Surprisingly Simple Tools to Help You Smash API-First Approach

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API-First is an approach of defining your API specification before jumping into the development phase. With an API-first approach, instead of starting with code, you could start with design, planning, mocks, and tests.

By choosing an API-First approach, teams can crystallize their vision before development, removing the unnecessary complexity in implementation to deliver a resourceful, smart API that can no only keep R&D costs low, but has the ability to meet today’s modern IT landscape where a single operation to query several systems and components to get the job done. The specification is shared internally, as a general to-do list for the project teams to work on independently.

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Security Is Everybody’s Job (Part 4)

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The previous article in this series is here.

In this post, we will explore The 3 Ways of DevOps. But first, a definition.

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Live Tech Talk and Demo: Getting Started with DevOps on Snowflake [Webinar Sign-up]

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The benefits of building a DevOps culture in software companies are clear. DevOps practices integrate once-siloed teams across the software development lifecycle, from Dev to QA to Ops, resulting in both faster innovation and improved product quality. As a result, most software development teams have deployed tools to enable DevOps practices across their workflow. 

The topic of database DevOps is trending right now and most Snowflake customers are asking about it, especially those who want to build a modern data platform in the cloud. But actually doing DevOps for a database environment is difficult and has some unique challenges compared with doing DevOps for applications.

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5 Best Practices for Managing a Remote Engineering Team

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Managing a remote engineering team may not have topped your list of skills to acquire in 2020. However, the global pandemic made other plans for us this year. Remote work is now the new norm for software organizations, which is sending engineering managers scrambling to figure out what works best for communicating, collaborating, and coordinating from home. 

As luck would have it, I’ve become something of an expert at managing remote employees. My experience began in the early days of Bugsnag when my cofounder and I needed to hire engineers for our fledgling company. As San Francisco transplants, we had many roles to fill and wanted to take advantage of our networks back in the UK. In the end, we decided to build our company with an ocean and an eight-hour time difference between two offices.

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Agile Localization. What Is It And How Is It Managed?

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Today everything that can be agile is going agile. Agility has become a bonafide IT mantra for every process in the software development life cycle. Localization, as an essential part of product creation, is no exception.

Localization is often treated as an after-thought. Only when the development and testing are finished do teams start to think about localizing their software. However, when you relegate the localization step to the last minute you risk missing deadlines and, worse, releasing a product not quite ready for worldwide launch. 

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Hyperlambda – Probably the coolest .Net Core Programming Language in the World

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Even if you’re not even interested in the automatic CRUD possibilities that Magic gives you, choosing it simply because you need a DSL engine for .Net Core, should probably be enough arguments for you to want to check it out for your enterprise software development requirements. Previously Hyperlambda has suffered from extreme lack of documentation, but today I released a huge new release of the the goods, where one of its most important features is just that – Documentation.

So what is Hyperlambda. Well, instead of me waiving my arms around, arguably trying to explain what a UFO is to a cavemen, let’s have the thing speak for itself. Because I guarantee you that you have never ever ever seen anything even closely resembling it, and I also guarantee you that you will be amazed by it.

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How to Market Your API Platform to Developers During a Recession

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With the recent downturn on public stock markets due to COVID-19, a recession or depression is almost inevitable. It’s likely we see mass failures across retail, travel, entertainment, and other industry sectors. The spillover from coronavirus disease and the following shelter-in-place can have drastic consequences in the startup world. Small brick and mortar businesses that were shuttered due to shelter-in-place rules will no longer are spending money on Facebook or Yelp to promote their business nor will they maintain their SaaS subscriptions. Large enterprises will pull back spending in sales and marketing in anticipation of a recession. This could cause reduction in seat counts or usage for SaaS contract.s Similarly, sales teams may find CFOs and financial controllers are blocking many more purchases than before forcing deals to be stuck in procurement or legal review.

The good news is that many developer platforms and APIs have tricks that make them more resilient to a recession. However, if you’re not doing these items today, now is the time to reconsider to ensure the longevity of your product and/pr company.

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Love Letter to Conferences (And What Makes Some Truly Amazing)

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TL;DR: I share everything I’ve learned about what makes my favorite conference experiences so great and meaningful, and try to understand which elements are universal, applying to both physical and virtual events, and which ones can be changed. I share the experiences of having run an incredible three-day virtual event for 50 people, and share why I’m now incredibly confident that we’ll be able to replicate the magic of the best conferences at the upcoming Virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit — our goal is to make it one of the best programs we’ve ever done and to leverage the virtual format to achieve things that cannot be done in a physical conference.

Why I’m Writing This

Great physical conferences are magical. You learn from incredible talks, you’re exhilarated by being surrounded by the best in the game, you find fellow travelers who share similar goals and experience similar struggles that you hope to conquer together, and so much more. The connections you make at conferences often lead to lifelong friendships and can maybe even change your career.

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A Detailed Tutorial of the Defect Bug Life Cycle in Software Testing

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Software Testing and Defect Life Cycle are like two brothers from the same mother. They always go hand in hand when a project is being developed in the organizational paradigm.

In this article, we will tell you all about the different stages of the Defect Life Cycle that the software testers go through to provide a seamless and bug-proof product to their customers. Also, there are some frequently asked questions provided in the article to let you know about the queries testers answer daily.

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5 Mobile App Testing Trends to Surface in 2020

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The role of mobile apps in the currently thriving modernized setup has acquired an imperative stature. It is primarily to enhance the scale of convenience both at the consumer and enterprise-level that mobile apps have grown to become a major hit!

For the success of any software or application, there are different stages of testing. App quality is the foremost factor that predicts the success of a particular mobile application. Over the years, mobile app testing trends have shown serious variations. The sole reason for this shift can be attributed to the rising count of mobile devices.

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