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Jenkins-out CircleCI-in : Does It Worth To Switch Over ?

Jenkins has been widely used for CI/CD processes for many teams and projects.
Migrating from Jenkins to a more modern CI/CD tool like CircleCI can be beneficial.
CircleCI allows local installation of its CLI for debugging and iterating on pipelines.
CircleCI also allows running jobs locally, providing convenience and ease of use.

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Engineering’s Business Value: From Black Box to Clarity

Technology has traditionally been viewed as a cost center and impacted by layoffs and reduction-in-force initiatives, but Value Stream Management (VSM) practices can address the challenge of linking and communicating the ROI of engineering investments.
VSM aligns work with value streams that deliver measurable business and customer outcomes for accurate tracking of costs, ROI, and value delivery at the team and product level.
Modern organizations are solving cost reduction challenges through intentional team design, using stable, cross-functional teams with dedicated software engineers and selective sharing of specialized roles across a limited number of teams.
Defining clear, measurable outcomes and improving visibility can help establish frameworks that articulate the tangible value technology brings to the business, address unnecessary overhead, and avoid layoffs caused by poor resource planning.
Technology success stems from excelling in two core areas: flow and realization. Structured OKRs can bridge these areas by translating organizational strategy into team-level objectives and ensuring every technical effort connects directly to business outcomes.
Success lies in whether work delivered creates valuable outcomes and the ability to gain insights even when results fall short of expectations, empowering teams to refine their approach or pivot entirely.
Starting with anticipated outcomes enables teams to develop meaningful OKRs that align with broader strategic objectives, define clear customer-centric goals and connect directly to the organization’s strategic direction.
Measurable business features and technical debt investments, when linked to specific outcomes, become strategic initiatives with identifiable business value, rather than “mysterious maintenance work”.
By documenting both anticipated and actual outcomes at the epic level, teams can refine their approach and make strategic decisions that drive growth, while justifying investments and creating a roadmap for long-term success.
By closing the gap between investment and impact, organizations can transform how they view technology, from a cost center to a catalyst for innovation, growth, and customer satisfaction.

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Profitable Engineering: Linking Software Engineering to Business Results

This three-part series aims to show a direct connection between software engineering and business results.
It provides practical insights and strategies to shift the perspective of technology as a cost center.
The articles cover topics such as redefining the value of technology, evolving engineering as a strategic partner, and shifting towards delivering meaningful outcomes.
The series encourages readers to transform their approach and align technology with measurable outcomes.

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The Trouble With Job Descriptions

Job descriptions can be limiting and restrictive, leading to employees feeling pigeon-holed in their specific roles and reluctant to engage with other areas within the organization.
In a team or organization, rigid job identities lead to fragmentation and silos, with a breakdown of unified vision and execution.
This can lead to a lack of psychological safety and trust, ultimately resulting in a dysfunctional team and conflicting priorities.
Admiral Rickover proposed a management framework that focuses on general responsibilities without formal job descriptions or organizational charts.
Creating a flexible and inclusive environment that allows employees to seek out added work and greater responsibility can help encourage growth and innovation.
While job descriptions may have benefits such as helping with onboarding, they can become rigid as businesses evolve and change.
This can hinder collaboration, stifle talent, and harm the organization’s overall success.
Rickover's approach fosters a self-reliant culture where individuals earn respect through their abilities rather than rigidly defined roles.
To encourage cohesion and employee retention, it may be beneficial for companies to move away from overly specific and restrictive job descriptions.
Instead, a flexible and inclusive environment may lead to greater success and collaboration for early-stage companies where human capital is vital.

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How to send a personal video message from Santa using AI

Synthesia has launched an AI-powered video platform that allows users to send personalized video messages from Santa Claus.
The platform offers a variety of templates and uses advanced AI-powered text-to-speech and video generation technology to create lifelike AI-generated Santa videos.
Synthesia screens all user-submitted scripts to ensure the messages are family-friendly and jolly.
To send a video from Santa, users can choose a template, craft a personalized message, submit it, and share the generated video with their loved ones.

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Idempotency in Software: All You Need to Know

Idempotency in software is the ability for a service or consumer to read the same message multiple times yielding the same result as if they only read it once.
It is important in distributed systems, where network failures or system crashes can lead to the same message being processed multiple times.
Idempotent functions produce the same output given the same inputs, regardless of the number of times they are applied.
Idempotency is crucial in APIs because a resource may be called multiple times if the network is interrupted.
Idempotency in distributed systems ensures that even with network failures or system crashes, your system will have overall correctness.
Idempotent message queueing systems ensure that the same message is not processed multiple times.
Idempotent operations guarantee that the same request is not processed more than once.
By implementing idempotent functions, APIs and infrastructure architecture (queues) systems become more robust and less prone to failure and data inconsistency.
Being idempotent allows systems to be consistent and predictable.
Idempotency simplifies error handling, concurrency management, debugging, and monitoring in operations and APIs.

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Dawgz AI Crosses $500,000 In Presale: A New AI-Powered Meme Coin For Crypto Enthusiasts

Dawgz AI, a blockchain-based project offering an AI-powered meme coin, surpasses $500,000 in presale.
Dawgz AI combines blockchain technology and AI-powered trading algorithms to offer rewards for investors through its Blackbox AI technology.
The project has raised $500,000 with a total token supply of 8,888,888,888 $DAGZ, demonstrating growth potential.
Dawgz AI ensures security and transparency by having its smart contracts audited by SolidProof.

