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 In this mini-book, the reader will learn about the Apache Spark framework and will develop Spark programs for use cases in big-data analysis. The book covers all the libraries that are part of Spark ecosystem, which includes Spark Core, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, Spark MLlib, and Spark GraphX. (Mini-book) |
 Wes Reisz and Currie discuss issues such as the implications (and responsibilities) of the massive amount of scale we have at our fingertips today, potential effects of GDPR (EU privacy legislation), how accessibility is an example of how we could approach tech ethics in software, and much more. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Harsh Sinha, CTO of TransferWise about deliberately designing organisational culture. (Podcast) |
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 Jared Short dives into why, how, and when to pair Serverless & GraphQL, with takeaways for implementing the first greenfield Serverless GraphQL API or migrating existing APIs. (Presentation)
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 This article aims to provide a broad understanding of security in the Serverless world. We'll consider the ways in which Serverless improves security, the areas where it changes security, and the security concerns it hurts. (Article) |
 Distributing tracing is increasingly seen as an essential component for observing distributed systems and microservice applications. This article provides an introduction to and overview of this technique, and includes: an exploration of Google’s Dapper request tracing paper; the Zipkin and OpenTracing projects, and the new LightStep [x]PM tracing platform. (Article) |
 Mike Benkovich explore the Azure Data Services, explaining the differences between them and showing how to architect an IoT ingestion system in the cloud. (Presentation) |
 Tim Tyler discusses some of the key changes MetLife made to maximize success, from tossing out waterfall, quickly identifying design patterns, rallying around open source, embracing test driven engineering, and literally "going to war" with the Ops teams. He focuses on the key decisions, patterns, cultural, and technical changes they made and that were successful. (Presentation)
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 Neville George discusses the top 10 challenges Comcast has faced and adapted to while working with PCF over the past three years. (Presentation) |
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 Martin Thompson discusses the most relevant laws governing software performance in the context of financial applications. (Presentation) |
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 Michael Minella discusses what’s new in Spring Batch 4 and how to use it in a cloud setting. (Presentation) |
 Presenters discuss the journey to create a service broker, make it consumable as a Tile in PCF, using ECS S3 as object storage. (Presentation) |
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 Sam Basu discusses the status, the evolving direction and the technology stack for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core. (Presentation) |
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 Nik Molnar presents the fundamentals of Progressive Web Apps, and how to turn a standard web app into something that's installable, works offline and engages users via push notifications. (Presentation) |
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| The latest version of Google’s Dart programming language, sporting a strengthened type system, cleaned-up syntax, and an improved toolchain, is being touted by Google as the way to go for Mobile and Web app development, enabling a 2–3x productivity increase. (News) |
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 Presenters talk about using SOLID principles to build an online marketplace, creating a system that is easy to change. (Presentation) |
 Michael Barber shares Synchrony Financial’s journey from a monolith application to microservices, from elaborating on the initial strategy to implementing a solution with Spring and PCF. (Presentation) |
 Randy Shoup discusses managing data in microservices and shares proven patterns and practical advice that has been successful at Google, eBay, and Stitch Fix. (Presentation)
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 Sahar Samiei and Willie Wheeler share Expedia’s resiliency journey, starting with resiliency as an afterthought and progressing toward resiliency as a first-class concern. They talk about the importance of partnering with the teams experiencing operational struggles, and equipping them with the data to make the right investments at the right time. (Presentation)
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 Even with the best of planning for your distributed Agile team, without good leadership in place, all of that planning can come to naught. With that in mind we look at some leadership trends that are relevant to self-organizing distributed Agile teams. Instead of proposing a new "Distributed Agile Leadership Framework", our goal here is to inform you of important and relevant trends. (Article) |
 However tedious, regression testing is a powerful gatekeeper protecting product quality. It is present in any project regardless of the development methodology. But how to organize it well? This calls for a quality regression testing strategy that requires good understanding of all aspects of this testing effort (types, methods and approaches). Find out more in our article. (Article) |
 Ralf Jeffery presents building the simplest version of a product, letting the target audience use it, then enhancing it based on the feedback received. (Presentation) |
 The presenters discuss why Agile failed in their case and the need for a new revolution in software processes and methodology. (Presentation) |
