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Queuing Theory for Software Engineers

DZone

In this article, I'll sum up the essence of what's required for a software engineer to be more effective in their field. Not being familiar with the basics of queuing theory will prevent you from understanding the relations between latency and throughput , high-level capacity estimations, and workload optimization.

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A Five-Step Methodology for Maximizing Efficiency in Software Engineering Meetings

DZone

Meetings are a crucial aspect of software engineering , serving as a collaboration, communication, and decision-making platform. However, they often come with challenges that can significantly impact the efficiency and productivity of software development teams.

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Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to Data

DZone

In software engineering, we've learned that building robust and stable applications has a direct correlation with overall organization performance. The data community is striving to incorporate the core concepts of engineering rigor found in software communities but still has further to go. Posted with permission.

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The Next Major Shift in Enterprise Software Engineering: From Platforms to “Platformless”

DZone

The evolution of enterprise software engineering has been marked by a series of "less" shifts — from client-server to web and mobile ("client-less"), data center to cloud ("data-center-less"), and app server to serverless.

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Unblock Your Software Engineers With Unblocked

DZone

Most engineering organizations face the dilemma of ensuring the new developer gets the support they need without slowing down the rest of the team too much. Developers spend weeks or even months onboarding at a new company. Getting up to speed in a new codebase takes time.

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Podcast: Interview with Software Engineering Daily

Sutter's Mill

Also in April, I was interviewed by Jordi Mon Companys for Software Engineering Daily, and that interview was just published on the SE Daily podcast. government recently released a report calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface area of software infrastructure.

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Software Engineering - The Soft Parts

Addy Osmani

Today I will share some of the software engineering soft skills I have learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering Manager