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Reducing Build Time with Observability in the Software Supply Chain
Tools commonly used in production can also be applied to gain insight into the CI/CD pipeline to reduce the build time. Ben Hartshorne, engineer at honeycomb.io, gave the presentation Observability in the SSC: Seeing into Your Build System at QCon San Francisco 2019.
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Making Remote Mob Testing Work
Remote mob testing can be done successfully, but requires suitable communication technology, a moderator who keeps everyone on board, and you need to frequently change the driver between local team members and remotes.
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2020 State of Testing Survey: Call for Participation
The 2020 State of Testing survey is now seeking participation, and aims to provide insights into how the testing profession develops and to recognize testing trends. Anyone completing the survey will receive a complimentary copy of the State of Testing 2020 report once it is published.
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Scaling Tech to Keep Building the Right Product During Hyper-Growth
When your organization is growing fast and steadily, change has to be part of your culture. People are recruited, people leave, and people change teams; you have to learn to adapt fast and keep tech and business synchronized. At FlowCon France 2019 Nicholas Suter and Nicolas Nallet spoke about scaling tech at Younited.
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Scaling Infrastructure as Code at Challenger Bank N26
To launch their banking platform globally in the US, Brazil, and beyond, the challenges bank N26 introduced a new layer for the configuration of regions in their architecture, where product development teams can add application needs. At FlowCon France, Kat Liu presented why and how they introduced this layer, the benefits that it brings, and the things they learned.
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How to Scale Pilots into a Global IT Organization
Scaling pilots into a global IT organization is doable, and if done right, it really works and can help to transform entire companies, said Clemens Utschig. At DevOpsCon Munich 2019 he presented how they go from starting with an idea to scaling it up into the global organization.
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The Importance of Fun in the Workplace
Things at work that make us smile or laugh can improve team cohesion, productivity and organisational performance. Fun can’t be forced, but it can be fostered, said Holly Cummins at FlowCon France 2019, where she spoke about the importance of fun in the workplace.
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Experiences from Mob Programming at an Insurance Startup
What do you do when two developers in your team mention that they have been stuck on a task for three days? At an insurance startup, the whole team decided to try-out mob programming. From the first day they started to mob, their knowledge of the codebase increased. Working together also helped them to get to know each other better and to be more efficient as a team.
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How Deploying Every Feature Branch Enables Fast Product Feedback
Pushing the boundaries of continuous delivery, you can fundamentally change the way people collaborate while building software. Christian Uhl presented at DevOpsCon Munich 2019 how deploying every feature branch using GitLab and Kubernetes helps them to get fast feedback from product owners and stakeholders.
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Usability Testing and Testing APIs with Hallway Testing
Hallway testing can be used to enhance the usability of products and make your UX better. You can also use it to test APIs as Ewa Marchewka, head of software integration and test department at Nokia, presented at TestCon Europe 2019. It’s cheap, straightforward, there’s no need for complicated tools, and it’s fast, getting feedback from the end-user almost instantly.
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What Is Your Superpower? Neurodiversity and Tech at QConSF 2019
In her QCon SF 2019 talk, Elizabeth Schneider compared neurodiversity to superpowers. Once you know that you think differently, and understand how to protect your skills, you can take on the world.
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How Lean Has Helped the IT Team Take Pride in Their Work
More teamwork, a better vision of daily work, a team that works in a concentrated way, and more pride in doing a job well; these are the benefits that Mélanie Noyel mentioned that their IT team at Acta gained from using Lean. At the Lean Digital Summit 2019 she presented on how they applied Lean to improve the IT team’s daily work.
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Highlights from SEACON:UK 2019 - Enterprise Measurement, Enterprise Structuring for Outcomes
This is a summary of the key topics and presentations from the SEACON:UK Study of Enterprise Agility conference held in London 12th November 2019. Key messages from the conference were about: measuring success at enterprise level; structuring your organisation for agility; the importance of culture in agility at scale; and the use of cloud services in the enterprise. All are available on YouTube.
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QCon London 2020: Kubernetes, FinTech, Streaming, ML, JavaScript, Performance, Cloud, Security, AI
Are you ready to uncover emerging trends, techniques, and tools in software development that will help you grow your career, build your network, and lead your team in 2020? Be part of QCon London, March 2-6, 2020, and join over 1,600 software leaders and their teams.
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Hidden Costs of iOS/Android Shared Development, at Dropbox and Slack
Building a new native mobile app requires a lot of work since it is necessary to code it in Kotlin/Java for Android, and then again in Objective-C/Swift for iOS. In the past, Dropbox and Slack had been implementing a strategy to share code between platforms, building a shared library in C++, until recently, when they decided to get rid of this.