We have been exploring Wallaroo, a framework that makes it easy to handle streaming data and write event processing applications quickly. Wallaroo’s examples and documentation are excellent. They cover the core concepts well. But their documentation is sparse for certain tools that Wallaroo has developed to make it easy to independently test the developed application. One such example is the […]
Exploring Wallaroo – Giles Sender
Dynamically import Quilt packages
This post is primarily aimed at Quilt users. Read-only section 2 if you were looking for examples of dynamically importing Python modules. In this post, we will show you how to use the same code to interact with two similarly structured but different Quilt Packages. This is particularly useful when you use one Quilt package on your development environment and […]
Parsing Google Calendar events with Python
This post will show you how to use Python to parse Google Calendar events. Google’s API documentation is good but we haven’t found a realistic example anywhere. So we are sharing what we have. In this post, you will learn to look for all-day events with the word ‘PTO’ in the event title. Overview Here are the steps we will […]
Experimenting with team structures at Qxf2
This post will give you an overview of how we think about team structure and job roles at Qxf2. We are fairly certain that current structure of testing teams is not going to help us solve a lot of problems that are coming our way. You can read about the challenges we think are coming our way. Haven’t you […]
An introduction to hiring and onboarding at Qxf2
This post will give you an overview of how we think about hiring, onboarding and the steps we have taken so far. This post is useful if you are looking to setup a team from scratch or are starting a services company. Note: This is a very long article, but you can skip sections that do not interest you and […]
An introduction to training at Qxf2
This post outlines our efforts in building a training program at Qxf2. The training program at Qxf2 We doubt that the current skills of testers will be sufficient in the near future (see The need for change (at Qxf2)). Which means we will need to train (or retrain) people to stay relevant. This post will give you an overview of […]
Qxf2’s Data analytics, Machine Learning and AI roadmap
In this post, we’ll briefly outline how our Data analytics, Machine learning and AI roadmap looks. We’ll also give you a feel for how work proceeded before we had a roadmap and how it has proceeded after we came up with one. Note: We ended up doing a lot more in this area since we have some mathematics expertise (for […]
Qxf2’s Hardware and Robotics roadmap
In this post, we’ll briefly outline how our hardware and robotics roadmap looks. We’ll also give you a feel for how work proceeded before we had a roadmap and how it has proceeded after we came up with one. Why use a roadmap in the first place? The return on investment on R&D is not obvious. Our R&D work, in […]
Qxf2’s DevOps roadmap
In this post, we’ll briefly outline how our DevOps roadmap looks. We’ll also give you a feel for how work proceeded before we had a roadmap and how it has proceeded after we came up with one. Why use a roadmap in the first place? The return on investment on R&D is not obvious. Our R&D work, in the short […]
An introduction to R&D at Qxf2
As a techie, you cannot escape the buzz around IoT, elastic cloud computing, data analytics, machine learning, AI and the like. Most of the deep testing we would like to do in these areas lack easily accessible knowledge sources and definitely lack good tooling. We are sure that larger companies have faced many of these challenges and have arrived at […]