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DPL Reading List – February 1, 2019
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. The Mac turns 35 today, and here’s a nifty 1985 recap of year one – “But for all the initial hoopla, it’s worth remembering that the Mac was not an instant blockbuster. During its first year, according to Steven Levy’s seminal Mac…
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Continuous Integration – Executive Summary
Continuous Integration (CI) is a strange concept from the perspective of an outsider. Some of our topics in software development make sense from the outside. Unit tests imply we are adding some value to our development process. Requirement gathering makes sense to almost anyone. But the concept of Continuous Integration seems a little bit like…
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DPL Reading List – January 25, 2019
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. SurveyMonkey’s CEO on Creating a Culture of Curiosity – “Leaders need to find ways to help employees flex their curiosity. We want people to ask big questions—and we want to celebrate them when they do. We want them to think up experiments…
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Using a REST API with AWS, Part 3
In our previous blog posts (Part 1, Part 2), we have created some Lambda functions that query against a DynamoDB table. Now we will put an API gateway in from our services. One complication of hosting is the point of contact, between the callers and the service. In many systems, the callers call the services…
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DPL Reading List – January 18, 2019
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. 12 books that CEOs think you should read in 2019 – “If you’re a founder or aspiring entrepreneur, perhaps you’re looking to round out your reading list for 2019 with a few inspiring business reads. We asked entrepreneurs to offer their book…
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Using a REST API with Amazon Web Services, Part 2
In our previous blog post, we started our project by setting up a Lambda function in Amazon Web Services (AWS). We didn’t dive very deep, we barely even described much about those Lambda functions. Our single Lambda returns all contacts in a table associated with a particular groupid. Now we are going to write three…
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DPL Reading List – January 11, 2019
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. To Cope with Stress, Try Learning Something New – “So what else can employees do to temper the ill effects of stress? Our research suggests a third option: focusing on learning. This can mean picking up a new skill, gathering new information,…
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Using a REST API with Amazon Web Services, Part 1
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a lot of services that make it quick and easy to build software solutions. They provide a lot of services that don’t require a lot of effort to set up. In this post, we are going to set up an AWS backend that can return some contacts that we store…
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The Product Design Lifecycle, Part 1
Those who attended my Vogon Poetry talk on November 13 will notice that we’ve made a few changes to some of the visualizations that I shared. As with our software development processes, we take an iterative approach to just about everything that we do—reacting to feedback on our presentations being no exception. Overview At Don’t…
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DPL Reading List – January 4, 2019
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. The Worst Hacks of 2018 – “After years of targeted hacks, epic heists, and run of the mill data breaches you might think that institutions would be getting wise to the importance of strong cybersecurity. But it seems 2018 was not the…
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