Questions tagged [software-engineering]
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QA instability due to lack of stable UAT/staging environment
Our testing teams are facing extensive downtime due to testing in a shared QA environment.
When our front end teams perform end to end testing, their test (QA) environment points to the back end ...
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How to build, package and deploy a react-native-web app in a Docker container?
Given there is a react-native-web solution, what needs to be done to build it and run inside a Docker container?
What is the build environment/toolchain?
Which environment is required to run?
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What does "build step" mean?
The term build step is used everywhere, yet I searched both google.com and qwant.com to no avail. That baffles my mind.
I also searched for a developer terminology index. Anyone has a good explanation ...
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Should I give an assessment to DevOps Candidate
We're a software team currently trying to hire a DevOps Engineer.
We have an assessment for Software Developer candidates and we're currently evaluating the idea of having an assessment for our ...
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What are the different types of work in a development team?
I'm currently on my annual re-read of The Phoenix Project and we're going through the different types of work that an Ops Team face. These are:
Project Work
Changes
Internal Projects
Unplanned Work
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How well can agile pair programming work in interdisciplinary DevOps contexts?
In agile, pair programming can be performed like the following:
two specialists of same discipline change the place before the terminal and each has a chance to code and to conceptualize/reflect;
two ...
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git - develop base and extended feature - commits in base should reflect in extended in pull
Hie I am working around in git to achieve something like mentioned below.
Imagine there is a Big feature which is going to develop - since it's very big they have split into core feature and an ...
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What is the cheapest way to get CI for a Qt project?
To build up my portfolio I'm writing an application to showcase all the best practices I'm aware of, including unit tests and continuous integration.
The project was originally started in C++, and I ...
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Jenkins: What is a build?
I'm coming from Ops and I don't have a heavy software engineering background. In Jenkins, what is a "build" exactly and why is it named such? When I build a shell/powershell script, I'm not really ...
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Software/devops engineer's personal dashboard recomendations
Can you recommend a free tool or GitHub project that is designed for an individual to keep up/aware of their daily tasks and operations?
For example:
Show perf metrics from running azure VMs in ...
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Crash course in Dev for Ops?
I schooled in CompSci where we were primarily taught Java, but what I learned there is that my passion is systems, so I've always worked the ops side. I'm handy with scripting, so I'm not looking for ...
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"Software Development" which environment is it: Manufacturing or Projects?
Is it Manufacturing or Projects?
Definitions I am using for these:
Project
Planned set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations.
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Application calling AWS internal load balancer in same subnet is timing out
Some background:
I've created a moderately complex network using Amazon's vpc. It's a three-tiered network across two availability zones. Each layer has a subnet in zone-a and zone-b. The ...
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How do I hire a good DevOps, fitting my company?
Good developers should fit rule 11 of the Joel Test:
Do new candidates write code during their interview?
However, I know little to nothing about Docker containers, how to configure Jenkins or AWS,...
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What are ways to mitigate the effects of Mythical Man Month?
Brooks's law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
In his book No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering Frederick Brooks defines the concept of Mythical ...
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