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Early in my career, I had the misfortune of doing a lot of Crystal Reports work. Crystal Reports is another ..
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Alice picked up a ticket about a broken date calculation in a React application, and dropped into the code ..
For testing networking systems, load simulators are useful: send a bunch of realistic looking traffic ..
