The Honey Badger of Tech Blogs

This is not a honey badger, nor is it a picture of one.

More on that later. 👋I’m Storm — newest member of the Hacker Noon Editorial team. When I’m not editing and curating Only The Very Best™ software development stories for your reading pleasure, I’m a freelance full-stack focused on front-end (oh! Nailed it.). You can find me, follow me, or engage on the HN community-2.it’s.nearly.ready.okay?!, but enough about me.

Let’s have a look at the top five software development stories over the last week:

The Day a Client Helped Us by DoS-ing Our Cloud Service by Zuzana Dankovčíková [6min read] takes us through the handling of a crisis luckily identified after the actions of a single user.

Staging Environments Are Overlooked — Here’s Why They Matter by Jason Skowronski [7min read] highlights (by example) the risks of deploying straight to production, and why taking the time to set up a proper staging env pays off.

Understanding promises in JavaScript by Gokul N K [16min read] focuses on the two key aspects of Promises in JS. Oldie but a goodie.

Digital Transformation for Modern Enterprises Through DevOps — A Complete Guide by Pavan Belagatti [12min read] describes how established companies embraced DevOps and Kubernetes.

Selenium for Test Automation — Yay or Nay? by Renju Jose [6min read] weighs up the pros and cons of Selenium, a tool for automating web apps for testing purposes.

… and ten more great dev reads:

10 good reasons to learn Dart by Nafis Fuad

Steps, Challenges, and Key Metrics when building a Marketplace like Upwork, Etsy, or Airbnb by Dan Fedirko

Boost your Instagram Followers’ Growth Organically by sudhanshu kumar

Getting feedback for real improvement by Rodrigo Juarez

Mueller Report for Nerds! Spark meets NLP with TensorFlow and BERT (Part 1) by Maziyar Panahi

Everything You Need to Know About Blocks in Ruby by Eric Girouard

Weird Programming Languages by dhanushka madushan

How to write good user stories by Vikash Koushik

Build an Ecommerce App with Personalization using Angular and Cosmic JS by Diego Perez

Building a web app in Python to visualise Google My Business Discovery data by Emmanuel Sibanda

And last but not least do not forget:

JavaScript is the Honey Badger of Languages by John Charles McLaughlin

… which brings me back to the subject. Hacker Noon is written by you, for you. Do you work in development? Blockchain? Technology (who doesn’t)? Perhaps you have some opinion to share about tech in general. Hacker Noon doesn’t care. If it’s tech — we’ll take it. We want to hear from you, so send us your articles!

See you in the community,

Storm Farrell (aka Coder Noon)