#development environment

[dimalink]

Different Basic – try different Basic

So, year 2024 – for me, it is a year of Basic. I program only with it. And, mainly, I like a lot Basic. It is a positive. From the childhood days. In childhood, I see Kuvt 2 Msx 2 Basic. I see blue screen QBasic, or Quick Basic 4.5. As it is a childhood memories, so let it be this way. Microsoft Quick Basic 4.5, I am talking about. It was built in MS DOS. It was very comfortable and funny!

And, in 2024, I am, again, with Basic. Now, speaking the true, I am programming with modern dialect -QB64, mainly. Modern version of Basic. It is most common use form of Basic for me. I write with it most of programs. It is modern, it works with modern computers, it is supported by developer. Mainly, it is modern and new version. And, main, – that by it has a special visual side – it is same Basic from MS DOS from the past. Which means so a lot for me. It is, Also, a valuable feature.

And, in 2024 I become more brave. About Basic question. And, start to try different Basics. First of all, those who are actual. So. this means, they work with modern systems, for them they are written. And they are supported by their authors. More or less, they have new versions. I get experience with usage of several Basic dialects. So, this is like some different realization of this programming language, these ideas Basic programming. Experience was even positive!

It is about two dialects of Basic. First - BBC Basic for SDL2. And second – it is Free Basic.

BBC Basic for SDL2

I start from the beginning. BBC Basic for SDL2 – it is a very interesting thing. Hard to say another way. Basics, are, of course, similar to each other. About the level of main ideas. And realization can be very different. So, here are lots of different with QB64. There are enough of different things, I need to say – it is quite different.

Anyway, BBC Basic, as I understand, it takes it`s roots with 8 bit computer BBC Micro or something like that. So, this is about more or less about programming style 80s.

As with some kind of Spectrum. And there are lots of Basic forms. There are – where you need to give a number to every line. So, this means, that every command has its number. Amazing and new experience for me!

And, this Basic form has two interfaces, just from the beginning - two interfaces you have. So, this is about - it has two programs inside of it– you write code and launch, from them.

Its own development environment.  Straight with this Basic itself. Two environments for you selection. You run this Basic and select one environment out of two for your choice.

First environment looks very beautiful. It is very stylish. In dark tones. Beautiful and stylish. Second environment looks like casual window. White background. Casual windows window. As windows 3.11 ort just a windows window. By the way, second one can do exe file.

First environment has a name - Andy Parker`s BBC Edit, second environment - Richard Russell`s SDLIDE. So, BBC Basic - it is something like a program, and you run it and you are being asked – about what ide you will use. Everything goes as one with BBC Basic. Nothing from aside you do not need to install. And this is comfortable! And for novice. And for just to program with basic.

I write code and run it from first environment. And exe I do using second environment. From a good side of this Basic - I say about a good documentation for this Basic. There are lots of information, at website. Even more - it has a very friendly way of reading it. And you can to learn about commands and their features. Documentation is done here very cool! So, I from the first attempt can do get ideas and use it. How to write programs here.

For example, here command for colors writes as COLOUR, instead of casual COLOR.

Or procedure is writing next form

DEF PROCmyprocedure

Procedure code

ENDPROC

And, there are lots of such things! It is retro Basic. It is interesting dialect. Which is rather different from casual and well known QB64 or Free Basic. For those, who have some interest! Very cool thing!

Free Basic

Second Basic. It is Free Basic. I think, it is well known theme. I don know, even, and, maybe, it is true, or not, it is more popular, then a QB64. Cool thing. Some way, it is, rather, close as a result QB64 and Free Basic. But they have a difference too.

Free Basic does not suggest you development environment or text editor. In its standard form. You are using it with some text editor, as a wise man. And, you run with hands. Compile your program with command line. It has interesting feature. I, first here, try code editor GVim. It is first successful expirience of GVim for me. First makefile, most simple one, of course. So, this Basic can be similar to QB64, but, anyway, it makes some surprises! With a positive side. All the time, there is a place for something new, as someone can say!

