Today, APIs and APPs are everywhere. Every company is racing to become a software business and to ultimately disrupt or be disrupted. However, in a world of millions of apps and billions of users, it is important to think about the people behind these technologies and ask, where are the …
What makes SSL secure, and when is it not? How do we handle sensitive data in our apps/systems? Is encrypted data always protected (and protected against what)? Can we trust the code just because we wrote and/or compiled it ourselves? How do we protect our application logic?
This presentation explains how to use conversational dynamics and understanding of trust to drive DevOps in your enterprise. There are millions of proffered reasons to not use proven DevOps techniques. Whether it’s “we don’t have time to do that”, “that will never work”, “responsibility without control equals failure” or any …
With Java 8 out the door, Java developers can, at last, benefit from the long-awaited lambdas, to taste the newly-found functional flavor of the language. Streams are there to work more easily and efficiently with heaps of data.
Wendy Chisholm works for Microsoft where she is an an author, activist and project manager. In this keynote of the 2014 edition of the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, she talked about coming out as an introvert, a characteristic of many software developers.
Feature gluttony is a common sin among software development projects. Customers deliver never ending wish list of features they want. However, the key is not to build everything, but only things that are really needed. Learn how to defeat feature gluttony by… saying NO!
