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Culture & Methods Culture & Methods Follow 134 Followers
Engineering Culture and Distributed Agile Teams
Franzen and Pahuja explain how a distributed agile framework can help distributed teams create an engineering culture based on over a decade of experience, and share actionable practices that help you get your distributed engineering tools and practices in place. Topics covered are devops, team structure, microservices, pair programming, T-shaped engineers, continuous integration and deployment.
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Data Science Data Science Follow 212 Followers
How Much Should We Trust Artificial Intelligence
Considerable buzz surrounds artificial intelligence, and, indeed, AI is all around us. As with any software-based technology, it is also prone to vulnerabilities. Here, the author examines how we determine whether AI is sufficiently reliable to do its job and how much we should trust its outcomes.
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Culture & Methods Culture & Methods Follow 134 Followers
The Burger House: A Tale of Systems Thinking, Bottlenecks and Cross-Functionality
A small, upscale burger house opens on a narrow street of Rio de Janeiro. Their system is optimized for efficient order taking. However, unfortunately, it is chaotic. One morning, a cashier did not come to work. Can you guess what happened? With a little help from the Theory of Constraints and Systems Thinking, we will explain in this article why their system actually improved one person short!
Oldies in Tech: Hiring and Getting Hired
In this article Denoncourt provides advice for older job seekers along tips on to get and do well in interviews. Employers will gain new perspectives on selecting and hiring older coders.
3 Easy Solutions to Optimize Images on the Fly
When pages are slow to load, images are frequently the culprit. In this article, Gilad David Maayan writes about the techniques for optimizing images and compares the offering of three vendors.
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.
Merging Agile and DevOps
The most popular agile framework, Scrum, predates the growth of DevOps, and some re-thinking is required to make the system work in a DevOps environment.
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
The Seven Steps to Building a Successful Software Development Company
Transcend the “Feature Factory” Mindset Using Modern Agile and OKR
Waterfall goals turn teams into "feature factories" with no focus on value. To transcend this mindset, companies can apply Modern Agile’s four principles by using OKR (Objectives and Key Results).
