A hands-on talk on how to create and set up a project with GoReleaser.
23 Jul 2021
This isn’t as much of a blog post as an elaboration of a tweet I posted the other day: I think this specialization of data teams into 99 different roles (data scientist, data engineer, analytics engineer, ML engineer etc) is generally a bad thing driven by the fact that tools are bad and too hard to use — Erik Bernhardsson…
Blur the lines between real-time and batch
22 Jul 2021
What is a credit rating and what factors affect it?
How a process map can help you to explain, refine and improve your processes.
Find out if it’s time to incorporate your business
Learn about different types of business royalties and how they are calculated
Learn about how grace periods work.
Here at Xplenty (Integrate.io), we have a number of customers who use Xplenty’s Heroku Add-on with Heroku Connect to enable Salesforce integration at their organization. Since Xplenty and Heroku Connect both provide a bi-directional data connection to Salesforce, you might think that you should use one or the other for your integration needs. But our […] The post Salesforce Integration:…
21 Jul 2021
Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, recently got indicted by the New York DA for fifteen counts of tax fraud. The charges say they said he didn't report benefits as taxes. If your company pays you a $100,000 per year cash salary, you will owe a chunk of that to the […]
GoCardless Survey: Three-quarters of Americans Plan to Decrease Their Use of Credit Cards as Debt Falls out of Favor
GoCardlessPost-pandemic, many U.S. consumers are retiring their credit cards — with young Americans making this a permanent trend
In this React-Native sound and animation tutorial, you'll learn tips on how you can add animation and sound effects to your mobile application. The post React-Native Sound & Animation Tutorial appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
Seven guiding principles in testing
20 Jul 2021
We're excited to announce the July 2021 release of the Python extension for VS Code! This release includes a faster way to configure project roots via a new Pylance quick fix, two new debugger features and Python interpreter settings changes. Keep on reading to learn more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – July 2021 Release appeared first on…
This week a group of global newspapers is running a series of articles detailing abuses of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. If you haven’t seen any of these articles, they’re worth reading — and likely will continue to be so as more revelations leak out. The impetus for the stories is a leak comprising more than … Continue reading A case…
As we’re all aware by now, we made some big platform changes at the end of 2020. Whilst the big move has happened, it’s given us a great opportunity to clear out the cupboards and closets. The post Spring Cleaning MDN: Part 1 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
Brand differentiation makes consumers notice your business. Here’s how.
Is your business using the right markets to channel sales effectively?
What’s the difference between a sales invoice and sales receipt?
Discover the must-have elements of small business quotes with our guide.
Find out if sole proprietorship is right for your business
jOOQ 3.15 shipped with a ton of new features, the most important ones being: MULTISET support (type safe, nested collections) Reactive SQL support via R2DBC A very useful, lesser known new feature is “ad-hoc data type conversion”. Data type converters and bindings have been around in jOOQ for a long time. Their goal is to … Continue reading Ad-hoc Data…
Secure access service edge (SASE) — cloud-delivered security combining networking and security functions — is on the rise, fueled in part by the need to secure work from home in countless locations. The hybrid work model is here to stay –– and SASE solutions are critical to supporting this new normal. How do you determine which one is right for…
Note: This article assumes some familiarity with Dagger, Anvil, and Kotlin. We use Dagger heavily in the Slack Android app for compile-time dependency injection. It’s powerful, flexible, supports basic Kotlin idioms, and allows for advanced dependency injection patterns with less boilerplate. It’s not without its sharp edges though. It slows down our builds with kapt,…
19 Jul 2021
We believe that we can only solve the problem of inaccessible software by shifting accessibility left into the software design and development cycle. In this post, Mark Reay describes how our open-source offering, Accessibility Insights, can help. The post Shifting accessibility left with Accessibility Insights appeared first on Engineering@Microsoft.
Don’t sell blindly, create a stronger sales strategy plan using our guide.
How could the business model canvas transform your business planning?
What are fringe benefits? And which should you offer to your team?
Expecting the unexpected with a business continuity plan
Dark mode has seemingly become the desired visual mode for websites and mobile apps alike. Dark mode is easier on the eyes, especially for those like me who like to burn the midnight oil by coding and reading tutorials. Unfortunately not all websites offer dark mode, so it’s up to me to remedy the situation. Though it’s not a true…
Explore database durability, the "D" in ACID. Learn how databases ensure data survives failures & the role of transaction logs.
