Sarah Dutkiewicz
Senior Trainer
Sarah – who goes by “sadukie” in the tech community – is a platform-agnostic technologist known for helping developers understand user experience and on-boarding developers into new technologies in a short period of time. From waterfall development to Agile development, Sarah has experience in working in both environments and transitioning teams from waterfall into Agile. She has also worked with fellow developers in introducing ATDD skills to the non-technical folks – including requirements gathering in gherkin for business analysts and explaining Agile concepts to non-technical teams.
Sadukie also helps with promoting communities, engaging over social media, and helping non-technical teams understand how to work with their technical counterparts. She is a native Clevelander and uses her local knowledge to help connect people – technical and non-technical – for common good.
Sarah holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science & Engineering Technology from the University of Toledo. Sarah is a Microsoft MVP, published technical author, podcast/live coding guest, conference organizer, speaker, community advocate, software developer, wife, and mom.
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October 30, 2024In our webinar on “Common Antipatterns and Refactorings”, I mentioned loops could sometimes be seen as antipatterns. Some people were concerned because loops…
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September 23, 2024In the last dev containers post, I mentioned that one of the painful things I have to deal with is maintaining Gatsby sites. The real pain comes from at least…
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September 19, 2024Picture this - you’re a consultant who happens to be working on projects in different versions of Node.js. Or maybe you’re a consultant who happens to be…
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August 23, 2024Last week, while I was at the dev up conference in St. Louis, I caught Kevin Johnson’s presentation called “Rising from the Ashes: Reimagining Information…
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July 16, 2024We are thrilled to announce the early access launch of our highly anticipated Clean Architecture course! This course is designed specifically for software…
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June 24, 2024As I prepare to deliver a mentoring talk, I think about the various “-ships” that help move careers forward. In this post, we’ll look at some avenues for career…
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June 13, 2024Have you ever had a moment where you need to make the same edits to multiple lines in a file? Maybe you have a list that needs bullets added at the beginning…
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June 06, 2024In our recent webinar, we talked about architectural katas. We explained what they are, how they can be used, and a few different approaches to how others use…
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June 05, 2024I have a few Gatsby sites that I contribute to for work. The frontmatter boilerplate has been a thorn in my side, and I figured there has to be better. For…
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May 31, 2024Our previous post on sharing authentication in Playwright tests covered cookies and local storage. However, you might find that your single sign-on (SSO…
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May 16, 2024Fitness tests, also known as architectural fitness functions, are like checkups for your software’s design. They assess how well your architecture meets…
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May 10, 2024Every architecture decision involves trade-offs. When you’re making decisions, you have to weigh which characteristics may benefit and which characteristics may…
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May 02, 2024If you are currently trying to test pages behind authentication while using Playwright for .NET, you’re in the right place! This post stems from inner…
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April 22, 2024Every now and then, my clients will ask for my availability so that they can book time with me. As I have a Google calendar, I wanted to see if there were any…
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April 10, 2024We are excited to share news about some of our teammates - Eric Fleming and Kyle McMaster have earned the credential of Particular Software Recognized…
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April 09, 2024In my last post, I wrote about wanting to run my web projects and tests in one terminal window and how I achieved it using DotnetBackground. We received this…
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April 05, 2024Picture this - you’re working on a .NET website and want to run front-end tests against that site. What happens when you want to run tests against the sites…
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March 28, 2024We can’t stress the importance of documentation in software architecture. The decisions that you make today will impact the project now and may lose context and…
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February 14, 2024After seeing Steve pairing with ChatGPT, I’ve been pairing with my friends ChatGPT and Bard Gemini to help me get past writer’s block. This morning, I prompted…
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January 29, 2024In our last post, Scott talked about code katas as a tool for learning a language. Today, I’m going to introduce you to another type of kata! At CodeMash 202…
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January 03, 2024Are you going to be at CodeMash next week? We will be there! If you’re looking to catch up with us, we’ll be around all week. NimblePros has: 1 sponsorship…
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December 24, 2023Festive Tech Calendar 2023 - Twas the Night Before Christmas This blog post is going to explore the events that happen in A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement…
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October 27, 2023This article is part of a series on leveling up your testing skills Creating Test Objects via Design Patterns Supercharging Your Test Data With AutoFixture…
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October 23, 2023My talk “From Legacy Monoliths to Microservices via EventStorming” debuted last week at Momentum Developer Conference. This is one of many things I have been…
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October 03, 2023It’s October, which means - it’s Hacktoberfest time! I’ve been working with Steve to see what’s in store with some of the open source projects. Let’s talk…
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September 26, 2023In May 2023, we launched our free monthly webinars. These are 1-hour long webinars that are on topics we like to work with - such as software architecture…
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September 22, 2023Last month, while learning more about the Domain-Driven Design (DDD) community, I saw a post for the [Virtual open Space] Systems Thinking and Skillful…
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September 20, 2023Have you ever been on a company project where you had a lot of questions because you felt like there were a lot of unknowns? Have you been stuck in the game of…
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September 06, 2023With social media platforms evolving, communities are moving on to other platforms. How do you find your community when the social media platforms start…
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August 17, 2023As you move from Moq to NSubstitute, you may wonder how they differ code-wise. In a recent lunch-n-learn discussion, Scott DePouw walked us through how the code…
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July 10, 2023We help some of our clients with migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core apps. The .NET Upgrade Assistant can assist in the transition. One of the approaches…
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June 09, 2023Have you checked in code that’s misaligned and not formatted cleanly? Have you checked in code with broken tests? What if there was a way that you could have a…
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June 07, 2023Have you ever looked at code and felt overwhelmed by the inconsistencies in curly brace placement? Have you felt exhausted trying to follow the inconsistent…
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May 09, 2023There are projects that developers have nicknamed “Frankenstein” or “a monster”. These nicknames are applied to software applications that are hard to maintain…
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May 02, 2023Note: This post is part of the SciFiDevCon 2023: May the Fourth Be With You event. Ardalis and Sadukie happen to be a part of the Stir Trek planning committee…
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April 14, 2023If you are wanting to work with EF Core with Postgres, you may run into a problem where the casing of your tables may cause issues for running SQL queries…
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April 07, 2023This post is a response to Lætitia Avrot’s triggering prompt for PGSQL Phriday #007. PostgreSQL is one of the many database technologies we encounter on our…
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March 31, 2023As March comes to an end, I wanted to feature someone in honor of Women’s History Month, one of the women behind the L of SOLID principles. Dr. Barbara Liskov…
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March 16, 2023Naming things is hard, especially if there are multiple words that make up that name. Remembering names of naming conventions can also be hard. However…
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March 01, 2023While I was looking at the Ardalis.GuardClauses repo, I noticed that the build process was failing. Talking with Steve, I noticed that the build was failing on…
