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PHP, Seriously!
Keith Adams examines the strengths that made PHP a dominant language in its niche, highlighting Facebook's attempts at remedying its inconsistencies and misfeatures while maintaining its strengths.
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Scaling Engineering Culture at Twitter
Raffi Krikorian discusses the software engineering challenges met re-architecting Twitter and the cultural change impact that came with it.
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The Facebook Mobile Release Process
Christian Legnitto offers insight in some of the tools and processes used by Facebook for pushing new updates to their mobile apps.
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User Story Mapping in Practice
Steve Rogalsky explains the basics of user story maps based on real case studies, showing pictures depicting projects’ progress and how that influenced iterative development and process visualization.
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Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane
John Hughes discusses automated testing techniques that can catch more code defects, with war stories from the likes of Ericsson, Volvo Cars, and Basho Technologies.
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Bringing Windows into Submission with Puppet and PowerShell
Paul Stack discusses using PowerShell and Puppet to administer Windows machines, showing how to configure a Windows server and set up a development environment in short time.
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An API for Distributed Computing
Cliff Click introduces a coding style & API for in-memory analytics that handles datasets from 1K to 1TB without changing a line of code and clusters with TB of RAM and hundreds of CPUs.
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Getting Our Brains to Sing Together
Dario Nardi shares key insights on how the brain works and suggestions on tapping the power of individuals’ talents in order to be put together at work.
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Spring Scala
Ramnivas Laddad and Arjen Poutsma discuss the Spring Scala project and its features, demoing a real REST-based application with a Spring and Scala backend and AngularJS frontend.
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Tests
Seb Rose explores the choices a team needs to make when considering which Agile test practices to adopt, urging teams to practice, practice, practice until they are happy with the way they code.
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Top 10 Agile Gotcha's and How to Recover
Michael Sahota discusses top 10 Agile gotchas: when release is ready, sprint meetings take too long, no retrospectives, people aren’t working together, getting new stories, stand-ups are boring, etc.
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Culture Hacking: Common Platform
Jim and Michele McCarthy discuss the Core Protocols that make a common platform for an organization’s culture design.