Programming Digest #473: The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem
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The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem
I built a wifi-equipped water gun to shoot the pigeons on my balcony, controlled over the internet by a python script running openCV reading the camera image of my old iPhone.
Why You Should Care About Software Architecture
Software developers are often distrustful of architecture practices, and are leaning toward avoiding conscious architecture-focused activities in favor of architectural designs emerging from self-organizing teams.
How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer's guide
It's another day at work. You clock in. You work on your JIRA tickets. You clock out. And at the end of the day, you get a vague sense of dissatisfaction.
A dev's thoughts on developer productivity
Why don’t we hear more developer voices in the conversation about “developer productivity”? Most self-styled experts on developer productivity seem more interested in selling something rather than painting an accurate picture of how devs really work. Perhaps as a consequence, we’re swimming in acronyms, magic metrics, and methodologies, but not a lot of rigorous systems thinking.
Building load test infrastructure is tricky and poses many questions. How can we identify performance regressions in newly deployed builds, given the overhead of spinning up test clients? To gather the most representative results, should we load test at our peak hours or when there’s a lull? How do we incentivize engineers to invest time in load testing, especially when environment setup is time consuming? We realized that the solution to many of our problems was simple: load test all the time.
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