The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. Respondents were well spread across data and applied science (42%), software engineering (32%), program management (17%), research (7%) and other (1%).

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Tasktop

MAY 31, 2019

This can be a challenge for engineering teams: engineers can be less social and more competitive than non-engineers. The post Team building in software engineering appeared first on Tasktop Blog. EngineeringWhen you come in to work, do your teammates greet you? Are jokes told on your team? E specially bad ones? Do you chat about anything besides work? Trust is essential to teams.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

Software developers are interchangeable. A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. If that sounds like something you would say or think, then your perception of software development is severely detrimental to the health of your business. Productivity of software teams, over the short and long-term, can vary by many orders of magnitude.

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Professor Beekums

MARCH 11, 2016

What was interesting was that here was an engineer that I would have hired in a heartbeat and yet his performance during the interview was incredibly mediocre. I recently gave a friend a mock interview. He was trying to prepare for a big interview and needed practice. His first reaction was “I really need to improve my interviewing skills.” ” The sad thing is, he probably did if he wanted to get that job

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Tasktop

MAY 23, 2019

The beginning of my experience as a Junior Software Engineer on one of Tasktop’s ‘Integrations Teams’ marked a definitive transition in the way I learned and practiced computer science and software development. I was drawn to Tasktop because of its strong impact on the software development industry. Software Engineers, was introduced to the fundamental concepts and tools on which Tasktop is built. Looking for a career in software development?

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Tasktop

JANUARY 23, 2020

He’s one of our Senior Software Engineers and Team Leads who works remotely in Germany. Probably very different from most other Tasktopians; I’m a remote engineer from the south-west of Germany. I’m a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead of one of the Tasktop Integration Hub teams. What does a typical day as a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead look like for you? Engineering Tasktop NewsMeet Jordi Böhme!

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J. Paul Reed

MARCH 14, 2019

The 737Max and Why Software Engineers Might Want to Pay Attention As someone with a bit of a reputation for talking about aviation and software development and operations , I’ve been asked about the 737Max repeatedly over the past week. This , in turn, necessitated changes in engine design and mounting and because of these changes, engineers changed some of the flight control systems.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Uncategorized Software EngineeringWatchman: monitoring dependency conflicts for Python library ecosystem Wang et al., ICSE ‘20. There are more than 1.4M Python libraries in the PyPI repository. Figuring out which combinations of those work well together is not always easy.

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DZone

MARCH 26, 2020

It can also be very easy to write unit tests that are — in theory — units test but are more complex than the underlying code and hence just add to the total software entropy. This particular type of software entropy has the unpleasant characteristic of making it even harder for that underlying software to be restructured or to surface new requirements. java performance software engineering unit test spock unit testing best practices

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DZone

JANUARY 30, 2020

performance software testing project management automated testing software developent software engineering software test automation quality engineering quality assuarance engineering managementThe points discussed here do not generally apply to tech companies or companies that have strong technical leadership. These problems show up where there may be a lack of familiarity with automated testing by leadership.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

pub-sub software-engineering microservices netflixBy Ammar Khaku Introduction In a microservice architecture such as Netflix’s, propagating datasets from a single source to multiple downstream destinations can be challenging. These datasets can represent anything from service configuration to the results of a batch job, are often needed in-memory to optimize access and must be updated as they change over time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. software-engineering netflix failover fault-tolerance microservicesThis means that our microservices constantly evolve and change, but what doesn’t change is our responsibility to provide a highly available service that delivers 100+ million hours of daily streaming to our subscribers.

