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How Much Does Google Play Closed Testing Cost?

Short answer Google Play closed testing costs anywhere from $0 to around $35. Direct outreach, family, and free peer exchange platforms cost nothing in cash but require 10 to 20 hours of manual…

2026-09-28 ·dev.to

What Experience Teaches Engineers to Optimize

When you are early in your career, engineering can look like a very straightforward game. You write code. It works. You feel powerful. And honestly, that phase is fun.

• Experienced engineers prioritize maintainability and adaptability over initial simplicity.
• They consider long-term implications like maintainability, understanding, and production behavior.
• Senior engineers minimize blast radius through feature flags, staged rollouts, and guardrails.

2026-09-28 ·dev.to

GitHub Actions OIDC to AWS: dropping long-lived access keys

Originally published on kuryzhev.cloud If your repository still has AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY sitting in GitHub Actions secrets, you are carrying a liability.

2026-09-28 ·dev.to

The shift from feature ownership to business ownership

There is a moment in every product leader's career where the rules change, and the frustrating part is that nobody tells you it is happening.

2026-09-28 ·dev.to

A Button That Sends Command+Shift+3

My iPad lives on a stand most of the day. Videos, presentations, docs, whatever the work needs. That is fine until I want a capture of whatever is on the screen.

2026-09-28 ·dev.to