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Applying Lessons from Learning a Foreign Language to Software Development

Going from humanities to STEM was a challenge. However, there were lessons I learned from studying a foreign language that apply to software development.

Pavan Policherla Software Consultant and Developer at Atomic Object Chicago. Committed to delivering sensical solutions with the appropriate technology. Keeper of a hundred different hobbies.

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Development Practices • Sep 03

Your Legacy Code Isn’t the Problem

When a legacy system is grinding your organization down, the instinct is to ask, "How do we modernize this code?" Wrong question.

Development Practices • Sep 01

How PR Reviews Were Stealing Our Team’s Focus and How We Got It Back

Pull request (PR) reviews are one of those engineering practices that almost everyone agrees are important, albeit time-consuming.

Developer Tools • Aug 19

Why I Keep Reaching for SQLAlchemy

SQLAlchemy isn't valuable because it saves you from having to write SQL. It's valuable because it gives database work a consistent structure.

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An Effective Healthcare IoT Project Requires a Different Approach: A slightly blurry background image of a person taking a reading off of medical device. There are icons of a doctor, a patient, a medical chart, and a wireless signal connected by a dotted circle.

IoT

An Effective Healthcare IoT Project Requires a Different Approach.

Most healthcare IoT projects are productivity tools. They’re measured differently so they need a different set of rules for defining value.

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Pictured are hands on a laptop. Post title: How Coding with QA in Mind Has Made Me a Better Developer

Test Driven Development

How Coding with QA in Mind Has Made Me a Better Developer

Shown is Kendra Haan with a co-worker. Post title: Bring Confidence to Complex Data Migrations with Snapshot Testing

Test Driven Development

Bring Confidence to Complex Data Migrations with Snapshot Testing

Author Louie Berwanger talks to a co-worker. Post title: Test DynamoDB with Jest Shelf

Test Driven Development

Test DynamoDB with Jest Shelf

Test Your Software or Your Users Will

Test Driven Development

Test Your Software or Your Users Will

How to Write Cypress Tests That Don't Suck

Test Driven Development

How to Write Cypress Tests That Don’t Suck

Following best practices can significantly reduce the friction for end-to-end testing. Here's how to write Cypress tests that don't suck.

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