How to develop resilience in the face of layoffs
Even software engineers now have to think about the proactive steps they can make to limit the impact of a possible layoff.
On APIs eating the world and creating TikToks for developers with Joyce Lin of Postman
More than 50% of developers say that more than half of their organization's development effort is spent on APIs.
On everything but Kubernetes with Kelsey Hightower
We talk about the return of monolith, tools for the job, open source, and if ChatGPT will lead to better code reviews. OK, we did mention Kubernetes!
30 years of DOOM, APIs, testing in production, micro-frontends, and much more at Shift Miami
One of Europe's most celebrated developer gatherings is making its North American debut in Miami, Florida, on May 23, 2023.
Still talking to your rubber duck? Draw a diagram instead.
Engineers often use the rubber duck approach when they are stuck, but why not draw for our little yellow friend instead?
DHH and 37signals are saving $7 million by leaving the cloud. Should you do the same?
Self-hosting is not for everyone. Find out if it's the right fit for you.
Technical debt is a business problem
The term was coined by Ward Cunningham in 1992. at the OOPSLA conference [1] as a metaphor for developing a software asset. He concluded that the development process leads to new learning, as it depends upon artifacts he coined as technical debt.
I have 30 years of experience and still need a mentor. You do too.
You're probably imagining the aforementioned mentor as a wise white-haired sensei one step away from retirement, but here's the kicker - it's a colleague 20 years my junior.
On fetishizing frameworks and everything old becoming new again with CSS Wizardry’s Harry Roberts
Everything old is new again, and we’ve already seen some of the largest and most prominent frameworks return to the ideas and solutions of yesteryear.
Developers’ dilemma: Code from scratch or assemble existing code
More than half of developers, 51%, said they mainly assemble code written by others, and 58% don’t feel that writing code from scratch will be required as part of their roles in the future, says Atlassian’s State of the Developer report.
Testing in production is not a dirty word with Paige Cruz of Chronosphere
Want to hear a first-hand recollection of on-call engineers' worst nightmare? Come to Infobip’s Shift conference in Miami to hear Paige Cruz of Chronosphere speak of ”the time that her deployment brought down production in a big way”.
What if privacy had an API with Sean Falconer of Skyflow
Privacy isn’t a feature, or an afterthought once you've built and scaled everything. It should be a day 1 priority; privacy needs to be part of the culture of a company.