SPONSOR AD  Although performance and reliability are top priorities, IT Ops teams struggle to keep up with the complexity and scale of modern applications. Enter the rise of the SRE. Download the eBook now to see the top 10 skills and qualities you should expect from an SRE. Download now. |
 Welcome to this AI-themed edition of The Morning Paper Quarterly. We've selected five paper write-ups which first appeared on The Morning Paper blog over the last year. (Emag) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Bernie Maloney of Persistent Systems about servant leadership and bringing out human potential. (Podcast) |
| |
TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES |
-
|
 Biplob Debnath and William Dennis present a solution inspired by the unsupervised machine learning techniques for automatically generating regular expressions (RegEx) rules from a set of logs with no (or minimal) human involvement. They also demo how to integrate the solution with the popular Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana (ELK) stack to analyze logs collected from the real-world applications. (Presentation)
The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
 Be among the first readers to get access to a new, redesigned version of InfoQ. Your feedback will help us make it even better. I want to try it. |
| |
TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES |
-
-
|
| Amazon has announced their AWS Storage Gateway hardware appliance, which provides hybrid storage between on-premises applications and AWS’ storage services. By providing a hardware appliance, Amazon gives a preconfigured solution to cache data locally while synchronizing with the cloud. (News) |
 - The 2018 InfoQ Editors’ Recommended Reading List
- The Benefits, Challenges and Practices of Chaos Engineering
- Serverless Platforms Compared for Performance
- And more...
|
| |
 As part of our core values of sharing knowledge, the InfoQ editor team has listed and commented on their most recent recommended reading. (Article) |
 Rachel Simone Weil discusses the value of the occasional retreat to work on niche, obsolete electronics, sharing her experience hacking decades-old hardware such as the Astrocade and NES. (Presentation) |
 Nathan Sobo covers the foundations of CRDTs, then explores how Github is using them in Eon to synchronize and persist changes to a repository at the granularity of individual keystrokes. (Presentation)
The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
 Katie Cleary describes her experience in applying Property-based Testing to the code in order to exercise functions but also in using it for testing at the integration level. Cleary used both methods as a way to find casting and overflow bugs in PolySync’s Open Source Car Control (OSCC) project. (Presentation)
The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
| |
TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES |
-
-
-
-
-
|
 Learn about the new Java 10 "var" type, and experiment using JShell with this hands-on tutorial on how to reduce boilerplate code using new type inference for local variables. (Article) |
SPONSOR AD  - Build intelligent apps using Java libraries
- Implement easy to complex AI tasks practically
Use code ORIQP09 to get this eBook for $9 only.
Offer valid till Oct 10, 2018. |
| |
| |
 Jeremy Clark discusses what delegates are, detailing Func and Action delegate types, and showing how to use them to make classes more flexible. (Presentation) |
| |
TOP Dynamic Languages NEWS HEADLINES |
-
-
|
 Kevin Cheung presents a practical guide to getting legacy code to work on the web using AutoCAD as the example with the Emscripten compiler and WebAssembly. (Presentation)
The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
| |
TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES |
-
|
| The latest update to Amazon Smart Home Skill API, available as a preview, introduces new capabilities that can be used as building blocks to model device settings or features. Additionally, Smart Home skills have gained greater flexibility by enabling the use of custom intents. (News) |
| |
TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES |
-
-
-
-
|
 Vaughn Vernon has written several books on DDD and reactive messaging patterns, and has found that the nature of distributed systems means you must deal with uncertainty. How to respond to a missing message, or a message that is received twice, should be a business decision, and therefore must be part of the domain model. (Article) |
 Eran Eyal talks about how the advent of blockchain technology promises a new era of more equitably distributed market power, and the top three challenges startups and traditional businesses face when adopting blockchain as their founding infrastructure. He also talks about the challenges of building a visual A.I. for a distributed web. (Presentation)
The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
 Sebastian Eggers discusses Microservice Blueprint, a well-documented and working reference implementation for a Java-based microservice/API development project. (Presentation) |
 Get your monthly guide to all the topics, technologies and techniques that every professional or aspiring software architect needs to know about. Recent topics include serverless, chaos engineering and event-driven design. |
 - Modeling Uncertainty with Reactive DDD
- Design Consideration of Keystone: Netflix’s Real-Time Stream Processing Platform
- Russ Miles: Ignored Architects and Chaos Engineering
- And more...
|
| |
TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES |
-
|
 Autonomy isn't something you can just give to a team, it’s something that teams learn and earn over time. It has to come with accountability to amplify working towards a purpose. At Zalando, creating the right architecture and organizational structure reduced the amount of alignment needed and freed up the energy to be more thorough where alignment is needed. (Article) |
 Toyota Connected uses Scrum combined with the Toyota Production System to deliver Lean Production, enabling teams to deliver rapid PDCA cycles. Scrum of Scrums, Meta Scrum, and the chief product owner, are some of the approaches used to scale Scrum for multiple teams and products. Agility is not the goal. It’s a result, an outcome. (Article) |
 Allan Kelly has recently released two complimentary books which address ways of working in modern digital businesses. “Continuous Digital” addresses the way organisations need to structure themselves when “every business is a digital business”. "Project Myopia" explores more of the underlying theory of #NoProjects and explains why the continuous culture is so important. (Article) |
 Jon Smart discusses the Agile endeavor at Barclay, practicing continuous improvement centered around outcomes and value. (Presentation) |
 Jon Terry discusses some of the difficulties enterprises encounter adopting Agile along with some of the techniques like SAFe, DAD, LeSS, and Spotify. (Presentation) |
 Steve Worswick discusses the design decisions underlying the chatbot Mitsuku that allow her to stay good despite the constant efforts of the ethics hackers that took out Microsoft's Tay. (Presentation) |