Here, taking into account, that there are some close points. It is a big value, anyway, tor remember, that QB64 and Free Basic – they are different. To have not be surprised, when you don’t want any unknown things to happen. Each one with its own moments. But, both of them are cool and modern forms of Basic. Which can be recommended for first invitation, well, like this. I am about a programming language itself. Not taking into account development environment.

It is very popular Basic form. It is main. It is very good Basic. Rather close to QB64. It is comfortable! It is first, that you understand, when you use Free Basic for writing programs.

First of all, I write some test program. I show a text at the screen, I draw little squares. Something like graphics. Graph at the column. It works! And, even, without any serious problems! So, this means, that it is a cool Basic. It helps a lot, that it is similar to QB64. More close, than BBC Basic.

But, saying the truth, here you need to use text editor. For yourself. But, it is a good step in self progress. If QB64 suggests, already, a development environment. And, here – it is up to you. So, think about this for yourself. It is cool! Later to learn how to compile. Create make file. It is, also, not so hard here and good for self-progress! Serious thing - this is Free Basic.

You can compile with hands. And you can to make a special little file. So, it has a name -make file. To run everything from it. A required command compilation. For example, for my game Free Block – text for make file is next.

File makefile

all:

                fbc64 FreeBlocker.bas Global.bas Block.bas Player.bas Game.bas Level.bas Gameplay.bas Menu.bas

So, it, already, has a command for compilation. For first invitation in theme of compilation – it is, rather, easy and easy to understand!

And, next, you just write from the console !make

And, in other case, you need to write a long command for compilation, everytime. Interesting new experience! And, it is not so hard! But, of course, it requires some time – to read, to try, to make some experiment.

So, compilation in easy form – looks like, it is not so scary thing. It is, also, easy to see. Name of compile tool, main file and different files, you need and, that`s all. For example, it looks like, this is, I can say, about it, in easy form. It is, also, a little of positive!

It is comfortable to use Free Basic to learn such things. So, we have a combination here, already, a picture of things. Qb64 - it has, already, made for you development environment. Everything out of program is making.  And, later, to have more complex and interesting, when you, already, have experience. It is Free Basic. You select by yourself development environment. You compile by yourself, you make a makefile. Interesting and positive experience.

By the way, I remember a story from school days. Some older school boy once asked someone – “And what? Do you have installed a compile tool?” And, I was a school boy in those days, and, even, do not know about these things. I only played in games. So, this moment is now for me! So, I can say, it is a first step in usage.

With Free Basic it is little difference a way you make a sound. There is nothing like it is in Qb64. In QB64 you, already, have installed functions, and just to give a path to file and play it. With music or sound. With Free Basic it is different. It is example of some difference. There is no some analog of command from Qb64.

With Qb64 you have a easy to use commands for playing sounds and music - _SndPlay, _SndPlaying, for example. With Free Basic you do not have these things. So, some difference things you will see!

So, these are two new for me dialects of Basic, I make a discovery of them! Basic – it is cool! I am so happy, that I can to program with programming language Basic!

iron (hardware) and programs. From time to time i restore computers, retro computers. Try retro soft. Check some programs. And write about all of these. Dima Link is making retro videogames, apps, a little of music, write stories, and some retro more.

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[demigods-posts]

percy doing better than annabeth in college is one my favorite developments in the rrverse. if we reflect on percy and annabeth's academic upbringing. annabeth living at camp allowed her to receive accommodations for her adhd and dyslexia and surround herself with like-minded campers who had the same limitations. whereas percy was ridiculed, belittled, and routinely humiliated because of his adhd and dyslexia. even more so, percy's friends and family leave him out of the loop on so many important issue (no chb orientation film, no information about the great prophecy) which perpetuates his subpar confidence and self-esteem in his skills as a student and a demigod. but going to college at NRU changes his mindset because he receives the accommodations he should have gotten years ago and fucking thrives to the point of getting higher grades than annabeth — a person he deems way smarter and more prepared than him in every way. the most important thing percy is learning now is that a supportive environment makes all the difference, and he is more capable than he initially thought.

