We are excited to highlight the open source availability of Status, a Java library that can report a system’s status in a readable format. The Status library enables dynamic health checks and monitoring of system dependencies. In this post, we will show how to add health checks to your applications. Why use system status health […]
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Finding Great (and Profitable) Ideas in the Computer Science Literature
I spend quite a bit of time trawling through recent computer science papers, looking for anything algorithmic that might improve my team’s product and Help People Get Jobs. It’s been a mixed bag so far, often turning up a bunch of pretty math that won’t scale at Indeed. But looking through the computer science literature can […]
Why I Unit Test
If you’ve done any software development in the last fifteen years, you’ve heard people harping on the importance of unit testing. Your manager might have come to you and said “Unit tests are great! They document the code, reduce the risk of adding bugs, and reduce the cost and risk of making changes so we […]