Wed.Jul 07, 2021

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The Exponential Cost of Fixing Bugs

DZone

The cost of detecting and fixing defects in software increases exponentially with time in the software development workflow. Fixing bugs in the field is incredibly costly and risky — often by an order of magnitude or two. The cost is not just in the form of time and resources wasted in the present, but also in form of lost opportunities in the future.

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Elastic Distributed Training with XGBoost on Ray

Uber Engineering

Introduction. Since we productionized distributed XGBoost on Apache Spark™ at Uber in 2017, XGBoost has powered a wide spectrum of machine learning (ML) use cases at Uber, spanning from optimizing marketplace dynamic pricing policies for Freight , improving times of … The post Elastic Distributed Training with XGBoost on Ray appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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What Should Dev Teams Measure First?

DZone

Why do we measure dev team metrics? It's even more important to understand this question because most engineers don't like to be measured. So why measure at all?

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Managing Energy, Prioritizing Health: The Tasktop Recharge Days Initiative

Tasktop

Caring for each other’s growth and happiness is a core brand value at Tasktop for reason. The company is led by people who recognize that happier and healthier employees bring more enthusiasm and energy to their work and produce better results. That’s why the company has recently unveiled the Tasktop Recharge Days initiative—which took place last week between July 1-5—to give us time to rest, reflect and revitalize ahead of another successful quarter.

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An Introduction To Figma Interactive Components

Smashing Magazine

An Introduction To Figma Interactive Components. An Introduction To Figma Interactive Components. Emiliano Cicero. 2021-07-07T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. Recently, Figma rolled out the beta for the newest interactive components feature that allows defining interactions and animations directly into the variants and propagates them to every component instance.

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