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DZone

JUNE 25, 2019

Do your customers keep complaining about bugs in your software application? If you answered yes , then you probably have issues with the quality of your software application. tutorial performance ux software engineering software quality legacy code sonarqube sonarlintDoes it take you too much time to implement new features? Here are 6 practical steps that you could follow, to improve its quality. Stop Creating New Quality Issues.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Uncategorized Software EngineeringStatic analysis of Java enterprise applications: frameworks and caches, the elephants in the room , Antoniadis et al., PLDI’20. Static analysis is a key component of many quality and security analysis tools. Being static , it has the advantage that analysis results can be produced solely from source code without the need to execute the program.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

By Drew Koszewnik This is the story about how the Content Setup Engineering team used Hollow, a Netflix OSS technology, to re-architect and simplify an essential component in our content pipeline?—?delivering A reduction in the time the Content Setup Engineering team spends on performance-related issues. During each cycle, it reads all messages which have been added to the topic since the last cycle and mutates the Hollow state engine to reflect the new state of the updated records.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

For the first episode, one of our software engineers, Tim Van Der Kooi, interviewed Ryan Nosworthy. Ryan is a senior software engineer here at Tasktop, and he’s working on been working on Tasktop Viz, our new product that we unveiled at DOES 2019 last week. We have a small team at Viz, there are five engineers. The post The TaskTalks Podcast is back: ‘A Day in the Life of a Senior Software Engineer’ appeared first on Tasktop Blog.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesting links and ideas, and end up even more dissatisfied than you already are with the state of software today. Local-first software ideals. As we shall see, this change in perspective has profound implications… Great local-first software should have seven key properties.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. As computers play an ever larger role in society and the life of the individual, it becomes more and more critical to be able to create and maintain effective, cost-effective, and timely software. Through that lens we are drawn to think about the life cycle of software systems, the evolutionary forces at play, and how we can guide and manage that evolution. Uncategorized Software Engineering

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 26, 2020

Each component records its nondeterministic events; if a component uses a JavaScript engine, then the component also records its deterministic reads and writes to JavaScript state and the DOM. Uncategorized Software EngineeringReverb: speculative debugging for web applications , Netravali & Mickens, SOCC’19. This week we’ll be looking at a selection of papers from the 2019 edition of the ACM Symposium of Cloud Computing ( SoCC ).

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ Software 2.0 , in case you missed it, is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy to describe software in which key components are implemented by neural networks. A really interesting thing happens when you go from developing a Software 1.0

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses. degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If it helps, then in the software context if you mentally substitute ‘design and development’ every time Conway talks about design and the design organisation I don’t think you’ll go too far wrong. Uncategorized Software EngineeringHow do committees invent? Conway, Datamation magazine 1968.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 16, 2020

” Never mind, because the ideas in the paper are still very connected to a question I’m fascinated by at the moment: “how will we be developing software systems over this coming decade?” The supported open hypotheses are shown in the table below: The deduction engine is powered by a set of inference roles, a selection of which are show below. Synthesizing data structure transformations from input-output examples , Feser et al., PLDI’15.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Serval is a framework for developing automated verifiers of systems software. I’m sure that Google engineers do indeed take extreme care when building the low level networking code that powers Google’s datacenters, but their fundamental design point was to enable frequent releases for fast iteration, feedback on their designs, and yes, early detection of problems. To invest in formally modelling something, you really need to have a very good idea of what the software needs to do.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

component-based software development, reusable software catalogues etc. Then there’s the changing demographic of software building. Another data point from Miller’s presentation: in 2018 57-70% of the average software project comprises open source components, and that fraction is rising fast. Uncategorized Software EngineeringDeclarative assembly of web applications from predefined concepts De Rosso et al., Onward! 2019.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

I’ll leave you with another reminder that if you want to play with it, the labs environment and assignments can all be found on GitHub … Uncategorized Distributed Systems Software EngineeringTeaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., EuroSys’19. On the surface you might think today’s paper selection an odd pick.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 9, 2019

Last time out we looked at machine learning at Microsoft , where we learned among other things that using an online controlled experiment (OCE) approach to rolling out changes to ML-centric software is important. Online Controlled Experiments (OCEs) are becoming a standard operating procedure in data-driven software companies. The checklists in this paper should be seen as a starting point towards increasing the trustworthiness of experimentation in the software industry.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. Make Your Organisation Irresistible to Software Engineers The easiest and cheapest way to hire good engineers is to let them come to you. leadership software-engineering hiring

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. The Chocolate Sauce Heuristic for Software Design There are a few lessons about software development we can learn from this story, but I want to focus on design. As software architects, we have to make the same challenging choices. A Software Example Consider the example of a marketplace for financial products.

