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How to Become a Software Developer Fast? Neeraj Mishra The Crazy Programmer

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) forecasts a 22% growth in employment rate for software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers from 2019 to 2029 — which exceeds, by the 4% average for all employers. Software development as a skill is lucrative , regardless of if you have a software development degree or not. In this article, we will discuss how to become a software developer fast. Though it’s better to have time and patience while learning any skill, you can use these tips to fast track your knowledge in the field. 1. Leafing Through The Basics First To jump start your journey to become a software developer, you should first have answers to the following questions: What is software development? Why do you want to be a software developer? What languages do you want to learn? What are the different ways to become a software developer and what time does it take to become one? What is the employability rate? Do you want to work as an employee or start a busi

The role of software testing and quality engineering in DevOps adoption

Most teams are somewhere on the path to DevOps maturity, with just 11% saying they’ve implemented full automation in DevOps. This means that despite being around for almost two decades, most organizations are still figuring out what full DevOps adoption looks like for their teams. However, after years of disruption, rising customer expectations for digital experiences, and economic turmoil, C-suite patience for gradual transitions is limiting, pushing software teams to overcome long-term DevOps hurdles and prove ROI.  Quality engineering is the practice of including quality testing throughout the development lifecycle, with the purpose of delivering a positive user experience that will help you satisfy, retain, and acquire new customers. It is emerging as a complement to DevOps that helps teams overcome common challenges to transformation. By focusing their efforts on quality engineering, development leaders can help their organizations finally achieve DevOps success.  Software Tes

Wilco announces first public version and $7 million in seed funding

The immersive upskilling platform for software developers, Wilco , today announced the release of its first public version as well as $7 million in seed funding.  The financing round was led by Hetz Ventures, and featured participation from leading funds and angel investors including Vertex Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Shopify VP of Engineering Farhan Thawar. Wilco’s platform offers developers a fantasy tech company, providing a game-like experience that is intended to accelerate professional growth. With Wilco, engineers will go on quests that ask them to conquer multiple life-like challenges while using real tools and technologies. For example, one of these quests requires the developer to analyze data and identify which users have been affected by an issue with the fantasy company’s application. Developers are then tasked with recreating the issue on their own device, finding the problematic code, and pushing the fix to the company’s code repository on GitHub.  Add

Turning IT into a value center using VSMP and VSDP solutions

For many organizations, IT has historically been viewed as a cost center. However, using value stream management programs (VSMP) and value stream delivery platforms (VSDP) can help to transform IT into a value center. In his talk at {virtual} VSMcon 2022, Akshay Sharma, CTO at Kovair Software discussed this journey and offered some tips in order to ensure it is done in the right way. According to Sharma, VSDPs bring the organization fully integrated capabilities in order to allow for the continuous delivery of solutions. However, obtaining value from this is an ongoing journey rather than a single destination. To learn more about the journey to turn IT into a value center, read the full original article from VSM Times. The post Turning IT into a value center using VSMP and VSDP solutions appeared first on SD Times . from SD Times https://ift.tt/l1QsHmJ

Value stream management isn’t new; It has its origins decades ago in manufacturing

It may seem as though value stream management is a new concept in the world of software development; SD Times has written countless articles about it over the past few years and has hosted three conferences on it since 2020. But it has its origins decades ago in manufacturing. In an SD Times Live! event , Charles ‘Scot’ Garrison, SVP of operations and customer success at ConnectALL, and Lance Knight, president and COO of ConnectALL, talked about how value stream management has spent the past two decades transitioning from manufacturing to software development uses, and what’s changed along the way.  Prior to joining ConnectALL, Scot worked at a company that manufactured dispensers and pumps for gas. He explained that back in the day, the term value stream management didn’t actually exist yet, but there was value stream mapping, which was a tool used alongside Kaizans, which is another method of improving processes within the business. “[Value stream mapping was a tool] that was eit

