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Culture & Methods Culture & Methods Follow 133 Followers
Q&A on the Book "Humans vs Computers"
Author Gojko Adzic has released a book, Humans vs Computers, in which he tells stories about the impact of inflexible automation, edge cases and software bugs on the lives of real people. He explains the common mistakes built into the systems and provides advice on how to prevent these mistakes from being built into our systems in the first place.
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Culture & Methods Culture & Methods Follow 133 Followers
Is TDD a Form of OCD?
Developers are increasingly testing their own and each other's code. "Evaluation anxiety" is common psychological condition that is directly impacted by self-testing and team-testing. Are practices like TDD a defense mechanism to protect coders from criticism? And do emerging methods like Behavior Driven Development represents a more emotionally healthy approach to team evaluation?
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HTML5 HTML5 Follow 16 Followers
3 Easy Solutions to Optimize Images on the Fly
When pages are slow to load, images are frequently the culprit. The megabyte size of web pages is steadily growing, and images are by far the largest component. In this article, Gilad David Maayan shows how image optimization can be achieved easily and automatically with a few lines of code, using three different cloud services, dramatically improve page load times and bandwidth usage.
Q&A on the Book Working with Coders
The book Working with Coders is a practical guide to managing teams of software developers aimed at a non-technical audience.
Video Stream Analytics Using OpenCV, Kafka and Spark Technologies
In this article, author Amit Baghel discusses the role of video streaming data analytics in data science space using a sample application based on OpenCV, Kafka and Spark Technologies.
Cost Reduction Strategies on Java Cloud Hosting Services
In this article we cover techniques for determining whether automatic vertical scaling can help, and how to get it configured for your project
Automated Journey Testing with Cascade
Starting with a brief history of software testing, we investigate Cascade, a new framework for testing “journeys”, eliminating overlapping coverage to produce fast unit tests.
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2017
The sixth annual QCon New York was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1,100 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors - up from last year's record of 940.
