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What titles like Junior, Senior, and Expert actually mean in the software business

I have been in the software business for 2 decades. I have worked with a lot of programmers from different countries in various business sectors from telecom and insurance to online banking and health care. 20 years ago when I was a beginner, the words “expert” and “senior” or

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Requirement Analysis: how to use this startup-friendly approach + a case study

by Turgay Çelik Requirement Analysis: how to use this startup-friendly approach + a case study In our previous blog posts, we explained why we decided to develop the Badges App [https://engineering.opsgenie.com/badges-app-opsgenies-response-to-skill-tracking-and-management-challenges-c539feb1db9d] and how we evaluated the feasibility [https://engineering.opsgenie.com/how-did-we-decide-that-our-new-product-idea-is-feasible-d43e0fc6fde9] of our idea at OpsGenie [https://www.opsgenie.com]: Sinc

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React Components – How to Create a Search, Filter, and Pagination Component in React

I wrote the article “How to Search and Filter Components in React” exactly one year ago. > If you’re building a React app, you want your users to be able to search & get exact results. And if you’re getting data from an API, they need to be able to

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How to Read a File Line by Line in Python

When coding in Python, there may be times when you need to open and read the contents of a text file. Luckily enough, there are several ways to do this in Python. The language has many built-in functions, methods, and keywords that you can use to create, write, read and

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How to prioritize what you learn by creating a topic backlog

by Dan Draper How to prioritize what you learn by creating a topic backlog Lessons from 25 years of coding Image courtesy of ShutterstockWay back in 1994, I started learning how to code. I look back on those early days of experimentation with great fondness. My journey kicked off after

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How to build a TodoMVC app with React and 8base GraphQL API

by Andrei Anisimov How to build a TodoMVC app with React and 8base GraphQL API Requirements * git [https://git-scm.com/downloads] * npm [https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm] or yarn [https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/install/#mac-stable] (we use yarn here, but you can use npm if you prefer) * Familiarity with React.js

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How to sharpen your data instincts

With recent advances in machine learning and AI research making headlines on a regular basis these days, it’s little surprise that data science has become an area of real mainstream interest. It certainly makes a great career choice for the analytically minded, requiring a blend of solid programming skills and

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So, you want to work in security?

by Parisa Tabriz So, you want to work in security? Every once in a while, I’ll get an email from an eager stranger asking for advice on how to have a career in security (computer, information, cyber… whatever). This is great! We need more passionate, creative, hard-working people that want

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