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n this installment of our community speaker series, we talked to Marg Reffell about her experience starting a web development agency and then evolving it over the course of time. Included in this is how she arrived at a decision to scale in the first place, and how she eventually decided to scale back a bit to make sure it continued to be the business that she wanted to run. To find out more about Marg:

This week's picks:

Top 5 Container Metrics

How to buy a wildcard SSL certificate like grumpy old men

What is BDD (Behavior-Driven Development)?

The importance of software portability

In sales lingo, "win rate" is the percentage of prospects you talk to that eventually become customers? How can freelancers improve the rate at which they close business so that their time doing sales is more efficient? Join us to learn more.

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This Week's Picks:

What makes a good Test Data Manager?

The Agile Release Train Explained

Automated testing tools

Create and manage an AWS ECS cluster with Terraform

When you're first starting out and building your website, how should you position yourself? Specifically, should you talk about yourself as "I" or should you talk about yourself as "we," the way an agency or larger business might? I definitely have an opinion on this one.

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This Week's Picks:

Sand Castles and DevOps at Scale

Measuring Web Performance in 2023: The Definitive Guide

Web Stress Testing All of Your Web & Mobile Applications

In this installment of our community guest speaker series, we talked to Swizec Teller about balancing serious side hustles with full time employment. He has balanced a career working for startups in Silicon Valley with building info products and businesses on the side.

To find out more about Swiz:

• Check out his latest project, defining the senior mindset for software engineers, to help get you ahead in your career: https://seniormindset.com/

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This Week's Picks:

Check out this useful developer’s guide to containers

Check out this great post on enterprise configuration management

This Tricentis page on test management software

This handy guide on lcp metric

This great guide on bpr meaning, steps, and examples

This interesting page on codeless mobile testing

Not all clients are created equal. Many are great, but some you'd rather avoid. How do you tell the difference ahead of time, in order to avoid the headache of having nightmare clients?

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This Week's Picks:

This easy to digest post on event-driven architecture

Check out Enov8's Top 10 Cloud Optimization Tricks

This handy guide on quic HTTP/3

This great post on software testing application

This handy guide on Slack auto reply

If you're used to salaried employment, especially in the US, you're used to having a lot of stuff taken care of for you when it comes to benefits. Medical, dental, vision insurance covered and mostly paid for, retirement savings, and more. But what do you do when you go freelance and this goes away?

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This Week's Picks

This handy guide will get you up and running with Django using Kubernetes.

This useful guide to healthcare data compliance

This episode of the Request Metrics podcast on tweaking systemd services with Ansible is super useful for setting up systemd service environments

This guide to QA testing tools

This great post on SOC 2 Trust Services Principles

Check out this page by Tricentis on End-to-end mobile testing

I get a lot of questions about freelancing, but this is both one of the most interesting that I get and the least-asked. When should you quit freelancing? People set out with nothing but plans for success, so the "when do I do something else" is infrequently considered until things are ugly. I'll walk through how to assess what you should do when things are ugly, but also encourage you to have a quitting scenario from the outset.

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• The blog post about freelancers and profit: https://daedtech.com/freelancers-arent-yet-business-owners/

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• Jira Ticketing System: An Introductory Guide

Invoicing Basics for New Freelancers

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This Week's Picks

• Deploy a Django app with Kubernetes in 20 minutes

In this installment of our community guest speaker series, we talked to Cory Koehler about how he went from being an employee to running a collective of application development freelancers. A lot of folks in our community are interested in exploring models like this, so tune in to hear about Cory's journey.

You can find out more about Cory: * Reaching out to him through LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-koehler/

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• Master Terraform: A cheat sheet for infrastructure automation

Subcontracting? Bringing on a VA or a bookkeeper? As a freelancer, when does the time come to start hiring people to do other things? Join us to learn more.

• This Appium tutorial that explains how Appium helps with cross-platform mobile testing, and how to get started with it