Code for a Living Archives

code-for-a-living August 4, 2022

Great engineering cultures are built on social learning communities

For a successful Agile and DevOps practice, organizations need to think beyond tooling. Engineering organizations need a strong community of practice culture that supports the collecting and distributing of knowledge, greater cross-organizational collaboration, and breaks down the silos that can happen in companies of all sizes.

Joy Liuzzo

code-for-a-living August 3, 2022

Skilling for success: How demand for development skills is changing

Developers need to always be learning, but knowing what skills companies need can help you direct your learning towards marketable skills.

Prakash Gupta

code-for-a-living July 28, 2022

Measurable and meaningful skill levels for developers

Spoken languages have distinct levels to measure skills; why shouldn't programming languages, too?

Matt Van Itallie

code-for-a-living July 25, 2022

Automate the boring parts of your job

Turns out the robots are here to make your job more interesting.

Oana Chicioroaga, Community RPA Content Manager at UiPath

code-for-a-living July 21, 2022

Design patterns for asynchronous API communication

An event-driven architecture can reduce dependencies, increase safety, and make your application easy to scale. But designing your systems and topics is a non-trivial task

Daniel Orner

code-for-a-living July 18, 2022

How observability is redefining the roles of developers

Your DevOps team might already be singing the praises of their observability platforms. But developers can benefit from them, too.

Shai Almog

code-for-a-living July 6, 2022

Why Perl is still relevant in 2022

While Perl might seem like an outdated scripting language, it still has plenty of relevant uses today.

Girish Venkatachalam

code-for-a-living July 4, 2022

How Stack Overflow is leveling up its unit testing game

We neglected unit tests for a long time because our code base made them difficult. But now we're putting in the work to change that.

Wouter de Kort

code-for-a-living June 29, 2022

Skilling up to architect: What you need to land high-paying IT roles

If you want to climb the career ladder to architect roles, you're going to have a broad base of competencies. Whether it's in cloud, security, or data science, we break down how you can land architect roles and the skills you need to learn to pay the bills.

Mike Hendrickson

code-for-a-living June 20, 2022

What Apple’s WWDC 2022 means for developers

Improvements to SwiftUI, new weather SDK, better machine learning tools, and more.

Wayne Bishop

code-for-a-living June 15, 2022

C#: IEnumerable, yield return, and lazy evaluation

Don't hate, iterate.

Isaac Lyman