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Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to Data

DZone

In software engineering, we've learned that building robust and stable applications has a direct correlation with overall organization performance. The data community is striving to incorporate the core concepts of engineering rigor found in software communities but still has further to go. Posted with permission.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Equally, code that accurately describes the domain it is modelling is often far easier to understand and change.

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How platform engineering and IDP observability can accelerate developer velocity

Dynatrace

As a result, teams can focus on writing code and building features rather than dealing with infrastructure nuances. They shouldn’t worry about the platform; they should just start writing code.” Test continuously Synthetic testing simulates user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems.

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What is platform engineering?

Dynatrace

Platform engineering is a practice that outlines how development teams build internal platforms to create self-service capabilities for software engineering teams. The result is a cloud-native approach to software delivery.

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Clean Unit Testing

DZone

It's easy to write "unit test" tests that use JUnit and some mocking library. They may produce code coverage that keeps some stakeholders happy, even though the tests aren't even unit tests and provide questionable value. It is like the test has a negative value.

Testing 204
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Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java

Uber Engineering

Introduction to Flaky Tests. Unit testing forms the bedrock of any Continuous Integration (CI) system. It warns software engineers of bugs in newly-implemented code and regressions in existing code, before it is merged. This ensures increased software reliability.

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Automating Success: Building a better developer experience with platform engineering

Dynatrace

Observability-driven development Yarden Laifenfeld, senior software engineer at Dynatrace, presented the first use case for the software development lifecycle (SDLC): observability-driven development, which is the process of integrating observability and security before the first line of code is even written.