The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. Today’s choice is a report from a 2017 workshop convened with that title, and recommended to me by John Allspaw – thank you John! Workshop context. What happens during an incident.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you facilitate or attend domain discovery workshops, one of the most effective and simplest ways to uncover insights is to make the scale or size of something explicit. For example, are we talking about a manual process performed by one employee or one thousand employees? and “How long does it take?” How Often Does this Happen?

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O'Reilly Software

MAY 15, 2018

O’Reilly Media Podcast: JP Phillips, platform engineer at IBM Cloud, on problem solving with containers and Kubernetes, and how developers can get started. Whether it’s dev, staging, testing, or production, developers need assurance that the code they deploy to one environment is going to work in another. Image courtesy of IBM.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The goal of Cloud Automation is for development teams to build better software faster and operations to automate mundane repetitive tasks and focus on innovation. As a result, IT teams can automate and manage processes across on-premises and cloud-based systems, or between multiple cloud services to prevent vendor lock-in.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m posting this on the Sunday before re:Invent, and will update as I find out more during the week… Sustainability Track Sessions and Workshops What follows are the catalog descriptions of the talks, after I’ve watched the videos I’ll update this post with my own commentary.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 24, 2022

It’s not a skill I’ve deliberately tried to develop much in the past so I spend a lot of time thinking about every single question. In this article, I’m referring to question formats used in surveys, questionnaires, and workshops. One thing I’ve been doing a lot this year is thinking about how to ask better questions.

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

But here’s the rub: Agile development teams do not work in isolation. And why, in lieu of a single tool or process, organizations need to identify and eliminate long cycles and wait times within development itself, and beyond. The disconnect between the business and Agile development.

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Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2022

Define the strategy, assess the environment, and perform migration-readiness assessments and workshops. Dynatrace Smartscape provides a near-real-time environment topology visualization of all the dependencies across the infrastructure, process, and services. However, the foundational stages are similar: Assess and discover.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

Frontend build tooling is crucial to the workflow of the modern frontend developer for a host of reasons classified under improved developer and user experiences. With our sights set on improving the performance of frontend tooling, a new generation of build tools is being developed. Jump to online workshops ?.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Now open Safari.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web Sarah Oke Okolo 2023-04-21T10:00:00+00:00 2023-04-21T11:15:35+00:00 Web Workers are a powerful feature of modern web development and were introduced as part of the HTML5 specification in 2009.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

There is also the matter of convincing the management or project stakeholders to invest the time and resources into the refactoring process. For all its flexibility and simplicity, CSS itself has some fundamental issues that allow developers to write poor-quality code in the first place. Side-Effects Of Poor-Quality CSS.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 25, 2020

An example of a short Team Flow EventStorm (this is not based on any real teams) Visualise your team’s process and you’ll uncover a higher quantity and higher quality opportunities for improving how you work as a team compared to relying on traditional retrospective formats. a step in the process, phrased in the past tense.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

In the six months since I’ve received feedback from my own workshops and other people’s workshops about ways to improve the canvas. Please feel free to use it, create remixes, or simply take it as inspiration to develop your own ways of designing bounded contexts. Six months ago I wrote about the Bounded Context Canvas.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Acknowledging the myriad challenges posed by existing development processes and disconnected toolchains in scaling software innovation, the GigaOm Radar for Value Stream Management report provides further guidance on the necessary capabilities to successfully adopt this critical practice required to be successful in the Age of Software. .

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Waking up as a software company in the Novel Economy , many organizations have realized that they have been too focused on using IT to maintain operations and enhance existing processes, instead of creating new tangible value to innovate and remain competitive. . VSM tools are the technology enabling the practices of VSM.”.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We all realize that high-quality deliverables are crucial to customer satisfaction and we go to great lengths to assure the defects we find during development are resolved quickly. Flow Load indicates a large amount of defect work in process. Figure 3: D efect resolution for defects discovered in the development process.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

This is a hugely important technique if you need to process and track massive amounts of unique data units, as it is very space-efficient. This weekend I will be reading the original paper by Bloom from 1970, and another more recent survey paper that describes several variants and applications that have been developed over the years.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

For many people, this is a waste of time; it’s pretentious developers geeking out over unnecessary perfectionism. In fact, Software Design EventStorming is like a DSL for designing business processes that translate directly into code. Katas and workshops are useful techniques for early adopters/influencers and enabling teams to employ.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In most sectors where risks are understood and perceived as critical, quality assurance inevitably develops. It also led me to write a book about web quality assurance and the forewords of eight more books about UX, ecodesign, CSS, frontend development, amongst others. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump!