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New Crypto Casino Platform Winna.com Secures $15 Million In Seed Funding

Crypto casino platform Winna.com has secured $15 million in seed funding.
The funding will be used to enhance product offerings and accelerate growth.
Winna.com aims to transform online gambling through crypto and provably fair gaming.
The platform offers a diverse range of games, including slots, live casino games, and a crypto-first sportsbook.

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MEXC Grows Global Reach With 17 New Languages, Strengthening Its Presence In Emerging Markets

MEXC, a leading global cryptocurrency exchange, has added support for 17 languages on its website.
The addition of these languages enhances the trading experience for users worldwide and reflects MEXC's commitment to global growth and cultural diversity.
The expansion is expected to improve user experience, accelerate global expansion, expand the user base, and promote cultural inclusion.
MEXC is dedicated to facilitating easier participation in cryptocurrency investments and is focused on optimizing multilingual support.

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There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Personality — Just Bad Management

When you transition from engineer to engineering manager (EM), you shift from dealing with technical tasks to working with people. Diversity is an important consideration for your team and results. However, the most important diversity is the mix of personalities you’ll be working with. Everyone has a different personality and approach to work. The problem is when someone doesn’t understand this and fails to manage the different personalities on their team appropriately. You have to take personality into account when working with your team, especially when giving critical feedback. Everyone has different connection needs based on their personality. You need to accept personality traits as part of the people you’re working with and not take it personally. Managing different kinds of people well takes time.
As an EM, you’ll not only oversee technical tasks, but you'll also need to manage your team. This means being aware of their personalities and how they impact team dynamics. This means speaking to each side in a “language” they’ll understand. Failing to make personality management a priority means spending even more time, energy, and resources hiring and training replacements. Knowing how people’s personalities work will help you build better and healthier relationships with them. It also helps you resist the tendency to approach your team with a one-size-fits-all approach.

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Java’s Stream.peek() Method Explained

The peek() method is part of Java’s Stream API, introduced in Java 8.
It allows you to see what happens at each step without altering the data itself, which is useful for debugging and logging during stream processing.
The peek() method is helpful when you need to inspect the elements flowing through a stream pipeline.
It is important to use peek() thoughtfully to keep your code clear and prevent unexpected side effects.

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All about Motherboards

A motherboard is like the ultimate multi-tasker, managing and integrating various components of your computer.
Built-in features of most motherboards include Ethernet ports for wired internet connections and basic sound capabilities.
The motherboard serves as a hub for connecting components such as the CPU and peripherals.
Motherboards also support discrete devices that can be swapped out for upgrades.

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Atoms For Peace: the US Nuclear Fleet Build-Out and Modern-Day Revival

US President Dwight D. Eisenhower held his ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech, during which he would not only promote the peaceful use of nuclear technologies but also lay the groundwork for what would become the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Today the US operates 94 reactors, which generate nearly 20% of the country’s electricity.
Canadian engineers, in their Generation II reactor designs, went with heavy water in the pressurized heavy water CANDU reactor (PHWR), as this allowed for the use of unenriched uranium as its fuel.
The two basic types of LWR that still form the backbone of the US nuclear fleet today are BWRs and PWRs.
Much as we can see today with the nuclear fleet build-out in China with the Westinghouse AP1000 and derived designs (CAP1000 and Hualong One), strong political and financial backing combined with a mature nuclear power supply chain means that the time from first concrete to grid connection can be as little as four to five years.
When the US began building its nuclear fleet last century, this knowledge was strong and supply chains robust. During the 1980s and until recently, both were allowed to degrade.
As the economics of the energy market change, and financing options become available with the scrapping of various anti-nuclear power regulations, there’s now a surge in interest among companies and investors in not only new builds, but also in reviving units that were already turned off and put into decommissioning status.
Returning a nuclear reactor from a decommissioning state back to an operational one is pretty much an abbreviated case of constructing one: every component has to be inspected, with missing, damaged or otherwise unsuitable components replaced.
Although the US has in the past demonstrated that it can build many nuclear reactors fast and safely, it would appear that the biggest obstacles are primarily a lack of political willpower, an atrophied nuclear industry and an abundance of red tape.
The successfully running AP1000 GenIII+ PWRs in China, South Korea, and the US demonstrate that the problem never was US engineering chops.

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Can’t Code Without It: The (FREE) Tool That Boosted My Productivity by 80%

GitHub Copilot has revolutionized how the author writes code and has become an indispensable part of their workflow.
The author started using GitHub Copilot during the beta program and found it to be a game-changer.
GitHub offers free access to Copilot through their student program and recently launched a free tier for non-students.
Copilot saves time, understands the author's coding style, and boosts productivity by up to 80%.

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What’s the Difference Between null and undefined in JavaScript?

In JavaScript, null and undefined both represent "empty" values, but they serve different purposes and are used in specific contexts.
undefined indicates a variable has been declared but not assigned a value, or it refers to a property that doesn’t exist on an object.
null is an explicit assignment to signify an intentional absence of any value, often used to indicate "no value" or "empty" when resetting or clearing an existing value.
Using null and undefined intentionally clarifies the code's purpose and avoids unexpected behavior.

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