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Product Manager The User Story As a common person I would like to drive around my family of 4 in a car So that I can achieve my day-to-day common person commutes Acceptance Criteria 1. We should be able to travel at an average pace of 60 kmph 2. The transportation cost should be…

Let me tell you a little bit about myself, I have a job as a Frontend Engineer in a pretty big tech company, the kind of company that has headquarters in several countries and thousands of employees. To get the job I had to go through 5 interviews, three of…

Writing high-performance code without creating more problems for yourself in the future. — Congratulations! 🎉 If you’re reading this, you likely want to get better at writing code for data engineering. In this guide, I will be showing you how I approach writing code as a means of problem solving. A bit about me I’m a Senior Data Engineer at Headspace Health and have been practicing data engineering for…

Why? Mamba has been the full node successor to neo-python for the N3 network. It used a native implementation for the virtual machine to overcome the speed bottleneck neo-python suffered from, had a fully typed code base and fully audited state (for every single transaction). …

The “PVS-Studio and RPCS3: the best warnings in one click” article provoked a debate. Here’s what people say in comments: Reader: This article shows that a static analyzer will be useless for expert developers. My reply: Myths about static analysis. The second myth is that expert developers do not make…

Java 10 introduced a noticeable feature: the Local variable type inference. This allows us to declare local variables without specifying the type using the varkeyword, the compiler automatically infers its type. This reduces the complex boilerplate declarations and makes the code look clean. Example (Old Way of Declaration): BufferedInputStream bufferedInStream…

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So you’ve decided on your idea, you know what tools you’re going to use, you’ve picked your layout, colors, and functionality. Now you’re ready to build your entire app by the end of tomorrow. Only… it doesn’t go quite as planned. You realize that you actually have no idea how…