Programming Digest #490: Senior Engineers are Living in the Future
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Senior Engineers are Living in the Future
Imagine for a moment that, by some quirk of the universe, you are sharing your workspace with a time traveller. Specifically, yourself from 1 year in the future.
In the ’90s, Microsoft created an annoying paperclip that it quickly retired. Its developers never imagined the virtual assistant would become a cultural icon.
Software Visualization — Challenge, Accepted
Architectural diagrams are the bread and butter of software design and a foundational tool for communication and collaboration on software development. At Spotify, we have an incredibly complex network of thousands of interlinked software systems owned by hundreds of teams, so having a simple way to visualize these connections is essential.
The End of Localhost: All the Cloud's A Staging Env, and All the Laptops Merely Clients
Dev environments should be cattle, not pets. It looks likely that most development will not be done on localhost in future.
Software quality is more the result of a system designed to produce quality, and not so much the result of individual performance. That is: a group of mediocre programmers working with a structure designed to produce quality will produce better software than a group of fantastic programmers working in a system designed with other goals.
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