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Probing Questions For Your Interview

By Scott Sosna 2023-07-12technology

I've worked for many organizations of different types during my long, perhaps not-so-illustrious professional career: software and business shops; Fortune 500 and VC-funded startups; in retail, financial, healthcare, hardware; bleeding-edge…

Graph Databases and Baseball

By Scott Sosna 2023-07-05baseball, sports, technology

In my opinion, stating that baseball remains America's Pastime in 2023 is a tough argument to make, as it often is as the third-most popular sport in the United States.…

It’s Elementary Privacy, Watson!

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-26technology

In today's (mostly) digital world, maintaining data privacy and data security should be an ongoing discussion in all businesses, especially those developing applications, both internal business shops and software shops…

Non-Traditional Project Planning

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-21technology

Most methodology discussions today start and end with how Agile is superior to Waterfall in software engineering; in reality, many other methodologies exist, each with its own pros and cons.…

Dependent Feature Flags

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-14technology

Recently I was given the task refactoring and reimplementing the service which determines the users' authorizations within our SaaS application. The major challenge was to do the work without anyone…

Software Shops and Name Recognition

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-09technology

Many engineers envision working for major technology companies: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Amazon, Atlassian, EBay, JetBrains, Meta (Facebook), Redhat, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce. Sure, you'll be a small fish in a…

Personalized Code Searches using OpenGrok

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-05technology

Many organizations implement a full-feature code search/intelligence tool - e.g., SourceGraph or Atlassian Fisheye - allowing engineers to search the enterprise code base. Other orgs just use the native search of the hosted version…

Understanding Dependencies….Visually!

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-02technology

Show of hands: how many of us truly understand how your build automation tool builds its dependency tree? Now lower your hand if you understand because you work on build…

From On-Prem to SaaS

By Scott Sosna 2023-05-30technology

Organizations whom develop software solutions are often classified according to the targeted consumers: business shops whose solutions support the business (e.g., internal consumption), and software shops whose solutions are sold…