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Guidelines for Chaos Engineering, Part 1

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 06 Jul 20
🕹 Technology Chaos Engineering Monitoring Testing Resilience Observability
  1. Chaos testing helps understand how systems react to failure and ensures adequate monitoring for resilience.
  2. The goals of chaos testing include aligning system behavior with expectations and identifying gaps in monitoring and response capabilities.
  3. Performing chaos engineering involves defining steady-state metrics, forming hypotheses, running experiments, and adapting based on findings.

Full-stack overflow

Tribal Knowledge • 0 implied HN points • 02 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Engineering Software Development Team Collaboration Testing
  1. Understanding the full stack is valuable for engineers to make connections between different parts of an application and solve problems more holistically.
  2. Having a breadth of knowledge across the full stack can lead to building higher quality features at a faster pace and creating a better overall system.
  3. Developing a generalist approach with knowledge spanning from CSS to database architecture can benefit software engineering teams, especially in startups with limited budgets.

Quality Engineering Basics: Risk Analysis

QUALITY BOSS • 0 implied HN points • 04 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Software Engineering Testing Risk Analysis Product Development
  1. Risk analysis helps us focus on the most important bugs to fix. Instead of trying to eliminate all bugs, we prioritize those that could hurt the user experience or company revenue.
  2. To assess risk, we look at the impact of a bug and how likely it is to happen. Using a simple scoring system can help us decide which features to test first.
  3. Risk analysis should include checks on security and user experience, not just how well something works. Understanding all risks helps ensure we can test our products effectively.

ChatGPT Clears UPSC Prelims

Sector 6 | The Newsletter of AIM • 0 implied HN points • 11 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Education Innovation Testing Software
  1. The UPSC prelims exam is very challenging, with only about 25% of candidates passing. This makes it one of the toughest exams for civil service positions in India.
  2. When ChatGPT was tested on the UPSC prelims, it only answered 54 out of 100 questions correctly, showing it struggled to do well.
  3. Many students took pride in ChatGPT's failure because it highlighted the tough competition and skill needed to succeed in the UPSC exams.
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Github Action for Unit Testing

Better Engineers • 0 implied HN points • 06 Sep 20
🕹 Technology Software Development Automation Testing CI/CD
  1. GitHub Actions help automate tasks like building, testing, and deploying code. It's a great way to make your workflow easier and more efficient.
  2. Unit testing is important because it checks if individual parts of your code work correctly. Running these tests can help catch bugs early, saving time later on.
  3. You can set up GitHub Actions to prevent merging code if the unit tests fail. This ensures that only tested and working code makes it into your main project.

We Should Test Programs

Something to Consider • 0 implied HN points • 10 Jul 22
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Government Policy Social programs Accountability Testing
  1. We often assume government programs work well without checking. It’s important to test these programs to see if they truly have the intended benefits.
  2. Many times, the results of these tests show that some programs can even make situations worse. For example, some early education programs that seemed good have led to poorer outcomes for kids by third grade.
  3. We should consider making laws that require testing before funding new programs. This way, we can get rid of ones that don't work and focus on what really helps.

The Bell Curve

Books Unbound • 0 implied HN points • 24 Jul 24
🚌 Education Intelligence Testing Social Inequality Cognitive ability Policy Impact
  1. Intelligence testing has a long history and aims to measure cognitive abilities, but it can also reinforce social inequalities. Tests may not show the full picture of a person's skills or potential.
  2. The book suggests that society is increasingly divided by intelligence, with smarter individuals getting the best jobs, which can widen economic gaps. Higher IQ is often linked to better job performance and success.
  3. The authors discuss controversial ideas about race and IQ, which have sparked debate. Many argue that environmental factors, like education quality, play a significant role in shaping intelligence.