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. A lot of the time I’m auditing client sites, many of the issues and inefficiencies I uncover could have quite easily been discovered by the development team.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The reason we pay so much attention to design (as we do to any other detail in the process of project completion) is that it plays one of the crucial roles in your business success. When it comes to the decision-making process, many businesses make the same mistake over and over again. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2019

Architecting for flow is crucial because enterprise software delivery, by its very nature, is a broken process. The complex — and often implicit — network of teams, tools and processes that plan, build and deliver are disconnected by the role-specific tools used by teams across the ideate, create, release and operate stages. .

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Large preview ) For context, I am currently working at a software development company called Q Agency based in Zagreb, Croatia. Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. Here is how we tackled the challenge. I don’t think so.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 18, 2022

is a cloud-based solution for managing product development and aligning teams around a strategic roadmap. With Aha, product managers can link work to strategic goals and initiatives, create visual roadmaps, and manage agile development. . Learn from the experts: Value Stream Management Workshops. If your organization uses Aha!,

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

In Part 1 , we’ve covered the side effects of low-quality CSS codebase on end-users, development teams, and management. The development team has analyzed and pinpointed the weaknesses in the CSS codebase and has set target goals for the refactor (file size, specificity, color definitions, and so on). Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump! Prefetching.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This liberal attitude is known as Postel’s Law, which is conveyed superbly by Jeremy Keith in Resilient Web Design : “Even if there are errors in the HTML or CSS, the browser will still attempt to process the information, skipping over any pieces that it can’t parse.”. Jump to online workshops ?. JavaScript is less forgiving.

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Testsigma

MARCH 30, 2020

You can read why and how test automation could help you get better with your application delivery process during this outbreak. In this process, if your team is not yet easy to gets started, our experts can help you set up your Test Automation process. It will give us an opportunity to learn a lot working with multiple teams.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2021

One day I was assigned the task of adding a range input to the library and, I figured it would be a similar process to the other inputs I had implemented in the past. It’s the article I wish I had when I had to do this myself and, I hope that it helps make this process faster and smoother for you. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

At first glance, developing your own chart component seems quite complicated. Therefore, in this article, I will develop the foundation for a Gantt chart component whose appearance and functionality you can customize for any use case. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump! On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. The A11y Annotation Kit focuses on accessibility considerations that designers might want to share with developers when handing off a design.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

.” Carol Willing , a member of the Python Steering Council and a core developer of CPython, also celebrates these projects—like the Binder service, which promotes reproducible research by creating an executable environment from your Jupyter Notebooks—particularly as they expand beyond their initial aims.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Google added decoding support on Android devices and Chrome browser and also released libraries that developers could add to their apps on other platforms, for example iOS. Also included is a lightweight conversion process back to JPEG format in order to serve clients that only support legacy JPEG.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

In his upcoming online workshop The TypeScript Masterclass , Stefan Baumgartner will dive into type systems and how to use them well when writing JavaScript. Jump to the workshop ?. Test your SMTP connection (there are tools both for developers and marketers — we will take a look at them later in this article).

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

At Amazon, machine learning has been key to many of our business processes, from recommendations to fraud detection, from inventory levels to book classification to abusive review detection. The same three things are important to developers at AWS and many of our customers. Choosing a Deep Learning Framework.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

A little over a decade ago, I was part of a team introducing new practices to a 200+ person, distributed development team. Over the years, my dad had grown serious enough about the hobby to build out a considerable workshop of tools, slabs and rough. A lot of people were too quick to understand them. I had to improve my technique, too.

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