In the world of agile sometimes dates matter, hold on let me finish. The day something goes to production should not be considered firm until closer to delivery. Stakeholders consider a date the date, but in reality, they are really hard to set. They are based on estimates, based on...

In this post I will go through a simple tutorial for using Dev Endpoints and notebooks for Glue ETL development. This tutorial will be intentionally basic, so that you can get an understanding of how dev endpoint notebooks can be useful for your ETL development without getting bogged down in...

For 20 years, face-to-face collaboration and side-by-side pair programming have helped Source Allies teammates build a strong web of working relationships. These relationships grow between teammates, partners, Source Allies as a whole and the local developer community. Two months ago, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Source Allies teammates had to...

A year ago I joined a team which made heavy use of the Java Reactor library for their pub-sub system. Reactor is a library for high-performance, parallel programming using a functional API. The code tends to look like this: Flux.from(p) .ofType(SubscribeToShardEvent.class) .flatMapIterable(SubscribeToShardEvent::records) .limitRate(1000) .buffer(25) .subscribe(e -> System.out.println("Record batch = "...

Recently, some of us at Source Allies had the opportunity to participate in the 8th annual dsmHack charity hackathon. We were struck by how much participating in the hack aligned with our core values. At Source Allies, we use our core values as guideposts while interacting with our partners and...

Data analytics unlocks the power of data to inform business decisions and streamline processes. Our forward-thinking approach combines development teams with analytics experts at the beginning of the software development lifecycle to make data analyzable from the start. This post is an excerpt from our latest Executive Overview: Analytics Synergy...

Every year the Women in Data Science initiative (WiDS) provides a datathon open to teams with an interest in data science regardless of experience. WiDS defines a datathon as a “data-focused hackathon — given a dataset and a limited amount of time, participants are challenged to use their creativity and...

This blog is part of a series on end-to-end (E2E) testing in Cypress. In this post, we will take a look at how our team uses Cypress to benefit our workflow and increase the safety in which we deploy new features. This information is available in this presentation I give...

Let it be known that I love sticky notes. Probably cliché for a UX designer to say that, but hey, stereotypes exist for a reason. I use sticky notes every day, I use them at work and at home. They’re my go-to tool for taking notes or sketching out quick...

Problem Statement In order to continue delivering quality code and reduce human error in manual testing we want to automate high priority manual tests. Solution Our team is using Cypress to automate high priority manual tests in order to reduce human error and provide testing that would be done manually...