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Is Your Test Suite Brittle? Maybe It’s Too DRY

One important design principle in software development is DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself. However, when DRY is applied to test code, it can cause the test suite to become brittle — difficult to understand, maintain, and change. In this article, I will present some indications that a test suite is brittle, guidelines to follow when reducing duplication in tests, and better ways to DRY up tests.

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Architecture & Design

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Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla

Lily Mara and Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it.

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

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Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention

Neha Narkhede discusses a vision for fraud and risk management that leverages the advancements in generative AI.

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Culture & Methods

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Building the Muscles for Critical Thinking

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dannielle Pearson about the importance of critical thinking in technology.

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DevOps

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Courtney Nash Discusses Incident Management, Automation, and the VOID Report

In this episode, Courtney Nash, a researcher focused on system safety and failures in complex sociotechnical systems, discussed the latest edition of the VOID report. Topics covered included: incident management and the role of automation, working effectively within socio-technical systems, and the value of collecting and analyzing system metrics in the good times and the bad.

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Is Your Test Suite Brittle? Maybe It’s Too DRY

Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla

Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention

Building the Muscles for Critical Thinking

Courtney Nash Discusses Incident Management, Automation, and the VOID Report

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Is Your Test Suite Brittle? Maybe It’s Too DRY

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How Technology Can Drive Culture Change in Software Organisations

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