Software Development
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What are the 5 Trends for Testing in the Era of Big Data?
In today’s world of data explosion, big data applications and their implementations are growing dramatically. As data is at the…
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A beginner’s guide to Cache synchronization strategies
Introduction A system of record is the authoritative data source when information is scattered among various data providers. When we…
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R: Removing for loops
In my last blog post I showed the translation of a likelihood function from Think Bayes into R and in…
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Managing Global Teams – Lessons Learned
One year ago I took the most challenging decision of my software development career. I quit my daily – 40hr/week…
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Design Patterns in the 21st Century: The Chain of Responsibility Pattern
Here’s a thing you might not see a lot. @Test public void hungryHungryPatrons() { KitchenStaff alice = new PieChef(); KitchenStaff…
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Software engineering as … engineering.
How do you compare the structure of two different programs? You could fire up your IDE and dive in. A…
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We Analyzed 60,678 Libraries on Github – Here are the Top 100
What are the top Java libraries used by some of the most popular projects on Github? Based on analyzing 60,678…
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Backdoors, Sabotage or Just Plain Stupidity
Someone on your development team, or a contractor or a consultant, or one of your sys admins, or a bad…
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What’s the strangest bug you’ve squashed?
As software engineers we’re tasked with creating solutions to customer’s business problems. Being complex systems, every once in a while…
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