It's an exciting time for software teams, but also a challenging one! The rapid rise of AI is revolutionizing how we build applications, and AI-driven features are becoming increasingly pervasive.

Most of the advice on meetings concerns how to run them. But what about when you’re attending the meeting rather than running it, and the meeting is endless or boring? Certainly, it can help to stay ...

Behavior-driven development (BDD) and keywords are both widely used techniques to facilitate automated testing. The approaches are similar in that tests can be written in a business-readable, ...

It seems to defy all logic, but the best programmers have two usually undesirable traits: They’re lazy and dumb. That’s the point of a classic post by web developer and blogger Philipp Lenssen that I ...

Collaboration is a key part of how agile teams work. Quite often, to work effectively to meet commitments in a self-organizing, cross-functional team, you need to be creative as well. While teams can ...

If you deal with legacy code you’ve likely found yourself struggling to debug and fix a mysterious, intermittent problem. Along the way you may have discovered some code that didn’t quite make sense.

Amazon made headlines recently with its new patent for an anticipatory shipping model. The model predicts what users would likely buy, when they would buy it, and where they would need it. Amazon ...

We all have mannerisms: things we say or do that are harmless but that might annoy others. I was once on a plane talking with a seatmate who pulled on her nose as she spoke. Really. Every few seconds, ...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a flexible text format used for a wide variety of applications, including data serialization and exchange of data. SOAP web services use XML as the data exchange ...

A set of vertices with each vertex having zero or more labels and zero or more properties/attributes. A set of edges with each edge being directed from one vertex to another vertex. Each edge has zero ...

One of the most intriguing aspects of software architecture is trying to bring structure to areas that can’t be structured easily. Whenever an architect designs a system, service, or feature, they are ...

Have you ever had the exasperating experience of hearing presenters read their slides syllable by syllable, word by word? I certainly have. One time a keynote speaker turned to the screen and read an ...