[virtualpilotlight]

I'm so glad I'm not living through an extinction event. I'm extra thankful for robust manuals.

All of these stupid ass tutorials are dependant on each other and I can get past any of them without all of them.

I'm like legit confused how I was getting this react.js working at all. I can't find the package.json file in my GitHub anywhere. At this point I'm probably too tired to get this working tonight.

But yay I survived my birthday and the nerve block.

[frog707]

NetBeans 19 first impressions

Today I installed the Apache NetBeans 19 IDE on my Linux Mint desktop. The install went smoothly.

Once I began using 19, I quickly noticed that in Gradle projects the "Run File" command (shortcut: Shift+F6) now executes the "run" task, not "runSingle".

NetBeans's use of "runSingle" was a kludge, but a very convenient kludge. The "run" task isn't always an adequate substitute. For instance, I haven't figured out how to make the "run" task work in projects with a chooser app (such as Heart, Acorus, and Wes).

I still have NetBeans 18 installed. I haven't decided yet whether to stick with 19 or switch back to 18.

[10001gecs]

one 100 word email written with ai costs roughly one bottle of water to produce. the discussion of whether or not using ai for work is lazy becomes a non issue when you understand there is no ethical way to use it regardless of your intentions or your personal capabilities for the task at hand

with all due respect, this isnt true. *training* generative ai takes a ton of power, but actually using it takes about as much energy as a google search (with image generation being slightly more expensive). we can talk about resource costs when averaged over the amount of work that any model does, but its unhelpful to put a smokescreen over that fact. when you approach it like an issue of scale (i.e. "training ai is bad for the environment, we should think better about where we deploy it/boycott it/otherwise organize abt this) it has power as a movement. but otherwise it becomes a personal choice, moralizing "you personally are harming the environment by using chatgpt" which is not really effective messaging. and that in turn drives the sort of "you are stupid/evil for using ai" rhetoric that i hate. my point is not whether or not using ai is immoral (i mean, i dont think it is, but beyond that). its that the most common arguments against it from ostensible progressives end up just being reactionary

i like this quote a little more- its perfectly fine to have reservations about the current state of gen ai, but its not just going to go away.

[wishlings]

Night-time is peaceful in the Wishlings world 🌠

[mariacallous]

What sucks is that the US, due to the Build Back Better Plan (with legislation like the IRA and the IIJA and CHIPS and so forth) actually was re-establishing a really solid manufacturing and industrial sector and creating a lot of opportunities for new jobs to replace outdated industries and professions, particularly in rural and geographically diverse areas...only for it all to become totally fucked by Trump and the GOP and their bullshit.

We had a flourshing domestic manufacturing and industrial sector, in places that often got overlooked by policies and governments. And it's all being slaughtered.

[mollysunder]

Hindsight is 20/20, but I don't think you needed to be psychic to guess that destroying ALL the shimmer supply was a bad idea.

In Act Three it took three whole doctors to save Vi's life after she gets slashed by a Noxian blade across the chest. Yet in s1 it took a single drop of shimmer to save Vi from the deep stab in the gut Sevika gave her without any other form of medical intervention.

There's just a really gross sense of irony that Caitlyn and Piltover at large took away Zaun's main source of medical care (as controversial as it may be), and then put it's people through a meat grinder battle while withholding such care.

It doesn't help that the meat grinder battle was useless ploy for Jayce to get close to Viktor and so a lot of people, specifically Zaunites, died for nothing.

[beffalumps]

scribbled out some camps for my fanclans, NightClan, StreamClan, SunClan & CloudClan

[istar-gzng]

𝐻𝑂𝑊 𝑇𝑂 𝐺𝐿𝑂𝑊 𝑈𝑃- 2𝑁𝐷 𝑄𝑈𝐴𝑅𝑇𝐸𝑅

𝑁𝑜 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑥𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐺𝑒𝑡 𝐼𝑡 𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡��𝑒𝑟.

𝐿𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒. 𝐴 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑤-𝑢𝑝 𝑖𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 ; 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡- 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑, ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ, 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟, 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑡ℎ, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡.

𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑐𝑘.

𝐴𝑃𝑅𝐼𝐿-𝑀𝐴𝑌-𝐽𝑈𝑁𝐸

𝐺𝐸𝑇 𝑆𝐸𝑅𝐼𝑂𝑈𝑆 𝑂𝑅 𝑆𝑇𝐴𝑌 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑆𝐴𝑀𝐸

✰ 𝐶ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒 2 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 (𝑦𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒).

✰ 𝑆𝑒𝑡 3 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ. 𝑁𝑜 𝑣𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑒 "𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑇𝑟𝑦" 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒.

✰ 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 (𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑟 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡!)

✰ 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑢𝑝 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑.

✰ 𝑅𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓- 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝐸𝐴𝑅𝑁 𝑖𝑡

𝑇𝑖𝑝: 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑝, 𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔!

𝐶𝐻𝑂𝑂𝑆𝐸 𝑌𝑂𝑈𝑅 𝐴𝑅𝐸𝐴𝑆 𝑂𝐹 𝐼𝑀𝑃𝑅𝑂𝑉𝐸𝑀𝐸𝑁𝑇

𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒:

𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑎𝑙𝑠 - 𝐿𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑈𝑝 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦

𝑁𝑒𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 - 𝑆𝑒𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑠𝑠.

𝑈𝑝𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 - 𝑇𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑝.

𝐽𝑜𝑏 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ - 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑟 𝑢𝑛ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦, 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑜𝑝𝑝��𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠.

𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 - 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑠.

𝑆𝑒𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘-𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 - 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ.

𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 - 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑔

𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ'𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑠 - 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔.

𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑏𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑡 - 𝑆𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢.

𝑈𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠/𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔.

𝐵𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 - 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑑.

𝐵𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑑.

𝑆𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡.

𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑆𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔! - 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟.

𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑙 𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 - 𝐶𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑢𝑠𝑒.

𝑃𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 - 𝐴𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑠.

𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 - 𝑆𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑟.

𝑃𝑅𝐴𝐶𝑇𝐼𝐶𝐸 𝐺𝑂𝐴𝐿 𝑆𝐸𝑇𝑇𝐼𝑁𝐺 - 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑅𝐼𝐺𝐻𝑇 𝑊𝐴𝑌

𝑆𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑘𝑒𝑦.

✰ 𝑃𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 2 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 - 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓.

✰ 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 - 𝐶ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒 2 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ

✰ 𝑈𝑠𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑟 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠.

✰ 𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 - 𝐶𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑠.

✰ 𝑅𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡!

𝑅𝐸𝑊𝐴𝑅𝐷 𝑌𝑂𝑈𝑅𝑆𝐸𝐿𝐹 𝐵𝐸𝐶𝐴𝑈𝑆𝐸 𝑌𝑂𝑈 𝐷𝐸𝑆𝐸𝑅𝑉𝐸 𝐼𝑇

𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛! 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓:

𝑆𝑝𝑎 𝐷𝑎𝑦 : 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑥, 𝑢𝑛𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒.

𝐷𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 : 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑜 𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑎 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑙.

𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 : 𝐶𝑜𝑧𝑦 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚.

𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑒 : 𝐵𝑢𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒 (𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑡!)

𝐹𝐼𝑁𝐴𝐿 𝑅𝐸𝑀𝐼𝑁𝐷𝐸𝑅

𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛- 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 : 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑠 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.

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Platform Engineering: Streamlining Modern Software Development

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Platform Engineering: Streamlining Modern Software Development

As we accelerate ahead of Industry 4.0, digital transformation reshapes businesses at an unprecedented level.  Today, organizations face high pressures to deliver software faster, more reliably, and at scale.

The growing complexities of the cloud environment and heightened demand for frictionless customer experiences have further complicated software development. Since delivering a seamless customer experience is an organization’s top priority, continuous software development runs parallel with other operations.

Platform engineering has emerged to address these challenges. It is based upon integrating product names as an internal developer’s platform designed to streamline the software development process.

According to a research by Gartner, “45% of large software engineering organizations were already utilizing platform engineering platforms in 2022, and the number is expected to rise by 80% by 2026.”.

