by Tracy Koenn | Oct 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
How to Create a Software Development Project Plan Most software projects start with high expectations. But things often go awry during production and projects fail to get off the ground. While you can’t always prevent a project from going off the rails, you can...
by Tracy Koenn | Oct 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
What Is an OKR? An Introductory Walkthrough With Examples OKRs are one of those things that get thrown around in company chats to get people excited. Yet, when everyone gets the hang of them, things truly get interesting. OKR stands for “objectives and key results,”...
by Tracy Koenn | Oct 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
What Is the ELK Stack? Robust logging and log management is a nonnegotiable requirement in any serious system. If you operate applications in production or during the dev environment, you need information about what’s happening collected at scale. You also need to...
by Tracy Koenn | Oct 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Using Kotlin RecyclerView: The Essential Handbook RecyclerView is a ViewGroup ideal for displaying dynamic data. An example of such dynamic data is a list of weather forecasts for multiple days. Each item on the list can have properties like the date, temperature, and...
by Erik Dietrich | Oct 5, 2021 | Content Marketing
Editorial Note: this post is part of my SEO for Non-Scumbags series, which I began here and am syndicating to this site from daedtech.com, since there’s substantial audience overlap for these posts. It might seem a bit aggressive or presumptuous to write off an...
by Tracy Koenn | Sep 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
We’ve got a long digest this week! What Is Structured Logging and How to Use It First, to learn what structured logging is, you must take a step back and understand what exactly is unstructured logging. With unstructured logging, events are expressed in plain...
by Tracy Koenn | Sep 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
SSH into a Docker Container? How to Execute Your Commands If you’re reading this, you’re probably just getting your head around this Docker thing. So we’re going to take a bold guess here and bet that, until recently, your local dev environment involved...
by Erik Dietrich | Sep 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Editorial note: I originally wrote this post on my DaedTech blog. It and the series that will follow are aimed at engineers training to be our account strategists. But there’s enough overlap that it makes sense to publish on this site as well. Today I’m...
by Tracy Koenn | Sep 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
When, Why, and How to Normalize Data In many cases, insights are hiding right below the surface. Oftentimes this is due to underlying database errors. Data typically funnels in from multiple systems and endpoints with varying structures and forms. This makes it hard...
by Tracy Koenn | Sep 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Best Test Data Management (TDM) Tools in 2021 Test data management (TDM) is a term coined by quality assurance experts (QAs) in reference to tasks and processes around software testing. Since data is part of the phrase, it’s easy to myopically refer to test data...
