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Quality Begins Where the User Journey Ends

Apica

All of these aspects of a digital user journey should be tested by a person. There’s nothing wrong with wanting the reassurance of good old-fashioned human-based user acceptance testing (UAT). Indeed, there was a time when applications were vertical stacks of software atop networks and servers wholly owned by the company.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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Cloud Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

37% pro-experimentation, 63% anti—fewer respondent organizations have “experimented” with serverless computing, e.g., by evaluating vendors, scoping serverless scenarios, or testing serverless on a limited basis. It’s an important concept in software architecture, especially in next-generation regimes, such as microservice architecture.

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