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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.

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.

13 Best Backup Plugins for WordPress

Every experienced website owner knows the backing up of the website is vital. You shouldn’t think that if something wrong has not happened to your website in the past, nothing bad will happen in the future. Incidents occur unannounced, and when they happen, you realize that they are costly, stressful, and time-consuming. Data loss can happen due to the failure of servers or the crashing of your website.

Announcing API management for services that use Envoy

Among forward-looking software developers, Envoy has become ubiquitous as a high-performance pluggable proxy, providing improved networking and observability capability for increased services traffic. Built on the learnings of HAProxy and nginx, Envoy is now an official Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, and has many fans—including among users of our Apigee API management platform.

Custom JAR Files

JMeter has many plug-ins and downloadable JAR Files you can use to support your testing, it is also possible to write your own custom Jar files and use these as well. Why would you want to do that, you may say, well whilst it is unlikely that you would need to create anything too complicated. You may feel the need to create utilities to support your own in-house performance testing or just something to make your testing process easier.

GitOps for Kong: Managing Kong Declaratively with decK and GitHub Actions

Kong’s fast, lightweight and scalable API management solution helps improve developer productivity by automating the delivery of API management. One way Kong automates API management is through a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) process by leveraging Kong’s decK (declarative configuration for Kong) and GitHub Actions. Kong’s decK provides a command line interface (CLI) to manage Kong in a declarative way.

Evaluating Go's Package Management and Module Systems

When you're evaluating a language for your next project, few things are more important than available third-party libraries and the package manager that ties them together. While early versions of Go lacked a package manager, they've made up for lost time. In this article, Ayooluwa Isaiah introduces us to go's module ecosystem to help us decide if go is "a go" for our next project.

Remote working with children - top hacks

Remote working can be a blessing for every parent. In that way, you don’t have to face tough dilemmas like “staying at the office to finish fixing that bug” versus “returning home early to do some karaoke with your children”. Being a working parent used to be all about making tough calls in terms of career or childcare.