mean for the developers who are involved? What are the solutions that can help you keep DevOps and Shifting Left? What can we do to break a grip of the dark side? Let’s find out!

Mykyta Protsenko
on Apr 21, 2023
Java

Unleash the Power of Open Source Java Profilers: Comparing VisualVM, JMC, and async-profiler

This article conveys the foundational concepts and different types of Open Source Java profilers. It allows you to choose the best-suited profiler for your needs and comprehend how these tools work in principle. The aim of a profiler is to obtain information on the program execution so that a developer can see how much time a method executed in a given period.

Johannes Bechberger
on Apr 13, 2023
Culture & Methods

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.

Gemma Honour
on Mar 22, 2023
Culture & Methods

Technology's Carbon Impact and What You Can Do about It

Achieving a balance between growth and efficiency can be a formidable task. However, software engineers can play a critical role at the nexus of both. This article discusses open source software tools and methodologies for balancing carbon with growth across IT organizations, and provides actionable approaches to greening IT organizations.

Marco Valtas Lisa McNally
on Mar 16, 2023
Cloud

What Are Cloud-Bound Applications?

The increasing adoption of application-first cloud services is causing applications to blend with the cloud services at levels much deeper than before. The runtime boundaries between the application and the cloud are shifting from virtual machines to containers and functions.

Bilgin Ibryam
on Mar 09, 2023
Culture & Methods

How Skyscanner Embedded a Team Metrics Culture for Continuous Improvement

This article explains why Skyscanner decided not just to deploy a tool, but to think about this as changing their engineering management culture to being one that values and utilises metrics to drive greater improvement at scale. It shows how they evaluated tools to find one that would enable their teams and reinforce the cultural change that was the fundamental goal of this exercise.

Ramsay Ashby Laz Allen
on Mar 08, 2023
Culture & Methods

Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse

In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges. To wrap up, he shares some of his thoughts on the role of software testers as we move towards a future of testing in the metaverse.

Tariq King
on Feb 24, 2023
Culture & Methods

How I Contributed as a Tester to a Machine Learning System: Opportunities, Challenges and Learnings

Have you ever wondered about systems based on machine learning? In those cases, testing takes a backseat. And even if testing is done, it’s done mostly by developers themselves. A tester’s role is not clearly portrayed. Testers usually struggle to understand ML-based systems and explore what contributions they can make. This is a journey of assuring quality of ML-based systems as a tester.

Shivani Gaba
on Feb 16, 2023 1