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 In this podcast Charles Humble and Wes Reisz talk about Java 9 and beyond, Kotlin, .NET Core 2, the surge in interest in organisational culture, quantum computing, and more. (Podcast) |
 Charles Humble compiles a list of this year’s most interesting and popular content on InfoQ and chats to QCon chair Wesley Reisz about 2017 and how the next 12 months are shaping up. (Article) |
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 Lovethesales had to classify one million product data from 700 different disparate sources across a large domain. They decided to create a hierarchy of classifiers through utilizing machine learning, specifically Support Vector Machines. They learned that optimising the way in which the svms were connected together yielded vast improvements in the reuse of labeled training data. (Article) |
 Dave Casper talks about how modern data science and algorithms are being applied to "fight machines with machines". (Presentation)
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 Consumer-driven contracts enable our teams at Rightmove to work independently, and be confident that their changes won’t break other services when deploying their own. It also improves communication between teams, and helps to get developers thinking about API design early on. (Article) |
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 Brice McIver explains how to create a Slack bot, developing a JavaScript-based bot and showing how to integrate it into a Slack team. (Presentation) |
 Carmen Andoh provides the historical context around the technical decisions of the Go language to better understand its concurrency primitives, garbage collection, and small standard library. (Presentation)
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 A cloud-native approach improves how companies of all ages and sizes deliver software to customers. Download this eMag to get a deeper understanding of the cloud-native revolution, and see what it takes to jump in. |
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 Enterprises have learned to create software using agile processes, but we are still producing large monolithic beasts of software. If you are not already using Microservices, you are safely out of the early adopter phase of the adoption curve. This article will help you get started creating, discovering, and calling Microservices. (Article) |
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| The new Hybridizer technology provides C# developers with a way to target the CUDA platform and take advantage of GPUs for increased performance. Thanks to Hybridizer, developers are not forced to use C or C++ to write high-performance GPU code. (News) |
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| The W3C released the HTML 5.2 update to the HTML specification as an official recommendation on December 14, 2017. This update adds new features like the dialog element, obsoletes old ones like the HTML plugins system, and integrates work from other W3C committees such as support for the Payments Request API and the Presentation API. (News) |
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| Android developers will have to comply with two new requirements if they want their apps to be available on Google Play in the future. Those include supporting a recent Android version and adding support for 64-bit native code. Additionally, Google will start including some security metadata to improve APK authenticity verification. (News) |
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 Sarah Wells shares the experiences of reaching over 150 microservices in production after starting to build a microservices-based system from scratch only two years go. She shares how her team regained control and offers some tips and tricks. (Presentation)
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 Learn how to develop transactional microservices using aggregate, event sourcing, and CQRS; the benefits of 'modular monoliths'; the evolution of business logic from monoliths through microservices, to functions. Download the eMag. |
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 The book The Corporate Startup by Tendayi Viki, Dan Toma and Esther Gons explores what existing large corporations can do to establish an innovation ecosystem able to continually create new growth avenues. Instead of striving to be a startup, they should find their own way of innovating, use their assets, and learn how to create and use business models that support innovation. (Article) |
 Elise Aplin tells from her experience as a PM, an Agile journey to a successful beta launch, discussing practices used while implementing Objective Key Results and Hypothesis Driven Developments. (Presentation) |
 Estie Boteler and Anthony Boteler discuss what "autism" is, challenging certain views and values towards a person with a disability, suggesting how to support inclusive practices in the workplace. (Presentation) |
 Matthew Philip introduces the service-delivery review as a feedback forum, explaining the basics of how to conduct a service-delivery review and the benefits, as well as typical fitness metrics. (Presentation) |
