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8 Must Have Tools For Your Next App Build

YoungUpstarts

It starts with assembling the right team of developers and IT operations into a collaborative DevOps operation. An integrated workflow supports rapid deployment and flexible workflows. Docker containers support CI (continuous integration) and CD (continuous deployment) implementation. Automation.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. Some questions have a natural escalation path (like working through the standard operations on a linked-list) and others require some more creativity.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

The inimitable Paul Graham has an excellent essay called The Python Paradox in which he argues: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. To do that, we add specific speed regulators, like integrating source control with our continuous integration server or the more elaborate dance required for continuous deployment. One last thought.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

Remember Java? Twenty years from now, operating systems might also work as a good metaphor. However, attempting to slot a market stereotype matrix on to the environment in which your start-up operates isnt always going to be particularly fruitful. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.