CCNA vs CCNP – Detailed Guide and Differences Jitendra Ajmera The Crazy Programmer

CCNA and CCNP, both are Cisco approved certification courses, which are very popular among those who seek a career in the computer networking line. Cisco is a very reputed and well-settled organization that manufactures and sells network-related equipment and solutions. In 1998 Cisco started this initiative to provide proper training in a certification module to find out the best human power. The main objective behind this is that company does not need to look out for the correct and suitable employees instead the interested candidate can enroll in the course so the company has a database of really interested and well-trained candidates on board. This idea filters the non-enthusiastic person from the list so that the company can find out real talent. Here CCNA stands for Cisco Certified Network Associate and CCNP stands for Cisco Certified Network Professional. If you have a little technical and networking-related knowledge and wanted to pursue a career in the same field as a team m

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Budibase

Budibase is an open-source low-code platform for building, designing, and automating business apps such as admin panels, forms, internal tools, client portals, and more. The tool was built to help developers who had to take up to three weeks to build CRUD apps.  The project has a built-in database, External Data Sources, a design GUI, and an automation section to enable developers to build full-stack apps in one place.  Users can start by connecting a data source like PostgreSQL, Rest APIs, MS SQL, MySQL, and more with Budibase’s built-in database. They can then autogenerate CRUD screens from that data or create custom screens from scratch using tables, buttons, form inputs, and more to enrich the interface. Budibase apps perform well across all devices; mobile, tablet, and desktop, according to the Budibase team. Additional details on the open-source project are available here . The post SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Budibase appeared first on SD Times . from SD

Infragistics launches on-prem version of AppBuilder

Infragistics , the UI and UX solutions company, today announced the launch of its cloud-based, drag and drop tool, AppBuilder, On-Prem. This edition can be used by both large scale designer-developer teams and developer-only enterprise teams. AppBuilder is included with the Ignite UI for Angular and Blazor web-based toolkits and works to eliminate the complexity of user interface design and development so developers can build apps faster. AppBuilder On-Prem brings the same features and benefits as the cloud version to enterprise organizations that have not yet approved the use of cloud-based SaaS solutions or those with sensitive design work that are able to go beyond a company’s firewall.  It is accessible only by internal personnel and runnable on any infrastructure, ensuring that data and designs remain protected from outside influence.  “The launch of App Builder On-Prem will further expand on App Builder’s mission to streamline app creation, from design to code,” said Jason Be

Armory launches Continuous-Deployment-as-a-Service

Armory announced the general availability of Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service to deliver declarative deployments across multiple environments that support advanced progressive strategies. “Our goal is to give companies a solution that’s simple to use but will grow with them as complexity increases,” said Jim Douglas, president and CEO of Armory. “The new product enables development teams to confidently deploy their software every time without worrying about reliability and security.” Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service can act as either a standalone product for cloud-first companies or as an extension of the continuous delivery solution Spinnaker.  The tool also offers environment-specific controls and advanced deployment strategies such as blue/green and canary to specify how much traffic is exposed to new changes. This enables development teams to automatically and continuously verify a service is healthy before routing all traffic to the new version.  The marketi

How obfuscation can help with data breach mitigation

Data breaches are nothing new, but they have pretty consistently increased year-over-year. Despite the massive amounts of money companies invest into security to prevent breaches, they still commonly occur. According to a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), 2021 saw an all-time high of data breaches, 23% more than the previous all-time high.  While the number of data breaches has gone up, the report also showed a 5% decrease in the number of users affected by breaches. The ITRC speculates this is an indication that bad actors are focusing more on specific data types instead of mass data acquisition.  According to John Brawner, director of support at the application security company PreEmptive , your company isn’t just vulnerable to attack on its existing products and services. They can also be vulnerable to attack in the development phase, where applications can be exposed to the possibility of piracy, tampering, and IP breaches. In fact, the average applicatio

