Uber Engineering

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Uber Engineering’s Schemaless storage system powers some of the biggest services at Uber, such as Mezzanine. Schemaless is a scalable and highly available datastore on top of MySQL ¹ clusters. Managing these clusters was fairly easy when we had … The post Dockerizing MySQL at Uber Engineering appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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The Polyglot Developer

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) are terms that I hear thrown around quite frequently. I’ve been a software developer for a long time, but it is only recently that I’ve welcomed these terms into my life. CI and CD is the automated process of running various tasks such as unit testing or building a version controlled project.

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Professor Beekums

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Hiring software developers is hard. It’s hard when you are a software developer and have intimate knowledge of the skillset required. It is even harder when you don’t have that skillset. I’ve met many entrepreneurs who are in the latter situation. How do these folks go about hiring developers for contract or full time? Many try by just talking to a developer.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As part of my research into method earlier this year, I picked up a 1959 edition of the Scoutmaster's Handbook. The core of the philosophy for a Scout troop was what Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, called the Patrol method. The early editions of the Boy Scouts of America's version of the Boy Scout Handbook were mostly written by the same person, William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt , and revised over many years.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 31, 2016

We're excited to announce SpeedCurve's RUM product, LUX. The name LUX is a play on " L ive U ser e X perience" and reflects how we've taken a different approach compared to other Real User Monitoring products. SpeedCurve's mission is to help designers and developers create joyous, fast user experiences. To do that, we focus on metrics that do a better job of revealing what the user's experience is really like.

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The Polyglot Developer

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

I don’t typically write product reviews, but since I’m a huge advocate for the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart home technologies, I think it makes sense to share some opinions. I own an Amazon Echo and a second generation Amazon Echo Dot. Today (November 4th), I received my Google Home that started shipping to everyone this week. The following is my opinion between the two brands, where each succeeds and where each falls short.

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