First off: I think I’ve done a bad numbering in some of these recent weeks, because I wanted to write about what I actually did on July 13/14, but apparently I’ve already counted that week? Counting, man, a hell of a thing. My good friend Maeghan who aside from being a top drawer human being and tswift fan is an…
17 Jul 2021
I was recently asked if I had ever thought about trying to predict CVE growth. I had not, or really didn’t even know where to start, but after some research, I found the Prophet project that is a forecasting algorithm open-sourced by Facebook and uses the GAM family of algorithms. Using prophet with the NVD data in a Jupyter notebook…
16 Jul 2021
We take you through the process of setting up a limited company step by step
How could supply chain management increase your profits?
Find out what a rebate could mean for you.
Find out how to get, or issue, a share certificate.
Discover how Companies Act 2006 redefined the way UK businesses operate.
Effective habits for data scientists
15 Jul 2021
Find out what altcoins are and how they work
How could an external audit affect your business?
Learn how to calculate standard deviation to assess risk.
One of the biggest new features of the recently released jOOQ 3.15 is its new support for reactive querying via R2DBC. This has been a highly popular feature request, and we finally delivered on it. You can continue using jOOQ the way you were used to, providing you with type safe, embedded SQL in Java, … Continue reading Reactive SQL…
Find out how to calculate the capital employed within your business
Find out how to calculate the cash outflow of your business
Why I joined Thoughtworks
14 Jul 2021
A Bill of Exchange is essential for international trade. Here’s how they work.
Understand the collateral definition and the various types of collateral.
We explain the role of bridging software in simplifying communications with HMRC
When it comes to natural language searching, it's useful to know how the order of the results for a query were determined. Exact matches might be obvious, but what about situations where not all the r... The post Influence Search Result Ranking with Function Scores in Atlas Search appeared first on MongoDB.
Just a quick post with some updates around books and related events… Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: MEAP update In June, I posted about the book that Tomasz Lelek and I are writing. (Well, Tomasz is doing the bulk of the work – only two of the thirteen chapters are by me, but I’ll take any … Continue reading Book updates…
There’s no single platform team that consists of only web engineers at SoundCloud, even though we consider ourselves to be part of the “Web…
Insurers should leverage the ecosystem model to secure their future
13 Jul 2021
As the summer rolls around for those of us in the northern hemisphere, temperatures are high and unwinding with a cool ice tea is high on the agenda. Isn't it lucky then that Background Update is here for Windows, which means Firefox can update even if it's not running. We can just sit back and relax! Also this release we…
Learn about the competitive pricing advantages of value-based pricing.
Find out about the UK versions of an official Tax Identification Number
Managing cybersecurity for a small business has never been more challenging. Business-critical operations increasingly rely on cloud-based applications, while employees push for more remote and hybrid work opportunities. And if your small business is like most, odds are you lack the budget to update your security infrastructure so that it keeps pace with these changes. […] The post The Essential…
At Slack, we believe that designing an optimal keyboard experience is key to delivering a best-in-class product for all our customers. However, despite our design system components being individually accessible, we heard from keyboard users that we were still missing focus transitions in their end-to-end user experience. Non-sighted users who relied on a screenreader constantly…
12 Jul 2021
Emily Hou talks about her transition from an individual contributor to an engineering manager at Clever. The post Lessons learned: My first year transitioning from an engineer to a manager appeared first on Clever Engineering Blog.
PubNub’s React Chat Components empower developers like you to create rich chat experiences with minimal build time, so you can get to market faster.
I really liked A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. It is compact and short, only 170 pages, so it is a quick read, but it contains many good ideas. The focus is on how to structure systems to … Continue reading →
So here’s what happened: I went on vacation and because I’m leaning so hard into this funemployment life I didn’t open my laptop once. Every year Zach and I go to his parents’ (now my in-laws! hah!) lake in Minnesota for the 4th of July. Normally we fly there, but last year we drove (because of the panderoni) and this…
Operations research: the tool you didn’t know you needed
Building teams for the future - the Deliver, Evolve, Grow framework - Part 1
Building teams for the future - the Deliver, Evolve, Grow framework - Part 2
10 Jul 2021
Map for hiking, biking, and other outdoor adventures.
9 Jul 2021
The early days of the web felt like the wild west when it came to coding practices — just make it work. Then we became enlightened to better practices, separating HTML from CSS and JavaScript. Then came React and JSX, where we combine JavaScript, HTML, and even CSS with Styled Components — what an elegant mess we’ve made! Every once…
Learning to be an ally over twenty years and counting
No more jargon, please! How to improve your infrastructure product delivery with a few key business analysis techniques.