Mattermost 7.0 launched with custom apps and integrations

Mattermost 7.0 offers users the ability to develop custom apps and integrations so that users can communicate securely with native voice calls and screen sharing. Users can also leverage out-of-the-box workflow templates to improve technical team productivity and operations.  The Mattermost developer collaboration platform now features enhanced capabilities to enable real-time collaboration for critical developer use cases such as operating incident response war rooms, providing documented processes and communication lines to technical teams during outages, and supporting agile, CI/CD, and DevOps release methodologies.  “As organizations look to accelerate efficiency within their R&D teams, we believe open-source platforms like Mattermost will increasingly be preferred by developers and C-level executives alike as they enable the security, customization, and flexibility that the modern enterprise requires,” said Ian Tien, CEO and co-founder of Mattermost. Mattermost 7.0 includes

Octopus Deploy introduces new cloud native features

Octopus Deploy, provider of continuous deployment orchestration software, today announced that it has expanded support for teams that are containerizing their applications and services.  With the latest updates, DevOps teams now have the ability to modernize CI/CD practices at their own pace as well as manage new and older applications all in the same tool.  Octopus 2022.2 expands support for cloud-native applications that run on container hosted platforms such as Amazon EKS and ECS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE.  According to the company, this release makes it simpler for users to configure their cloud resources through dynamic infrastructure discovery and improve support for serverless components such as Amazon Lambda.  Additionally, users gain access to integration previews with enterprise change management using ServiceNow.  “The release of Octopus 2022.2 isn’t about arbitrarily shifting every component or rewriting every application elsewhere for its own sake, but it helps teams

Components of Computer Network Jitendra Ajmera The Crazy Programmer

A computer network means a group of computers interconnected to each other for communication and sharing resources. This network consists of both hardware and software. The media which is used to develop networks can be guided or unguided media. Here guided means connected with the help of hardware or physical devices, like cables or ribbons. Unguided means wireless like WIFI. The configuration of both hardware and software decides the number of components used. Also, the network type, length, size and range effects the number. Components of computer are classified into two parts, hardware and software components. Hardware Components 1. Network Interface Card NIC is a short form of Network Interface Card. It is placed on the motherboard with a LAN connecting port. It is used to connect a computer to the internet. Once the chip is placed on the motherboard the MAC address is stored in the PROM (Programmable read-only memory) of the motherboard. Mainly we can divide these N

Continuous test data management for microservices, Part 2: Key steps

This is part 2 in a series on applying test data management (TDM) to microservices. Part 1 can be found here .  The continuous TDM process for microservices applications is similar to that for general continuous TDM, but tailored to the nuances of the architecture. The key differences are as follows:  Step 1(b): Agile Design Rigorous change impact analysis during this step is key to reducing the testing (and the TDM) burden for microservices applications—especially in the upper layers of the test pyramid and the CD stages of the lifecycle. There are various ways to do this, following are a few highlights:  (a)   Code-change-based impact analysis (also known as a white-box, inside-out approach). Through this approach, we identify which services and transactions are affected by specific code changes in implementing backlog requirements. We then focus testing and TDM efforts on those services and transactions affected. This approach is supported by tools such as Broadcom TestAdvis

How to cultivate an innovation vs. invention mindset

The global economy and new business normal caused by the pandemic have sparked a lot of discussion about how companies will be able to grow and compete. On top of that, today’s war for talent – and related staffing shortages in the technology industry, specifically – is seemingly at odds with expectations for growth. Many business leaders are turning to “innovation” to both help them weather these tumultuous times and capitalize on new opportunities. In fact, 75 percent of CEOs said innovation is among their top three priorities ( BCG, 2021 ). But what, exactly, is “innovation”? While there is no one right answer, companies can sometimes overlook the differences between “innovation” and “invention.” In my world, as a technology leader, an innovation is a concept that both reaches production – is “turned on” and made available to users – and is economically viable for a company. The latter is particularly important because not all ideas are sustainable; they can cost more than they d