A few decades ago, many developers in the industry often listened to a single big vendor and followed all their advice and lived in their world. Then came the era of using large open source frameworks and moving into that mindset and community.
We can do without architecture early on, but at some point a clearly communicated architecture offers big productivity benefits to developers who otherwise drown in the expanding implementation-level detail.
In your dream, you’re standing in front of a room full of dozens of people, presentation mouse in hand, about to present to them on (insert software development topic here). You wake up in a cold sweat. You’re either terrified, or excited and terrified. Are you ready to start presenting? …
This BOF is a lively discussion comparing SOAP, REST, and WebSocket architectures, asking questions such as when to use which? Should SOAP and/or REST be used in a complementary way where request/response are handled with SOAP and/or REST/XHR and push/pubsub/broadcast are provided by WebSocket?
Winston Churchill famously said, “First we shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us.” Software developers are constantly debating their choices of language, platform, editor, methodology, and even where to put the curly braces. The robust internal dialog in our community is a healthy thing, but our debates are …
At Groupon we utilize a ‘Pluggable Test Infrastructure’, where we express tests using high-level behaviors, and avoid precise web actions like “click”. We build tests around behaviors and outcomes. The infrastructure “plugs in” multiple test implementations at runtime for multiple uses of the product, like web, mobile, API, and International.
