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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. You may think that you know how the system works.

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Demystifying Interviewing for Backend Engineers @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

For many roles, you will be given a choice between a take-home coding exercise or a one-hour discussion with one of the engineers from the team. The engineers assess your technical skills by asking you to solve various design and coding problems. The problems you are asked to solve are related to the work of the team.

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AIOps observability adoption ascends in healthcare

Dynatrace

As patient care continues to evolve, IT teams have accelerated this shift from legacy, on-premises systems to cloud technology to more build, test, and deploy software, and fuel healthcare innovation. This is a critical challenge: When software breaks, finding the root cause of the problem may take time, fuel finger-pointing among teams.

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Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software

The Morning Paper

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Before designing a better system for detecting partial failures, the authors set about understanding their nature and causes through a study of five software systems (ZooKeeper, Cassandra, HDFS, Apache, and Mesos). NSDI’20.

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A Day in the Life of… a Software Training Specialist

Tasktop

Meet Jason Grodan, a Software Training Specialist at Tasktop! I Also like to spend a little bit of time stretching and doing light exercises, reading or playing with my daughter before I dive into some work. My role at Tasktop is a ‘Software Training Specialist’. How do you start your day before work. years and I love it.

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Carving an AWS certification path

Dynatrace

Hosted and moderated by Amazon, AWS GameDay is a hands-on, collaborative, gamified learning exercise for applying AWS services and cloud skills to real-world scenarios. As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner , this was a great opportunity for Dynatrace developers to sharpen their AWS skills and pursue or up-level their Amazon certifications.

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Architecture & DDD Kata: Online Car Dealership

Strategic Tech

I’ve just created a new kata which you and your team/friends can use to practice your architecture and domain-driven design skills. This kata is split into four sections that address different aspects of architecting software systems. I’ve used it a few times now and it seems to have worked well so I thought it would be good to share.