What Is Backlog Grooming and How Do You Do It? Backlog grooming is a critical part of any agile software development lifecycle. Nearly every software team has much more work than they can do at any one time. So, along the way, they’ll need to figure out which items to work on next. Backlog grooming…
How to Schedule a Jenkins Job: A Simple Guide When your team starts using Jenkins, you’ll see how quickly the game changes. Instead of sharing a “build PC” or ensuring everyone uses the same build tools and environment, you’ll only need to share a single system that runs your builds and publishes the results. But Jenkins…
Git Revert Explained: Safely Undoing Your Changes As a collaborator to a project, chances are that you will make a bad commit every once in a while—this is inevitable. In fact, some of the frequently asked questions by Git and GitHub users include “How do I undo a commit I made in Git?” and “How…
Build Your Code: A Complete, Introductory Gradle Tutorial Well, when it comes to developing software, learning a programming language isn’t the only thing you need to do, despite being a crucial step. It’s also essential you learn the surrounding ecosystem of the programming language, with all its auxiliary tools, such as unit testing frameworks, logging…
How to Select a Value From Dropdown With Selenium Older web applications were simple. They were static and included a couple of headings and paragraphs. But as web applications progressed, it became a different game altogether. As web applications get upgraded with new features, they become more complex. Modern web applications contain different kinds of…
What Is Pipeline as Code? A Simple Explanation With Examples Simply put, Pipeline as Code means treating your build and deploy jobs like application code. How you deliver and deploy your applications is just as important as how you create them, so managing those activities with the same policies and procedures you use for your…
What Is a Website Defacement Attack and How to Prevent It? Website defacement is a type of website vandalism. In short, an attacker finds a way to modify the files or contents of your website without your permission. Usually, they’ll change the contents of your website to something intended to embarrass you. Sometimes, activists deface…
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 increase your chances of success by sticking to a solid project plan. Keep…
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,” and contrary to what many people think, they aren’t just…
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 gather the logs generated by all your applications. Collecting logs isn’t enough. Previously, we…
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 city for the forecast. With the help of RecyclerView, it is possible to…
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 entire discipline as tactical. But, I guess, here we are. I’ve…
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 text—in other words, plain English (or another language). The assumption here is…
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 some sort of virtual machine engine—Vagrant, maybe? Just ask yourself: Why would you…
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 going to start a blog post series that fits into…