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Advancing Your Software Engineering Career in 2025

Here's my take on how you can smoothly navigate a swiftly evolving career landscape and propel your career forward come what may.

May 26, 2025

by Gaurav Mishra

· 4,323 Views · 3 Likes

The Perfection Trap: Rethinking Parkinson's Law for Modern Engineering Teams

Work expands in engineering through perfectionism, not laziness. Leaders need to create healthy constraints guiding teams towards value rather than pursue endless polish.

May 26, 2025

by Tim Schmolka

· 3,525 Views · 5 Likes

Navigating Change Management: A Guide for Engineers

Manage uncertainty by focusing on skills and relationships within your control. This article provides strategies for navigating change while building career resilience.

May 23, 2025

by Tim Schmolka

· 3,223 Views · 1 Like

Distributed Consensus: Paxos vs. Raft and Modern Implementations

In this post we'll explore the fundamentals of distributed consensus, compare Paxos and Raft, and examine recent implementations like Kafka Raft.

May 23, 2025

by narendra reddy sanikommu

· 5,988 Views · 2 Likes

Agile’s Quarter-Century Crisis

Despite 25 years of the Agile Manifesto, countless books, a certification industry, conferences, and consultants, we collectively struggle to make Agile work.

February 26, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 3,474 Views · 3 Likes

AI-Driven Root Cause Analysis in SRE: Enhancing Incident Resolution

This article examines how AI is transforming root cause analysis (RCA) in Site Reliability Engineering by automating incident resolution and improving system reliability.

May 16, 2025

by Nikhil Kapoor

· 5,148 Views · 5 Likes

Optimizing Integration Workflows With Spark Structured Streaming and Cloud Services

Learn how Spark Structured Streaming and cloud services optimize real-time data integration with scalable, fault-tolerant workflows for modern applications.

May 15, 2025

by Bharath Muddarla

· 8,067 Views · 3 Likes

Ethical AI in Agile

Learn all about ethical AI integration for Agile teams with four key guardrails: Data Privacy, Human Value, Output Validation, and Transparent Attribution.

May 14, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 3,008 Views · 2 Likes

Agile and Quality Engineering: A Holistic Perspective

Discover how Scrum and Agile principles drive collaboration, early feedback, and test automation to deliver high-quality, user-centric software at speed.

May 13, 2025

by Samuel Maniraj Selvaraj

· 2,942 Views · 1 Like

Is Agile Right for Every Project? When To Use It and When To Avoid It

Agile works best for projects requiring flexibility, collaboration, and ongoing adjustments (e.g., software development).

May 12, 2025

by Samuel Ogbonna

· 4,508 Views · 4 Likes

How to Practice TDD With Kotlin

Learn how to implement TDD with Kotlin. We'll also learn how to improve the readability of our test or reuse the same process.

Updated May 8, 2025

by Ludovic Dorival

· 8,457 Views · 2 Likes

Top Book Picks for Site Reliability Engineers

As an experienced SRE, I believe reading is fundamental. Here is a list of a few books that I feel every SRE will benefit from to become better at their jobs.

May 7, 2025

by Krishna Vinnakota

· 6,779 Views · 3 Likes

Recurrent Workflows With Cloud Native Dapr Jobs

Workflow scheduling is something we see often. As part of this article, we will look at how Dapr Jobs helps to easily run periodic workloads.

May 5, 2025

by Siri Varma Vegiraju

CORE

· 26,129 Views · 1 Like

Rethinking Recruitment: A Journey Through Hiring Practices

Reflections and insights on the evolution of hiring processes, highlighting the need for innovation, efficiency, and a candidate-focused approach to recruitment.

May 2, 2025

by Miguel Garcia

CORE

· 3,639 Views · 4 Likes

Breaking Bottlenecks: Applying the Theory of Constraints to Software Development

Use TOC to spot and fix your main software bottleneck, maximize efficiency, and keep iterating for continuous improvements.

May 2, 2025

by Pavlo Sobchuk

· 9,104 Views · 3 Likes

On-Call That Doesn’t Suck: A Guide for Data Engineers

Data pipelines don’t fail silently; they make a lot of noise. The question is, are you listening to the signal or drowning in noise?

April 29, 2025

by Tulika Bhatt

· 3,616 Views · 3 Likes

Contextual AI Integration for Agile Product Teams

This article introduces Contextual AI Integration for agile product teams. Stop treating AI as a team member to “onboard;“ AI is a tool that requires context.

April 28, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 4,799 Views · 2 Likes

Platform Engineering for Cloud Teams

Platform engineering empowers cloud teams by streamlining infrastructure, automating workflows, and enhancing developer experience to drive efficiency and innovation.

April 21, 2025

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce, Ph.D

CORE

· 7,530 Views · 10 Likes

AI Interview Analysis

This article discusses how to use generative artificial intelligence to analyze interviews from teammates, stakeholders, and management for better insights.

April 21, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 3,611 Views · 3 Likes

The Hidden Breach: Secrets Leaked Outside the Codebase Pose a Serious Threat

Secrets aren't just in code. Recent reports show major leaks in collaboration tools like Slack, Jira, and Confluence. Here’s what security teams need to know.

April 17, 2025

by Dwayne McDaniel

· 4,644 Views · 1 Like

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