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How to Manage Your Website's Technical Debt - Speckyboy

To manage technical debt, focus on sustainability by choosing well-maintained tools and following best coding practices.

(Hyper) Links About (Hyper) Links | CSS-Tricks

An anchor element in HTML is not technically termed a hyperlink but an interactive element. Text within should describe the link's destination or action.

Migrate Windows Applications from the Desktop to the Browser

Migrating desktop applications to the web is a complex and time-consuming task.
Developers may prefer to start from scratch but face challenges with deadlines and resources.

How to Manage Your Website's Technical Debt - Speckyboy

To manage technical debt, focus on sustainability by choosing well-maintained tools and following best coding practices.

(Hyper) Links About (Hyper) Links | CSS-Tricks

An anchor element in HTML is not technically termed a hyperlink but an interactive element. Text within should describe the link's destination or action.

Migrate Windows Applications from the Desktop to the Browser

Migrating desktop applications to the web is a complex and time-consuming task.
Developers may prefer to start from scratch but face challenges with deadlines and resources.
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Sonos workers shed light on why the app update went so horribly

Sonos' app update has caused significant dissatisfaction among users, leading to financial losses and the need for substantial corrective investment.
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Techniques to Tackle Technical Debt with Dustin Thostenson

Effective management of technical debt is crucial for improving team delivery and performance.
Dustin Thostenson has extensive experience in technology and emphasizes the importance of high-performing teams.

Engineering Excellence: Declan Whelan on Technical Health, Agile Practices, and Team Culture

Technical health focuses on maintaining coding quality and reliability over merely addressing accumulated technical debt.

How to Make Technical Debt Your Friend

Technical debt can facilitate learning and reduce costs in the development process.
Using Minimum Viable Architecture can help teams mitigate the risks of technical debt effectively.

How to Tame Technical Debt in Software Development

Discipline is key to managing technical debt
Visibility and intentional approach are crucial in taming technical debt

How to Prevent and Repay Technical Debt: What Teams and Tech Leads and Managers Can Do

Tech leads, project managers, and managers can prevent technical debt by giving developers more time and planning for spare time and refactoring sprints.
To prioritize technical debt, development teams can show the potential time savings and complexity increase if technical debt is not addressed.

Will the Rise of Generative AI Increase Technical Debt? - DevOps.com

The rise of generative AI-related tools will likely increase technical debt.
Choosing the right tools, iterating thoughtfully, and upskilling teams are important to mitigate negative outcomes.

Techniques to Tackle Technical Debt with Dustin Thostenson

Effective management of technical debt is crucial for improving team delivery and performance.
Dustin Thostenson has extensive experience in technology and emphasizes the importance of high-performing teams.

Engineering Excellence: Declan Whelan on Technical Health, Agile Practices, and Team Culture

Technical health focuses on maintaining coding quality and reliability over merely addressing accumulated technical debt.

How to Make Technical Debt Your Friend

Technical debt can facilitate learning and reduce costs in the development process.
Using Minimum Viable Architecture can help teams mitigate the risks of technical debt effectively.

How to Tame Technical Debt in Software Development

Discipline is key to managing technical debt
Visibility and intentional approach are crucial in taming technical debt

How to Prevent and Repay Technical Debt: What Teams and Tech Leads and Managers Can Do

Tech leads, project managers, and managers can prevent technical debt by giving developers more time and planning for spare time and refactoring sprints.
To prioritize technical debt, development teams can show the potential time savings and complexity increase if technical debt is not addressed.

Will the Rise of Generative AI Increase Technical Debt? - DevOps.com

The rise of generative AI-related tools will likely increase technical debt.
Choosing the right tools, iterating thoughtfully, and upskilling teams are important to mitigate negative outcomes.
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Understanding technical debt: Beyond code quality - LogRocket Blog

Technical debt management is essential for a sustainable and efficient development process.

Could new programming language Mojo spark your career in AI and ML?

Only 32.1% of developers report job satisfaction amid industry layoffs, highlighting significant challenges facing the software development sector.

The Power of Hackathons in DevOps Culture

Internal hackathons are valuable for sustaining and expanding DevOps success through innovation and collaboration.
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AI brings a whole new dimension to the challenge of organizational transformation | TechCrunch

Large organizations struggle to embrace change due to technical debt and institutional inertia, particularly in adopting new technologies like AI.

10 Best Technology Roadmap Templates for IT Strategic Planning | ClickUp

Technology roadmaps are crucial for aligning tech initiatives with business goals and reducing technical debt over time.

Singularity: Streamlining Game Development with a Universal Backend Framework | HackerNoon

Creating a universal framework with generic, reusable components can significantly reduce development time and effort in backend projects.

How to Get Tech-Debt on the Roadmap

Align technical debt resolution with business priorities to ensure it's incorporated into the roadmap.
Use data to substantiate decisions and outcomes of addressing technical debt.

Beyond Micro Frontends: Effective Composable Decoupled Applications on Cloud Native Infrastructure

1. Decoupling frontend applications is essential for scalability and meeting modern demands. 2. Technical debt accumulates when projects are managed by multiple vendors, leading to inefficiencies.

How to Apply a Product Mindset to Your Platform Team Tomorrow

Applying a product mindset to platform products involves focusing on what can be done to accelerate all other product teams.
Technical debt and the need for refactoring often arise as platform products scale up and new requirements emerge.

Managing Technical Debt in Mobile Applications - DZone

Code smells, outdated libraries and dependencies, inefficient data storage and retrieval, UI/UX debt are common types of technical debt in mobile applications.
Tight deadlines and lack of awareness about the long-term consequences of technical debt contribute to its accumulation in mobile applications.
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Butlablog

When I work on a project I differentiate three kinds of tests: unit, integrated, and external.In this post I'll explain how I think about them.FYI unit is the lowest level of tests, integrated is higher, external is even higher.Thinking about the kinds of tests in terms of levels and height comes from the test pyramid, I think.

