Tag: development
The API Life Cycle Mixer’s Manual: What Goes Into a Single Source of Truth?
In bartending, the mixer’s manual is a trusted source of information. These books can contain hundreds of recipes for classic cocktails, some of which might be 100 years old, while others might ...
Technological Breakthroughs in Hurricane Forecasting
The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season marks a transformative era in tropical forecasting, driven by the remarkable progress in machine learning and big data analysis. It's a rapidly evolving field, where technology and ...
Is AI the Answer to Devs’ Documentation Problem?
I have written this blog half a dozen times over the years, but every once in a while something comes up that makes me realize I should revisit it once more for ...
8 Ways ChatGPT Can Help Developers
'Adapt or perish' is the mantra in the tech world, and it holds particularly true if you're a developer. Because of how dynamically technology evolves, developers face greater pressure than most to ...
Things We Should Acknowledge, Part Two: Skills Are Less Relevant
This is perhaps the toughest issue for all of us to acknowledge: The longer you are in the space, the more skills you have filled out on LinkedIn (or wherever you are ...
We’re Doing More Less Development
My roots are in software development. I’ve written tax software, SmartGrid firmware and servers, enterprise integration code for many developed and purchased servers, mapping software, cell phone firmware—the list goes on. The ...
Faster and Better Testing?
The whole concept of Agile and DevOps was to iterate development faster and deliver results in a more timely manner. As we learned more about both methodologies, processes and policies were put ...
Shift That [bleep] Left
Seriously. The more you can shift things like security and test to the left, the more responsive the DevOps process will be. Some things are better shifted right ... But only while ...
Break Open the Black Box of Software Development
If you asked an airline executive what their biggest expense was just a few decades ago, they would’ve easily answered, “Jet fuel.” These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find an executive in ...
Software Quality is the Heartbeat of the Best Organizations
JPMorgan recently announced it was hiring 2,000 engineers, despite the gloom in global economic markets. Is this not an odd risk for an organization to take, given the demand for (and cost ...
How Automated Testing Closes the Development and Delivery Gap
For the past two years, companies have leaned into digital transformation projects to keep their digital offerings at pace with their in-person operations. Rather than become a stopgap, this digital approach became ...
Bringing Development Environments Into the Modern Age
It’s time to rethink how we deliver distributed access to software development environments. We know how to write code. And there are plenty of well-established tools, techniques and processes for doing so. We ...