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 This eMag explores the topic of observability in-depth, covering the role of the “three pillars of observability” -- monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing -- and relates these topics to designing and operating software systems based around modern architectural styles like microservices and serverless. (eMag) |
 In this week's podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Chris Swan about DevOps and NoOps, and what Swan calls LessOps, what Operations means in a world of Serverless, where he sees Configuration Management, Provisioning, Monitoring and Logging heading. The podcast then wraps up talking about where he sees validating code in a serverless deployment, such as canaries and blue-green deployments. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Wendy Closson about her journey of recovery from contracting a rare, deadly form of cancer to leading to the Optimize You track at QCon New York. (Podcast) |
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 Akshat Vig and Khawaja Shams explore the implementation of Amazon DynamoDB Streams, and argue that understanding ordering, de-duplication and checkpointing are vital for building distributed systems. (Article) |
 Matthew Renze discusses what data science is, why it’s important, and how to prepare for it. He covers IoT, Big Data, ML, and how they are converging to create fully-autonomous intelligent systems. (Presentation) |
 Dominic Price prepares his listeners for the world of 2020, the role that AI, automation and robots will have, and what people should do to stay human and build an environment where they thrive. (Presentation) |
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 Jeff Hammond and Richard Seroter discuss the latest features introduced in PCF 2.0 and the vision for the platform’s future. (Presentation) |
 Peter Blum and Scott Frederick discuss using Pivotal’s CredHum to enhance security within Cloud Foundry and applications through secret management. (Presentation) |
 Angela Chin and David McClure overview PCF’s networking, how it integrates with Eureka and Spring Cloud Services, and run a live demonstration deploying microservices communicating with each other. (Presentation) |
 Cornelia Davis and Fred Melo discuss the role of the container orchestration system in the IT landscape, and how PKS provides enterprise-class Kubernetes services. (Presentation) |
 Matthew Campbell tells the story of introducing DevOps at D2L, covering the tools, tips, techniques, pitfalls and mistakes useful to know when transitioning to a DevOps approach. (Presentation) |
 Cory Watson talks about people, their needs and how to make them awesome. (Presentation)
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| Microsoft's latest preview of Visual Studio 2017, version 15.6, adds several new features for code diagnostics, debugging and source control. Foremost among these is greatly expanded support tags when using Git source control. (News) |
 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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 Roman Elizarov talks about various approaches to asynchronous programming, their evolution, differences and similarities. He discusses the traditional async/await approach that is based on futures/promises and how the Kotlin’s solution that is based on concepts of coroutines and continuations is providing a safer and easier programming model. (Presentation)
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 Marius Pirvu talks about the new advancements in the area of JVM performance using the latest open source JVM technology at Eclipse OpenJ9 running with OpenJDK. He shows us how the view from "the bottom of the stack" can help in finding and fixing stubborn performance problems often missed by high-level performance analysis tools. (Presentation)
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 Learn more about where its different components are in terms of adoption: Java SE Innovation, Java EE Early Majority and Reactive. |
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 Robin Frischmann summarizes both the good and the bad parts as well as the opportunities & future possibilities of CSS in JavaScript. (Presentation) |
 Javier Velasco introduces React Toolbox Core and explains how to create complex reusable React components. (Presentation) |
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 Matthew McNeeney and Sam Gunaratne discuss how to build services that can be deployed once and consumed anywhere with the Open Service Broker API. (Presentation) |
 Pulkit Chandra discusses how to use Pivotal Cloud Cache and its performance under load, demoing a Spring Boot app which uses Spring Data Geode to talk to a Pivotal Cloud Cache cluster. (Presentation) |
 Nora Jones talks about designing microservices for enabling resiliency testing and the moving parts we need to consider when designing them from the get go, and along their lifetime. She shares tips and tricks on how to design microservices for resiliency tests, examples of poorly designed services, and how to ensure pertinent design decisions are in place on a continuous basis. (Presentation)
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 Vinay Chella and Ioannis Papapanagiotou designed a benchmarking system for Netflix's Cloud platform that can mimic the performance of production use cases. They showcase how the deployment, management, and monitoring of multiple instances can be done from a single entry-point (UI). They also show how they integrated a benchmarking tool into their release lifecycle. (Presentation)
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 Michael Bryzek explores what it's like to build quality software with no development, QA or staging environments. He deep dives into "verifying in production" - what it takes to build software that can be tested continuously in production. (Presentation)
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 Learn about pitfalls in adoption and discover best practices from companies that actually implemented them. |
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 The book Leadership Agility by Ron Meyer and Ronald Meijers provides a collection of leadership styles that leaders can use to expand their repertoire and increase their leadership agility. Readers can learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the styles and find out under which circumstances styles can be effective. (Article) |
 When Telenor needed to establish a clearer understanding of how to measure progress for early stage product development, they created a different set of KPIs for early stage products based around learning instead of financials. They studied the product phase gate process used by companies such as Microsoft and IBM to develop one that worked for Telenor to make relevant investments. (Article) |
