Code for a Living Archives

code-for-a-living February 19, 2023

Developer with ADHD? You’re not alone.

Is there a connection between programming and ADHD? And could it be that people with ADHD are particularly well-suited to programming careers?

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

code-for-a-living February 16, 2023

Monitoring debt builds up faster than software teams can pay it off

Today, it’s easier than ever for a team to monitor software in production. But it's also easy to build up a lot of tech debt around monitoring.

Jean Yang

code-for-a-living February 15, 2023

Serverless scales well, but most databases don’t

The benefits that come from serverless computing can be lost if you have to spend your time provisioning hardware for your database.

Stanimira Vlaeva and Fred Favelin

code-for-a-living February 13, 2023

Coding 102: Writing code other people can read

That bootcamp may have taught you to write code that works. But the next level is to write code that works with other people.

Max Pekarsky Software Engineer

code-for-a-living February 9, 2023

Three layers to secure a software development organization

This affects the individual developer writing insecure code, the engineering team blindly trusting their dependencies, and the organization thinking that their best bet is to roll their own security controls.

Tanya Janca

code-for-a-living February 6, 2023

The nature of simulating nature: Q&A with IBM quantum computing research

We chat with Dr. Jeannette (Jamie) Garcia, Senior Research Manager of Quantum Applications and Software at IBM Quantum, about their 433 qubit quantum computer and what the real life applications of quantum computing are today.