New Relic Adds Module to Surface Code Metrics

By: Mike Vizard on
New Relic today added a free CodeStream module to its observability platform to give developers access to metrics and telemetry data that will enable them to write higher-quality code faster.Peter Pezaris, group vice president and general manager of strategy and experience for New Relic, said this capability is part of an effort to shift observability left toward developers to optimize code as it is written and after it is deployed.

5 Tips to Consider When Introducing Infrastructure Automation

By: Bill Doerrfeld  on  
Although we discuss infrastructure automation often, the fact is that a lot of manual processes still exist throughout DevOps.Whether it's rewriting scripts to spin up new servers, updating cloud-native policies or configuring computing environments, manual toil is an all-too-common reality.

Butlablog

When I work on a project I differentiate three kinds of tests: unit, integrated, and external.In this post I'll explain how I think about them.FYI unit is the lowest level of tests, integrated is higher, external is even higher.Thinking about the kinds of tests in terms of levels and height comes from the test pyramid, I think.

New Relic Adds Module to Surface Code Metrics

By: Mike Vizard on
New Relic today added a free CodeStream module to its observability platform to give developers access to metrics and telemetry data that will enable them to write higher-quality code faster.Peter Pezaris, group vice president and general manager of strategy and experience for New Relic, said this capability is part of an effort to shift observability left toward developers to optimize code as it is written and after it is deployed.

5 Tips to Consider When Introducing Infrastructure Automation

By: Bill Doerrfeld  on  
Although we discuss infrastructure automation often, the fact is that a lot of manual processes still exist throughout DevOps.Whether it's rewriting scripts to spin up new servers, updating cloud-native policies or configuring computing environments, manual toil is an all-too-common reality.
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20 years later, Second Life is launching on mobile

Remember Second Life?The virtual world launched on the desktop web back in 2003 with 3D avatars and spaces for various social activities.Believe it or not, it has been running continually this entire time-and now it's coming to mobile for the first time.In fact, this will be the first time that Second Life has expanded beyond the PC (across Windows, macOS, and Linux) in any form.

Scale your app with slices! | Hanami Mastery #36

How to reduce the technical debt when the application grows in Hanami?Use slices, as the key feature to revolutionize the way you think about web applications in Ruby.A new Hanami Mastery episode is released with a little announcement.The last episode this year!Enjoy!

20 years later, Second Life is launching on mobile

Remember Second Life?The virtual world launched on the desktop web back in 2003 with 3D avatars and spaces for various social activities.Believe it or not, it has been running continually this entire time-and now it's coming to mobile for the first time.In fact, this will be the first time that Second Life has expanded beyond the PC (across Windows, macOS, and Linux) in any form.

Scale your app with slices! | Hanami Mastery #36

How to reduce the technical debt when the application grows in Hanami?Use slices, as the key feature to revolutionize the way you think about web applications in Ruby.A new Hanami Mastery episode is released with a little announcement.The last episode this year!Enjoy!
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IT Teams Need to Do More With Increased Budgets

By: Mike Vizard on
A survey of 600 C-suite and IT decision-makers published today found the majority of organizations are trying to make increased IT budgets stretch even further as costs rise and the number of workloads deployed continues to increase steadily.Conducted by SoftwareOne Holding AG, a provider of software and IT services, the survey found 93% of respondents expected IT budgets to increase, with 83% planning to invest more in application modernization.
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Code Documentation, Streamlined - Smashing Magazine

Writing code documentation can be overwhelming when there's no smooth process in place.Streamlining best practices and setting automation in your favor works a long way toward getting permanently up-to-date content that reflects the important pieces of your codebase.Everything surrounding software documentation is tough - from allocating time to do it to keeping it up to date.

Five steps for tackling design debt

A lesser-known cousin of the technical debt, this term refers to all the product design imperfection that accumulate over time.It can take many forms and cover both the product and the process:


Product: inconsistent appearance or functionality that negatively impact learnability and credibility of the interface.

Analysis | Whoever Tweets Last, Don't Forget to Turn Off the Lights

A blue verification check on the page of Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Tesla Inc., on a smartphone arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022.Elon Musk's agreement to buy Twitter Inc. is sending some users searching for alternative platforms - with mixed success.

Code Documentation, Streamlined - Smashing Magazine

Writing code documentation can be overwhelming when there's no smooth process in place.Streamlining best practices and setting automation in your favor works a long way toward getting permanently up-to-date content that reflects the important pieces of your codebase.Everything surrounding software documentation is tough - from allocating time to do it to keeping it up to date.

Five steps for tackling design debt

A lesser-known cousin of the technical debt, this term refers to all the product design imperfection that accumulate over time.It can take many forms and cover both the product and the process:


Product: inconsistent appearance or functionality that negatively impact learnability and credibility of the interface.

Analysis | Whoever Tweets Last, Don't Forget to Turn Off the Lights

A blue verification check on the page of Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Tesla Inc., on a smartphone arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022.Elon Musk's agreement to buy Twitter Inc. is sending some users searching for alternative platforms - with mixed success.
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Pair of Surveys Surface Primary Developer Productivity Challenges - DevOps.com

Developers are losing significant hours to inefficiencies like technical debt and insufficient documentation.
Investing in developer experience is crucial as organizations acknowledge the complexity and challenges faced by developers.
Reducing friction for developers can lead to increased productivity and satisfaction.

Modernize your Java application with Amazon Q Developer | Amazon Web Services

Modernizing legacy Java applications with Amazon Q Developer simplifies and accelerates the process.
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