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Most architecture methods try to predict which failures will hit. Residuality Theory does the opposite: it throws random stressors at a design and keeps whatever survives. The randomness is the point, because resilience that depends on predicting the future is not resilience at all.
In an ever-changing industry, it’s important to constantly keep re-evaluating your own methods and processes. Do they still serve the needs of today? Are
Most software engineers are aware of the fact that pair programming can have some huge advantages. It’s one of the most efficient ways to
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, seems to be getting quite some attention these days in the container orchestration world. It even got some attention from
For the last decade every tech firm and aspiring app developer out there could count on the durability of one crucial structural dynamic in the
What’s this Firebase thingy? You might have heard about Firebase, a real-time database that stores data as JSON object and was acquired by Google
When working on a legacy codebase, you often have to make changes in code you don’t fully understand. When this code is not tested,
Becoming enotionally involved? This blogpost explains why we really like the all-in-one workspace to write, plan, collaborate, and get organized.
My name is Vicky Jáuregui, I am a passionate software engineer from Argentina who matched with a one-of-a-kind company. Here is the story on how
We really care about everyone that works at madewithlove. So we want to be doubly sure your core values will match (or add to) our
I have a history of working in companies where you were expected to be in the office or at the client 95% of the time.
A recap of my first month at madewithlove Hi, my name is Gabriel Martinez. I’m a last-year student in Computer Graphics Design, option Web,
During a rare visit to our offices, a customer was extremely surprised to find that literally everybody in the office was wearing headphones while doing
As you may have noticed, we are huge fans of remote working and we never pass on an opportunity to explain the concept to our
Lately we have been missing the Sense Chrome extension, basically because of the autocompletes when we are writing some Elasticsearch queries, or debugging something. It
I didn’t like the code I wrote for a particular feature. It was “notify users when someone comments in a discussion” with these requirements:
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