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Flutter blurs the lines between designer and developer and endorses a new designer developer archetype. Part designer part engineer, part Picasso and part Pascal. With ambitious designs comes the responsibility to make those designs run on the screen without losing frames. While Flutter is performant by design, how much should we really pay attention to performance optimisation? In most cases … we don’t.

To follow up on my previous article, Guide to Testing Automation with Robot Framework, I will go into more detail about the overall process of writing automated Robot Framework test cases and how to track automation in Jira using Xray. Test automation may seem hard, but it gets easier with the right tools and an open and helpful community like the one surrounding Robot Framework. If your team is using Jira, you can easily integrate testing results coming from the CI/CD pipeline.

In today’s enterprise computing landscape, multi-cloud organizations are quickly becoming the norm rather than the exception. By leveraging an API-first strategy with a microservice-based architecture, companies can achieve significant speed to market across multiple clouds. In order to achieve this, container orchestration and a well-designed CI/CD strategy are essential components in this journey.

Development can successfully remove the bottlenecks created by waterfall methodology by improving development productivity through encouraging collaboration,continuous feedback loops, and automating processes. Collaboration. Feedback. Automation. These are the main building blocks of Development operations. However, not all Development implementations are successful. Why? Building blocks are not enough. You need to take these building blocks and design a Development pipeline that suits your needs.

One of the challenges when you’re starting out with Development is getting the lay of the land. There are a lot of tools out there. And when one of the goals of Development is continually improving your processes, it’s important for you to understand how those tools might fit in your infrastructure. At the same time, you want to be efficient. You don’t want to add tools that overlap with one another. Or tools that cost more than other effective alternatives.

If there’s one thing SRE professionals and Development engineers lack, it’s time. After all, engineers need to oversee a variety of processes—like ensuring operational stability, conducting integration testing, and maintaining cybersecurity—to make sure their apps are working optimally. The list goes on and on. With heavy workloads and tight deadlines, there’s little time to waste on software issues stemming from internal collaboration issues.

“Software is eating the world” is no longer a hopeful vision. It’s happening. It’s here. Software is driving the world’s most important technological trends, and 2020 will prove to be an inflection point for several of them. Underlying the rapid pace of software transformation is another trend that has become immensely popular in itself. The rise of continuous delivery has enabled software companies to turn their ideas into reality faster than ever before.