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How To Build A Custom Text Classification Model With AWS Comprehend | by George Pipis | Apr, 2022 | Level Up Coding
George Pipis - levelup.gitconnected.com
In this tutorial, we will show you how to build a custom text classification model with AWS Comprehend. For this project, we will work with the SMS Spam Collection Dataset obtained by UCI Machine…
3 Ways Crypto Can Help Businesses Thrive | by Pavle Marinkovic | Apr, 2022 | Better Marketing
Pavle Marinkovic - bettermarketing.pub
We feel cinema differently. We cry, laugh, and get scared just from moving pictures on a screen. Our lives are more exciting because of this media. And as in any industry, there’re fierce critics…
Dimensions of Power. “Well I’m a senior engineer so we’ll do… | by Kent Beck | Mar, 2022 | Medium
Kent Beck - medium.com
“Well I’m a senior engineer so we’ll do it my way.” I always hated conversations like that as a junior engineer but they seem to be a natural consequence of titles. Keep titles private and the best…
Verify Project Spotlight
dotnetfoundation.org
This month's .NET Foundation Project Spotlight
GitHub - mantinband/throw: A simple, fluent, extensible, and fully customizable library for throwing exceptions for projects using .NET 6+
github.com
A simple, fluent, extensible, and fully customizable library for throwing exceptions for projects using .NET 6+ - GitHub - mantinband/throw: A simple, fluent, extensible, and fully customizable library for throwing exceptions for projects using .NET 6+

Create SQL Server Database From a Script in Docker-Compose | Abhith Rajan
abhith.net
Run a SQL Server container with database initialized from a script using docker-compose.

Get started with Hashicorp Vault. Hashicorp Vault — I have seen this… | by Phil Xu | Servian
Phil Xu - servian.dev
HashiCorp Vault — This product is currently running in many big enterprise companies. I have seen a lot of people complain about the complexity of it and the pain of setting it up. I think this…

Estimates Are Waste
ardalis.com
Estimates are waste, in that time spent estimating is often time that could have been spent producing something with business value. The first of the 5 laws of software estimates, this one is easy to demonstrate in the context of software developers. However, like so many things in software, it doesn't always hold when that context shifts.

End-to-End Testing Without a UI. Finding appropriate tools for… | by Mannan Mackie | Expedia Group Technology | Feb, 2022 | Medium
Mannan Mackie - medium.com
Coming from a customer facing team that was responsible for over a dozen different applications, our team relied heavily on end-to-end testing to ensure that everything hung together correctly before…
Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.
Kent C. Dodds - kentcdodds.com
Guillermo Rauch tweeted this a while back. Let's take a dive into what it means.