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Cat’s research centers on the socio-cognitive factors and processes that help people learn and succeed. In her role as director of Pluralsight Flow’s Developer Success Lab, she studies what makes software teams thrive and shares that research with the community so teams can learn from her findings.

In a recent report, the Dev Success Lab explored how visibility can encourage higher-performing teams and better business outcomes.

Pluralsight is an education platform for software developers. Pluralsight Flow, their software delivery intelligence platform, is designed to eliminate developer friction and wasted time.

Cat is on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Today’s Lifeboat badge winner is Kent Kostelac, who gave a terrific answer to One-line if-else in C#.

ICYMI, listen to our episode with Agile pioneer Jim Highsmith: The meeting that changed how we build software (Ep. 579).

Explore Connell’s website or his talks.

Connell will be speaking at DDD East Midlands again this year: October 7, 2023 (with apologies to our British listeners for the date format). 

He’s also on GitHub, Twitter, and Stack Overflow (naturally).

Thanks to Connell for answering his own question: Why does this SelectMany perform several SQL queries instead of a single join?.

Netlify’s all-in-one development platform gives devs access to build, deploy, and backend services for websites and web apps. Get started with their docs.

Jamstack is a web development architecture based on JavaScript, APIs, and Markup (the JAM in Jamstack). Learn what Jamstack is and what benefits it offers.

Composable architecture has been called “the next big thing” in web development. Netlify defines it as “a development approach [that] provides the ability to more rapidly build technology stacks by making use of logically separated reusable and customizable components.”

Dana is on LinkedIn.

Warm congrats to Lifeboat badge winner hasectic saif, who rescued the question How can I print to standard error in C with 'printf'? from an answerless void.

VerseProp is a digital real estate platform where users can buy, sell, and rent virtual properties.

New to the concept of digital real estate? The Motley Fool has a useful primer for you.

If you need to brush up on your investment terms, a supercycle is “a sustained period of expansion, usually driven by robust growth in demand for products and services.”

Joel is on LinkedIn.

Will is on LinkedIn.

Follow VerseProp on Twitter, where the team welcomes questions.

Today’s Lifeboat badge is awarded to Omar, for helping 44,000 people and counting with their answer to Event handlers on Message box buttons.

Our 2023 Developer Survey explored AI’s benefits for developers. Read about the results here.

For more WWDC talk, listen to our episode from last month: Chatting with Apple at WWDC: Macros in Swift and the new visionOS (Ep. 578).

Squarespace is acquiring Google Domains.

Congratulations to Bruno Brant, who won a Lifeboat badge for answering Where can I view LINQ source code?.

While he’s been the dean of the School of Computer Science since 2019, Martial started his career at Carnegie Mellon University way back in 1984. 

Ben covered LIDAR inventor Velodyne while at the Verge, while Martial has LIDAR’s ancestor, the laser rangefinder, which was state of the art in 1986. 

Martial’s area of research is in computer vision and perception for autonomous systems. Since 1985, he’s been a part of 388 publications. 

Congrats to Lifeboat winner mx0 for their answer to the question “How to use a reserved keyword in pydantic model?”

Software might not be top of mind when you think of an energy company like Shell, but software engineering powers a lot of what they do. The tech stack includes React, Golang, Python, GraphQL, MongoDB, Kafka, and the list goes on. The experience their developers have at work is a priority for the organization and its leaders. 

Episode notes:

Find out why others have joined Shell. 

If you want to experience what being a developer at one of the world’s largest energy companies looks like, they’re hiring.

You can connect with Abhai on LinkedIn. 

Congrats to this episode’s lifeboat badge winner, CertainPerformance, for their answer to 

Convert different strings to snake_case in JavaScript

. You saved the question and got some shinies for your profile. 

Adam is the cofounder and former CTO of Chef, which provides DevOps automation tools that help configure, deploy, and manage application infrastructure, including security and compliance.

Adam’s new venture, System Initiative, reimagines infrastructure-as-code as collaborative, open-source software. See what they’re up to on their blog, starting with Adam’s article DevOps without papercuts.

If you’re interested in playing with a developer build of System Initiative, submit your information here. You can also join System Initiative on Discord (and keep an eye on their open positions).

Connect with Adam on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Sofy is a no-code test automation platform for mobile apps. SofySense is their OpenAI-powered AI assistant. See what they’re up to on their blog or check out their open roles.

One of the biggest challenges in testing is deciding whether to use mock or live data. 

Interested in reading about how Stack Overflow is building up our test coverage?

Syed is on LinkedIn.

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Todd A. Jacobs for interceding between the question How can I check whether a string is an integer in Ruby? and the relentless march of time.

CodiumAI plugs into your IDE and suggests meaningful test suites as you code. See what they’re up to on their blog or scope out their open roles. You can also follow them on Twitter.

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Today’s Lifeboat badge is awarded to Héctor M. for answering Convert a string to a Boolean in C#. Thanks for spreading some knowledge.