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Goodbye Sample Test Frameworks, Hello Sauce Training Repo

All good things need to come to an end. In this case, that’s true of the Sauce Sample Test Frameworks GitHub organization. While these sample frameworks are now gone, they’re not forgotten. In fact, we’ve replaced them with something better. In the past, this organization provided barebones examples of connecting to Sauce Labs with sample frameworks in a large variety of languages and tools. These frameworks were mainly based on Selenium and testing a basic web page.

How to be 10x more productive than the average data scientist

Being more productive than your super competitive peer group is hard. Being 10 times more productive might sound like an impossibility, an exaggeration.... or even a myth (unicorn, you say?). A 10x data scientist is literally 10 times more productive than the average data scientist. The skillsets of these data scientists create better career opportunities, higher peer recognition, and more interesting projects to work on.

How to use data to change behaviors

The government's response to COVID-19 is a good example of failed leadership from a data perspective. While government officials have access to a huge amount of data to help them make decisions, they’ve fundamentally failed to use that data to take people on a journey. There’s a huge lesson that businesses can learn from this on how to use data to change behaviors.

Databases Demystified Lesson Distributed Databases Part 3

In this episode of Michael Kaminksy's Databases Demystified, he explores: What does “consensus” mean and why is it important? Learn about the two-generals problem and what it teaches us about reaching consensus Learn about the main consensus algorithms in distributed databases: Raft & Paxos

Deep Dive: Introducing Trace by Bitrise

We will take a deep dive on Trace, the new application performance monitoring (APM) solution we are building here at Bitrise. Trace is monitoring made for mobile, helping you catch bugs before they reach your users. We aim to give you the full context of any problems so that you can assess, reproduce, and fix them as quickly as possible. Colin Hemmings is a Product Manager at Bitrise, with nearly a decade of experience building monitoring solutions for mobile and server applications.

Guide to Test Automation with Robot Framework

Robot Framework is a generic open-source automation framework for acceptance testing, acceptance test-driven development (ATDD), and robotic process automation (RPA). Robot Framework allows testers to easily write automated test scripts using a keyword-driven testing approach. Teams using Jira and Xray can easily integrate testing results coming from the CI/CD pipeline. This provides a lean and scalable test automation process.

Data engineering in 2020

Data Engineers are forever flying the flag for open-source technology. But now that we’re safely locked away in our homes - potentially for the rest of the year - a new danger looms: That we get distracted by our new data tools and lose touch with delivering value to the business. Today most Data Engineers around the world are working from home, and at first glance it may seem like this works. After all, a solid internet connection is all we need to carry on doing what we were doing...

Legacy System Modernization

The problems with legacy systems can be extremely detrimental to the success of any business, especially one that primarily handles customer data. Business needs and demands are constantly changing and the type of software and systems we use or don’t use can be the difference between growth and stagnation. As a result of this, legacy modernization for many organizations is nonnegotiable.