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DZone

JUNE 2, 2020

This Unique Methodology Will Help You Test Software in Times of Turbulence. At Abstracta, we are thrilled to explore a new avenue for bringing you fresh content from some of the brightest minds in software! performance software testing interview podcast agile testing software quality coronavirusWelcome to the Quality Sense Podcast’s first episode!

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 11, 2020

These methods can provide rich information for decision making, such as in experimentation platforms (“XP”) or in algorithmic policy engines. Finally, the scalability makes computation for large engineering systems tractable, reducing engineering risk.

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DZone

AUGUST 21, 2019

Software engineering productivity or velocity metrics have always been a very debated topic. When managers lean on using lines of code to measure their engineers’ velocity, you can understand why these same engineers have a problem with that as overly simplistic. Let’s start with a review of what software engineering metrics are, and are not. tutorial performance management productivity developer agile development metrics engineer

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2020

Listen to this episode of the Quality Sense Podcast in which Federico Toledo continues his two-part interview with Robert Sabourin , Adjunct Professor of Software Engineering at McGill University and President of AmiBug.Com. software testing podcast agile testing software quality coronavirus

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. The gap between defining business requirements and translating them into software needs to be minimised in order to prevent this category of problems. Transactional & Invariant Business Rules To enforce business rules in software systems, transactional boundaries need to be identified: which business rules must succeed or fail together. They don’t understand software, they.

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Simform

OCTOBER 27, 2019

If the stats are to be believed, among three in four software engineers incorporate node either in the full stack or in the backend. Should be Used appeared first on Insights on Latest Software Technologies - Simform Blog. If Node.js has ever been on your mind –– or you’ve recently started learning it –– you might be asking yourself: where can I use Node.js?

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Uber Engineering

JUNE 19, 2017

In this article, San Francisco-based software engineer Yijun Liu reflects on his experiences working with … The post Re-Architecting Cash and Digital Wallet Payments for India with Uber Engineering appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Architecture Business Intelligence Cash Payment Digital Wallets Engineering ExploreIndia Mobile Payments Payments Efficiency Team Uber Uber Bangalore Uber India Engineering

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 5, 2018

antirez : "After 20 years as a software engineer, I've started commenting heavily. Hey, wake up! It's HighScalability time: Halloween is early. Do you know what's hiding inside your computer? Probably not. bloomberg ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

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O'Reilly Software

JANUARY 12, 2018

2018 marks the fourth year of O’Reilly’s Software Architecture Conference , a software engineering event focused on providing hands-on training experiences for technologists at all levels of an organization—from experienced developers up through CTOs. Building evolutionary software architecture. For a variety of reasons, parts of software systems resist change, becoming more brittle and intractable over time.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 14, 2020

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Application security products and processes, however, have not kept up with advances in software development. Learn how engineering teams are using products like StackHawk and Snyk to add security bug testing to their CI pipelines. Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. Who's Hiring?

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High Scalability

AUGUST 4, 2020

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Application security products and processes, however, have not kept up with advances in software development. Learn how engineering teams are using products like StackHawk and Snyk to add security bug testing to their CI pipelines. Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. Who's Hiring?

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Application security products and processes, however, have not kept up with advances in software development. Learn how engineering teams are using products like StackHawk and Snyk to add security bug testing to their CI pipelines. Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. Who's Hiring?

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Application security products and processes, however, have not kept up with advances in software development. Learn how engineering teams are using products like StackHawk and Snyk to add security bug testing to their CI pipelines. Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. Who's Hiring?

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Professor Beekums

MAY 19, 2016

Throughout my career as a software engineer, many people have told me that learning to write code is difficult. I challenge this claim. The real difficulty lies in the fact that most people are taught computer science before they are taught to write code. By computer science, I mean fundamental concepts such as the number of bits in an integer or how various pieces of data are stored in memory

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