Thoughtworks InsightsNo more jargon, please! How to improve your infrastructure product delivery with a few key business analysis techniques.
8 Jul 2021
To help wrap up the third cycle of geometry nodes, a workshop was organized June 22 - 25 in Amsterdam.
Discover how GoCardless can help you maximise your cash flow.
Find out how to maximise cash flow at every stage of the customer journey
In this Stripe & JS tutorial, I’ll show how you can create a simple webshop using Stripe Payments integration, React and Express. The post Stripe & JS: Payments Integration Tutorial appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
We explain the importance of a statement of changes in equity for businesses.
How to configure a website so it can run full-screen from the iOS home screen.
Fit for the future with product teams
Is your Governance fit for purpose?
7 Jul 2021
The main drawback of a Ceph storage is that you have to host and manage it yourself. In this post, we'll check two different approaches of deploying Ceph. The post How to Deploy a Ceph Storage to Bare Virtual Machines appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
GoCardless announces partnership with Pennylane to enable small businesses and start-ups to automate invoices, accounting and payments
GoCardlessFirst customers have already reduced outstanding payments by 25x
Dive into database isolation! Understand its importance in maintaining data integrity during concurrent transactions with real-world examples.
I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (4 people) at a mid-stage startup ($10M annual revenue), although this story could take place at many different types of companies. It’s a made up story based on n-th hand experiences (for n ≤ 3), and quite…
6 Jul 2021
If a security tool catches a critical vulnerability, but also reports 99 other findings that turn out to be false positives, developers are going to ignore everything that the tool reports and then miss the important issues. Bryan Sullivan talks through how you can hone your tooling to separate the signal from the noise. The post Separating the signal from…
Microsoft has over 100,000 software engineers working on software projects of all sizes. Keeping those engineering teams productive while meeting their ever-increasing scale demands is a big challenge. Read about the One Engineering System (1ES) initiative in this inaugural post on the Engineering@Microsoft blog. The post Welcome to the Engineering@Microsoft Blog appeared first on Engineering@Microsoft.
3.15.0 Release with Support for R2DBC, Nested ROW, ARRAY, and MULTISET types, 5 new SQL dialects, CREATE PROCEDURE, FUNCTION, and TRIGGER support and Much More
jOOQR2DBC What a lot of users have been waiting for: jOOQ 3.15 is reactive, thanks to the new native R2DBC integration. Recent versions already implemented the reactive streams Publisher SPI, but now we’re not cheating anymore. We’re not longer blocking. Just wrap your R2DBC ConnectionFactory configured jOOQ query in a Flux (or any reactive streams … Continue reading 3.15.0 Release…
Find out how to calculate the shareholders’ equity of your business
What is a microfinance loan, and who can access one? Find out in our guide.
Find out how to enable your business to take payments online more smoothly.
We look at the process of accounting for advance payments
This is how SQL should have been used all along. They called it The Third Manifesto, ORDBMS, or other things. Regrettably, it never really took off. Because most vendors didn’t adopt it. And those who did, didn’t agree on syntax. But this is about to change. Thanks to the now ubiquitous SQL/JSON support (which jOOQ … Continue reading jOOQ 3.15’s…
SASE security solutions provide some unique advantages in helping you protect your organization. See how SASE drives simplicity and security — and see why Cisco Umbrella is an ideal SASE starting point. The post The Benefits of SASE for Driving Digital Transformation in Your Security Stack appeared first on Cisco Umbrella.
Building teams for the future - the Deliver, Evolve, Grow framework - Part 1
4 Jul 2021
How music helps me focus while programming and get into a better working flow.
In this article we’ll learn how to build shared libraries and install them properly on several platforms. For guidance, we’ll examine the goals and history of dynamic linking on UNIX-based operating systems. Content for the article comes from researching how to create a shared library, wading through sloppy conventions that people recommend online, and testing on multiple Unix-like systems. Hopefully…
Created: July 2021 Size: 30x21cm Paper: Fabriano Bristol 250gsm Pens: Pigma Micron
3 Jul 2021
A beginner-friendly glossary of common web development acronyms and what they mean.
GoReleaser Pro was released about a month ago, and with it, the ability to include GoReleaser config files.
2 Jul 2021
Understand Atomicity (the "A" in ACID) in databases, file systems, and hardware. Learn how it ensures data integrity and prevents partial updates.
Understand database consistency (the "C" in ACID) and its importance. Learn how databases maintain data correctness through rules and constraints.