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Technology's Carbon Impact and What You Can Do about It
Achieving a balance between growth and efficiency can be a formidable task. However, software engineers can play a critical role at the nexus of both. This article discusses open source software tools and methodologies for balancing carbon with growth across IT organizations, and provides actionable approaches to greening IT organizations.
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Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse
In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges. To wrap up, he shares some of his thoughts on the role of software testers as we move towards a future of testing in the metaverse.
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The Process of Creating Decentralized Apps (dApps)
A decentralized application has a different architectural approach; they are working on distributed ledger technology called blockchain, where there is no central point of failure nor third parties involved. A revolutionary and attractive technology for new opportunities. This article covers creating such applications and why they are needed, as well as challenges during implementation.
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How Practicing TCR (Test && Commit || Revert) Reduces Batch Size
The practice of test && commit || revert teaches how to write code in smaller chunks, further reducing batch size. TCR yields high coverage by design, which smooths the downstream testing pipeline.
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The Future of DevOps is No-Code
The need for high-quality DevOps personnel is skyrocketing, but it is harder than ever to find enough staff. It is possible to augment your DevOps organization using no-code and low-code tooling. Low-code and no-code tools can free up existing developers by reducing the time spent on integrating and administering DevOps toolsets.
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Moldable Development: Guiding Technical Decisions without Reading Code
Developers spend most of their time reading code. Moldable Development challenges reading as a means to gather information from the system, by creating custom tools that show the problem in a way that makes it comfortable to understand. The solution typically follows quickly afterward. Glamorous Toolkit is a moldable development environment designed to decrease the cost of custom tools.
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AI for Software Developers: a Future or a New Reality?
In this article, author Nikita Povarov discusses the role AI/ML plays in software development and how tasks like code completion, code search, and bug detection can be powered by machine learning. But he also explains why a complete replacement of programmers by algorithms isn't going happen any time soon.
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How to Fight Climate Change as a Software Engineer
We need to reduce and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions to stop climate change. But what role does software play, and what can software engineers do? Let’s take a look under the hood to uncover the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and software, learn about the impact that we can have, and identify concrete ways to reduce emissions when creating and running software.
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Insights into the Emerging Prevalence of Software Vulnerabilities
The software exploit landscape is constantly evolving and organizations need to be structured to stay ahead of these risks. A solid platform built on software best practices, education, and a good understanding of the threat landscape is critical to a strong defensive posture.
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The Renaissance of Code Documentation: Introducing Code Walkthrough
The Continuous Documentation methodology is a useful paradigm that helps ensure that high-quality documentation is created, maintained, and readily available. Code Walkthroughs take the reader on a “walk” — visiting at least two stations in the code — describe flows and interactions, and often incorporate code snippets.
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Soulful Socio-Technical Architecture
Happy developers make happy customers and stakeholders. Authority is ineffective with competent and knowledgeable teams. Socio-technical systems design provides a new worldview of what constitutes quality of working life and humanism at work. To create a magic environment where the soul of our teams can thrive, we need to create the conditions for strong relationships to develop and flourish.
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How to Not Lose Your Job to Low-Code Software
The uptake of low code software is so strong that it will almost certainly make its way into your organization. Most software engineers shouldn’t be concerned about this because they are good at the things that low code software is not yet good at. The key to surviving and thriving during this change is ensuring that your role encompasses responsibilities that low code can’t yet do.