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For many developers, QA automation engineers, and site reliability engineers participating in agile development teams, the delivery work starts by defining user stories and committing to complete them in sprints. Sometimes, the user story calls for a “back-end” implementation, such as configuring a data integration, coding a microservice API, addressing technical debt, or improving application performance. These are still user stories because their implementations provide business value, but the product owner can specify the target user experience with technical criteria.  When the feature or user story calls for a “front-end” implementation that impacts the usability and requires a design, agile teams must decide when and how to incorporate design thinking, wireframing, user experience, and design specifications into the requirements. To read this article in full, please click here

Up until this week, it would have been easy to get caught up in the fiction that growth in public cloud spending was slowing. After all, if you looked across the different cloud providers, you’d see them reporting lower growth rates each quarter, as Jordan Novet captures in a chart . This quarter, however, each of the major clouds ticked up on growth or stayed roughly constant. This isn’t going to stop anytime soon, as a new Accenture report indicates. The Covid era may be one that we can’t wait to get past and forget, but it has created tremendous impetus for digital transformation projects that were planned but never executed. Still, the question remains, how fast can we get to the future? To read this article in full, please click here

Using iCloud Drive, your Mac can sync the data in your Desktop and Documents folders between all your Apple devices. It’s handy, but it takes up iCloud storage space and might have privacy implications. If you’ve previously enabled this feature, here’s how to turn it off. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Instagram has three account types: Personal, Creator, and Business. Personal accounts work for most people, while the two Professional account options are ideal for those who have a business and plan to run ads, promote posts, sell products, and gather analytics. Here’s how to switch between them. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Telegram is a convenient chat app. Even malware creators think so! ToxicEye is a RAT malware program that piggybacks on Telegram’s network, communicating with its creators through the popular chat service. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

For better privacy, devices running Android 10 or later use a randomized Wi-Fi MAC address by default. In some cases, you might want to disable this feature. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

CRN published one of those slideshow articles revealing “The Most In-Demand Cloud Computing Jobs For 2021.” Spoiler alert: Cloud engineers are in the most demand, earning an average annual salary of $118,000. Of course, “cloud engineer” could mean many different things in many different organizations. Let’s just say it’s someone who knows a lot about cloud computing and is also a hands-on problem solver. [ Also on InfoWorld: Cloud tech certifications count more than degrees now ] The great thing about cloud computing is it has been in demand for the last 8 to 10 years, depending on what aspect of cloud computing you wanted to specialize in. As the demand rose, so did the number of those in and outside of IT who sought a cloud computing career path. I’ve seen teachers, cops, social workers, stay-at-home-parents, and those on very different career paths pivot to cloud computing, and most have done well. To read this article in full, please click here

Dragging windows using your Mac’s trackpad can be tedious: You need to click, hold, then drag. But thanks to a little-known accessibility feature, you can quickly drag windows using a three-finger gesture instead. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

React remains the most popular JavaScript framework. This article covers the latest tips on wringing the most performance from the React framework, including functional components and the Suspense feature. React works by maintaining an in-memory model of the view (often called a virtual DOM) that is used to determine if and when the actual DOM should be updated. Manipulating the actual DOM is expensive, so many performance improvements revolve around ensuring that changes to the DOM occur only when absolutely necessary. To read this article in full, please click here

The HomePod Mini makes for a great little smart speaker. But the “Hey Siri” functionality can sometimes be less than perfect. If you just want to only use your HomePod Mini as AirPlay speakers, you can disable the “Hey Siri” functionality. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Fire tables are a great way to add the ambiance and allure of a fire pit to your patio without all the hassle. Not only are they beautiful when lit, but they double as tables for placing down beverages and enjoying company too. Read This Article on LifeSavvy ›

Have you ever wanted to have the cover of a book you were reading as your Kindle screensaver? Well, until recently, you had to jailbreak your Kindle to do it. In 2021, though, it’s finally an official feature. Here’s how to turn on this long-awaited option. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Hulu’s selection of worthwhile action movies is heavy on blockbusters, with some more offbeat choices added in. Here are 10 of the best action movies to stream on Hulu. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Android notifications are great, but they’re not perfect. The way that some notifications pop up on the screen can be annoying, especially if they’re not important. Thankfully, you can stop this from happening. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

Docker Compose lets you manage multiple Docker containers and their associated resources such as volumes and networks. You write declarative YAML files which Compose uses to create your container stack. Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›

Chrome and Edge both offer a guest mode that keeps your browsing isolated from your main profiles. If you access guest mode too frequently, you can add its shortcut to your Windows desktop. This makes opening guest mode even easier. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

iCloud Photos automatically uploads and syncs all your images between all your Apple devices. It’s a great backup solution, but it might be eating up your Mac’s storage. Here’s how to disable iCloud Photos on Mac. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›

LLVM 12, the latest release of the open source LLVM compiler infrastructure platform , published April 14, features optimizations for the x86 target as well as changes to the AArch64 Arm back end. For the x86 target, a new function attribute, tune-cpu, has been added to support -mtune like GCC, allowing microarchitectural optimizations to be applied independently from the target-cpu attribute or TargetMachine CPU, which will be used to select the instruction set. If this attribute is not present, the tune CPU will follow the target CPU. Also for the x86 target, the assembler now supports {disp32} and {disp8} pseudo prefixes to control displacement size for memory operands and jump placements. To read this article in full, please click here

Kotlin 1.5.0, an upgrade to JetBrains’ statically typed language , has moved to a release candidate stage and is now feature-complete. Highlights include unsigned integer types and an improved testing library. With Kotlin 1.5.0, unsigned integer types, available in beta since Kotlin 1.3, are classified as stable, making them safe to use in real projects and available without opt-in. Unsigned integer types include UInt, ULong, UByte, UShort, and related functions. The standard library’s unsigned integer API is useful for dealing with non-negative integer operations. The newly stable APIs include unsigned integers, ranges and progressions of unsigned integer types, and functions that operate with unsigned integer types. Arrays of unsigned integers are still in beta. To read this article in full, please click here

Microsoft is moving standardization of its object-oriented, type-safe C# language to a public repository of the .NET Foundation, providing a public space for ongoing work on the standard. Everything from language innovation and feature design through implementation and standardization will now take place in the “open,” with conversations public. This will make standardization work easier, Microsoft said. The dotnet/csharpstandard repo on GitHub will be the working space for the ECMA C# standard committee. To read this article in full, please click here