31 Lessons Learned From 10,000 Hours of Programming
“The key to achieving world-class expertise in any skill, is to a large extent, a matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around 10,000 hours” — Malcolm…
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DevOps: Why It Is Misunderstood & What It Always Should Have Been
DevOps is a cultural movement that has brought a lot of much-needed agility to software development. But it is also misunderstood: does DevOps really mean that developers should, in addition to…
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What Is A Developer’s Worst Enemy?
You’re staring at the blue light showing from your computer screen while your hands work magic on the keyboard. Metal music blasting out of the headphone around your ears. You’ve…
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Defining Boundaries And Interfaces In Software Development
Zombies are bad at understanding boundaries, so set limits and expectations for what your app can do. Zombies are bad at understanding boundaries. They trample over fences, tear down walls,…
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The Good, Bad, And Ugly Of Remote Software Development
Ah, the office. That place we arrive at after riding on a smelly train for 30 minutes, and where we get to share a bathroom with dozens of professional acquaintances.…
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PyCon 2019 | Design Patterns in Python for the Untrained Eye
PyCon 2019 | Design Patterns in Python for the Untrained Eye Speaker: Ariel Ortiz Design patterns are prepackaged solutions to common software design problems. We get two important benefits…
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PyCon 2019 | Maintaining a Python Project When It’s Not Your Job
PyCon 2019 | Maintaining a Python Project When It’s Not Your Job Speaker: Hynek Schlawack PyPI is a gold mine of great packages but those packages have to be…
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8 Principles To Achieve DevOps At Scale
Since you clicked on this article, you may be wondering why you aren’t achieving the level of quality, efficiency, and satisfaction you expect from your DevOps processes. Maybe you think…
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Benefits And Challenges Of DevOps
DevOps is the infusion of software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). Traditionally, these departments are siloed. With this, software developers who write the code are not connected with the…
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You Can’t Buy DevOps But Plenty Of People Are Happy To Sell It To You
Making a move to DevOps can be a daunting undertaking, with many organizations not knowing the right place to start. I recently had some fun taking a few “DevOps assessments” to see…
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