The security mantra is that security needs to happen at all phases of development, and that you need to think like an attacker. But developers like us are focused on building things rather than finding ways to exploit them, so how do we get there? The answer is as usual: practice. In this video, Alex […]
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A few weeks ago, James Shore has published a novel idea in the area of automated testing. The “Nullable” testing patterns offer a way to incrementally write tests on legacy code and to avoid mocks and design changes for testability, by allowing any class, to implement in addition to the production code a “nullable” implementation
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Chaos Engineering has appeared as a very useful practice for increasing application resiliency. However, most teams start using Chaos Engineering only after incidents happened and after a lot of pain in dealing with the reliability issues. Is it possible to have a proactive reliability practice, a shift-left in this domain, similar to what TDD is
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After NSA published a paper in which it recommends using memory-safe languages and thus excluding C++, Bjarne Stroustroup and the Direction Group have activated and changed their stance on using static analysis tools as the primary way to prevent memory safety issues in the language. In this video Alex discusses the possible effects of the
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During an AMA session with a client, a very good question came up: “How do I know I have a high performing team?” In the context of Scrum being a bootstrapping process for high performing teams, it’s interesting to discuss what they are and how to get there. To do so, we discuss a number
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Certain things in software development change quickly: languages, technologies, tools. Others have not changed for decades: practices, paradigms, heuristics. In this video, Alex shows how to find the fundamentals and why it’s important to focus on them.
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Yesterday, I was the guest speaker for the Cloud Native Meetup Group from Bucharest. I gave a talk in Romanian about laws, principles, and practices for microservices architecture. Check out the recording below or on YouTube. If you’d like us to record the same talk in English, in studio settings, please let us know in
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Alex reacts to an InfoQ article about a process for finding metrics, and a list of metrics useful for software development. The article is here: https://www.infoq.com/articles/metrics-quality-software/.
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When you start developing based on your architecture, you are entering a socio-technical system, a system that will evolve in various directions depending on outside and internal factors. This evolution is difficult to manage, and a potential solution is to use the concept of architectural fitness functions. In this video, we look at what they
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Is project management part of agility? Or is agile and project management in an unsolvable conflict? We discuss about project management vs agility, starting from a tweet by Thierry de Pauw and the replies he got: https://twitter.com/tdpauw/status/1609596163564490756?t=8O2-EOXOwR-HT1v0ywGejg&s=09. We also discuss Johanna Rothman’s article “How To Recognize Effective Project and Program Management” https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2023/01/how-to-recognize-effective-project-and-program-management/
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