This article will explain platform engineering and its benefits and see how it boosts the entire software development cycle.

What is Platform Engineering?

With ever-increasing functionalities, cloud environments are becoming more complex every day. Developing new tools and software isn’t easy now. Sometimes, software development-related complexities, the underlying infrastructure that must be managed, and routine tasks become hard to tackle.

Platform engineering focuses on designing, developing, and optimizing Internal Developers Platforms (IDPs).

IDPs work as an added layer and bridge the gap between developers and underlying infrastructure. Adopting an IDP enables workflow standardizations, self-services in software development, and improved observability in development.

With all these workflow enhancements, developers can work in more automated environments. By enabling automation at every level, the internal data platforms streamline the software development lifecycle (SDCL) while adhering to the governance and compliance standards.

Core Concepts of Platform Engineering

As cloud computing, microservices, and containerization grew, organizations opted for more advanced platforms to manage their complexities. An engineering platform in software development creates a cohesive and efficient development environment that enhances productivity while maintaining operational stability.

Here are some of the core concepts of platform engineering:

1. Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are designed to help organizations optimize their development processes. As development processes become more iterative, cloud complexities become an added burden.

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IDPs act as added layers in the development process, simplifying operations and enabling teams to leverage existing development technologies. It is an ecosystem that empowers developers by providing tools and automation and autonomously managing the end-to-end lifecycle, from development to deployment.

Some of the most demanded IDPs are:

Qovery

Platform.sh

Backstage by Spotify

Humanitec

Coherence

However, if not implemented strategically, IDPs can introduce further complexities downstream.

2. Self-Service

One of platform engineering’s most powerful features is its capability to empower developers through self-service. This means developers can work independently, provision, manage, and deploy applications without relying on operations teams. It empowers the workflow, enabling developers to iterate and deploy efficiently.

3. Workflow Automation

Automation is another reason to adopt an engineering platform.  It automates routine tasks and reduces human error while ensuring scalability and consistency across the development lifecycle.

4. Standardization

Engineering platforms promote end-to-end standardization of best practices across the development workflow. They usually have built-in quality standards to meet compliance requirements. So, both organizations and development teams automatically follow compliance best practices.

5. Security & Governance

As security and governance are core concerns in any SDLC, integrating a robust engineering platform ensures robust governance to minimize vulnerabilities and risks.

6. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Platform engineering enables development teams to provision and manage infrastructure resources in repeatable and automated ways. It also promotes version control for easier management and collaboration and faster time-to-market.

At its core, it manages the development process more efficiently by reducing development complexities and ensuring compliance and quality.

Why is Platform Engineering Important to Adapt?

Platform engineering has gained importance due to the growing complexity of software and cloud-based development environments. Managing multiple development environments, multifaceted cloud environments, and diverse technology loads obstructs developers.

To avoid this, internal development platforms streamline the process by creating scalable, reusable platforms to automate tasks and simplify processes.

An IDP allows developers to stay ahead and be more productive at high-value tasks rather than tackling underlying infrastructure. Moreover, platform engineering enables security measures in the development process, diminishing risks and ensuring compliance.

Benefits of Platform Engineering

Internal development platforms offer several critical benefits that boost the overall software development process.

Accelerates Development Process: The cross-functional and automated collaborative environment leads to faster time-to-market and rationalized development costs.

Improves Developer Experience: Platform engineering offers self-service capabilities, enabling developers to be efficient and creative and focus on innovation instead of infrastructural complexities.

Enhances Scalability: Engineering platforms empower organizations to scale their applications and infrastructure to meet growing demands.

Establishes Governance: Platform engineering promotes governance, which is critical for all industries. It ensures that all activities are compliant and aligned with best practices.

Is Platform Engineering the Future of Software Development?

As businesses transform digitally, platform engineering provides a unified infrastructure to empower the build, test, and deployment processes. Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to more efficient internal platform services in the future.

Moreover, early adoption will provide a competitive advantage for seamless software development workflows.

For more resources on software development, cloud computing, and AI, visit Unite.ai.

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