Scrum vs Extreme Programming! Let’s see the difference!

Ayush MishraOctober 16, 2018October 16, 2018Agile, Extreme Programming, Scala, Scrum

In my previous blog “A quick overview of Scrum and Extreme Programming for the beginners“, I gave a brief introduction on Scrum and Extreme Programming. If we talk about similarities and differences between Scrum and XP, in some ways they are same and yet in some ways they are different. Scrum and Extreme programming, both are referred as “Agile Methodologies”, used in software development to Continue Reading

A quick overview of Scrum and Extreme Programming for the beginners

Ayush MishraOctober 9, 2018Agile, Extreme Programming, Project Management, Scala, Scrum, XP

If you are working on an agile based project, you would hear some terms like “Scrum” and “Extreme Programming“. And then some questions arises in your mind such that how these terms are related to “Agile“, are they similar or is there any difference between them as both of them being the most important methodologies of Agile? Should I use XP or scrum? etc. I will try Continue Reading

SCRUMming :Photosynthesis of SCRUM Teams

Jatin DhawanAugust 16, 2018August 17, 2018Agile, x

Photosynthesis is one of nature’s most sustainable production lines, the minuscule sugar/glucose Factory, by utilizing the energy of the Sun along with inputs of water and carbon dioxide Similarly doing SCRUM act as “working software” factories, with well defined/refined Product Backlog(derived from Vision/Strategies), along with right Agile cultural mindset and Enablers(Practices/Tools) Carbon is the chemical backbone of Photosynthesis, like Culture for SCRUM And Team gets Continue Reading

Simple steps to make Agile Retrospective fun and effective

Ayush MishraAugust 10, 2018Agile, Scala, Tech Blogs

Before explaining sprint retrospective, I am assuming that you have a fairly good knowledge of Agile practice management. This blog doesn’t cover Agile basics. This blog is for anyone who wants to be successful in running an Agile Retrospective The sprint retrospective is just for scrum team and gives the team an opportunity at the end of the sprint to take a look back at Continue Reading

We do continous retro, do you?

Pranjut GogoiMay 26, 2018May 26, 2018Agile, ScalaAgile, Continuous Retrospective, retrospective, Scrum

If you are reading this blog right now you are already following scrum or trying to follow Scrum. Well, scrum has a lot of good practices which can surely make your project a success. Following it right is what most people get stuck on. One of its ceremonies is called retrospective which is quite important, inevitable in fact, but still many don’t do it. Leaving Continue Reading

What to do for overriding the PureConfig behavior in Scala ?

Rishi KhandelwalJune 15, 2017July 25, 2018Agile, Big Data and Fast Data, Reactive Application, Scala

PureConfig has its own predefined behavior for reading and writing to the configuration files, but sometimes we got the tricky requirement in which we need some specific behavior; for example to read the config. It is possible to override the behavior of PureConfig for a certain type by implementing another instance of ConfigReader, ConfigWriter or ConfigConvert. So in this blog we will discuss all 3 Continue Reading

Apache Spark : Spark Union adds up the partition of input RDDs

Rishi KhandelwalApril 1, 2017July 25, 2018Agile, Apache Spark, Big Data and Fast Data, Scala

Some days back when I was doing union of 2 pair rdds, I found the strange behavior for the number of partitions. The output RDD got different number of partition than input Rdd. For ex: suppose rdd1 and rdd2, each have 2 no of partitions and after union of these rdds I was expecting same no of partitions for output RDD, but the output RDD got the Continue Reading

Creating a DSL (Domain Specific Language) using ANTLR ( Part-II) : Writing the Grammar file.

May 4, 2016May 4, 2016Agile, Scalaantlr, Clean code, compiler, domain, domain specific language, dsl, grammar, lexer, parser, scala, visitor

Earlier we discussed in our blog how to configure the ANTLR plugin for the intellij for getting started with our language. In this post we will discuss the basics of the ANTLR and exactly how can we get started with our main goal. What is the lexer, parser and what are their roles and many other things. So lets get started, Antlr stands for ANother Continue Reading

Simple steps to ease your programming life and deliver good quality software in an extreme way

Ayush MishraJanuary 18, 2016July 19, 2018Agile, Newsextreme programming

Most of the programmers are struggling today with their programming life because of unbalanced working hours, increasing number of defects, late deployment etc., which impact most of the things including quality and delivery of software, personal life etc. I was reading “extreme programming explained embrace change” by Kent Beck. I found this book to be very helpful to ease our stressful programming life, to deliver Continue Reading

Fundamentals of eXtreme Programming

Himanshu GuptaJanuary 11, 2016August 14, 2018AgileAgile, Best Practices, knolx

The term Extreme Programming (XP) was coined by Kent Beck, in late 1990s. The purpose behind inventing XP was to find a way to deliver high quality software, developed by small teams, and to keep up with the changing requirements of customer. Although, XP is more than a decade old now, it is still being practiced by a lot of developers around the world. The following slide deck and Continue Reading

Git Flow – An Introduction

September 11, 2015Agile, Architecture, github, TutorialAgile, git, git-flow, github, knolx

Hi Folks, Knoldus have organized an one hour session on 19th Aug 2015 at 5:00 PM. Topic is Introduction to Git-Flow. So many people have joined and enjoyed the session. I am going to share that slide here. Please let me know if you have any question related to linked slide.

Gnip using Spark Streaming :- An Apache Spark Utility to pull Tweets from Gnip in realtime

Himanshu GuptaJune 29, 2015August 14, 2018Agile, Scala, SparkApache Spark, Big Data, Gnip, Gnip Powertrack, scala, Spark, Spark Streaming

We all are familiar with Gnip, Inc. which provides data from dozens of social media websites via a single API. It is also known as the Grand Central Station for social media web. One of its popular API is PowerTrack which provides Tweets from Twitter in realtime along with the ability to filter Twitter’s full firehose, giving its customers only what they are interested in. This Continue Reading

Scala in Business | Knoldus Newsletter – April 2015

Rishi KhandelwalApril 27, 2015July 25, 2018Agile, Akka, Amazon EC2, Cloud, Java, JavaScript, LiftWeb, MongoDB, Play Framework, Scala, Slick, Spark, Web

Hello Folks We are back again with April 2015, Newsletter. Here is this Scala in Business | Knoldus Newsletter – April 2015 In this newsletter, you will get the business related news for Scala. How organisation are adopting Scala for their business, how Scala related technologies increasing the performance of application and how Scala is getting popular in the industry So, if you haven’t subscribed to Continue Reading

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