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Apr 3, 2024

Speeding up your CI pipeline by 50% or more

Are you running `docker build` in your pipeline? Remember to enable image caching.

Mar 23, 2023

Implementing change

New software to solve problems that didn’t exist last year are coming to the market all the time. Understanding that you can’t stay up to date with all of them is the first step.

Feb 1, 2023

Jaakko Hannikainen

Mutation testing

Because you want to make working software, you are writing tests to ensure that your software works... but how can you verify that do your tests actually work?

Nov 3, 2022

Juha Heljoranta

Software development at and with Bytecraft - Part 4: Being a Crafter

Term Crafter refers to Software Craftsman, but we felt Crafter being more inclusive as a term.

Oct 14, 2022

Juha Heljoranta

Meetup: DevOps, building community, DevSecOps and more

Welcome to our hosted meetup focused on DevOps with talks from leading people in Finland. Janne Hyvönen from Nitor and Niko Kivelä from SOK.

Oct 7, 2022

Juha Heljoranta

Software development at and with Bytecraft - Part 3: Value

In this part we focus on value. What is value, how to measure it and how to add value in software development context?

Sep 12, 2022

Juha Heljoranta

Software Development at and with Bytecraft - Part 2: Skills

Software development today is quite demanding and delivering successful software projects requires a broad set of skills.

Aug 23, 2022

Juha Heljoranta

Software Development at and with Bytecraft - Part 1: Perspective

Delivering working and robust software is non-trivial in a typical software project setting. To better understand why, we need to look at the bigger picture.

Aug 12, 2022

Ville Vuorinen

Why is great documentation cheap?

Documentation is essentially an instructions manual to any software you are working on or building. The better the instructions manual is the faster you can get started.

Jun 29, 2022

Mikko Pohja

Provisiopalkkatyöhön räätälöity työsopimus

Maksamme palkkaa puhtaasti provisiona kunkin työntekijän itse tuottamasta laskutuksesta. Olemme ajatelleet, että näin jokainen työntekijä parhaiten “saa ansionsa mukaan.”

Jun 16, 2022

Ville Vuorinen

Case of UI & UX in enterprise software for cognitive ergonomics

Why do you think we allow horrible user interfaces and user experiences in our enterprise software? Especially when we are extremely critical of software we use everyday? Like Netflix, Spotify, social media, etc.

Sep 2, 2021

Jaakko Hannikainen

Practical state machines

State machines are the University's answer for handling strings. Do they have any practical uses?