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 2020 is probably the most extended year we will see in our whole life. A vast number of people have spent the most significant part of the year at home. The remote work moved from “something to be explored” to Teams’ reality around the world. On this eMag, we would like to pack some of the most relevant InfoQ content in 2020. And there is no way to avoid contents about remote activities. (eMag) |
 In this podcast, InfoQ podcast hosts, Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Charles Humble and Daniel Bryant, sit down for the 2020 year in review edition of the podcast. Topics discussed included: the technology industry’s response to the change in working habits; the rise of online events; the future of cloud platforms; remote working and leadership; and the need to be kind to yourself and others. (Podcast) |
 Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Lyssa Adkins, author of the book Coaching Agile Teams, about 21st-century leadership, relationship systems, the role of agile coaching, bringing more women’s voices to the fore and highlighting organisation dysfunctions. (Podcast) |
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| Facebook AI Research published a paper on Recursive Belief-based Learning (ReBeL), their new AI for playing imperfect-information games that can defeat top human players in poker. The algorithm combines reinforcement learning with state-space search and converges to a Nash equilibrium for any two-player zero-sum game. Code for training the algorithm to play Liar's Dice has been open-sourced. (News) |
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 Yury Niño Roa explores how emerging paradigms can use Chaos Engineering to manage the pains in the path toward providing a solution, showing how Chaos Engineering can benefit from AI. (Presentation) |
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| PHP 8 is a major update to PHP that includes a new just in time compiler (JIT) and many new language features. InfoQ has spoken with Sentry principal developer Mark Story to better understand what role PHP and PHP 8 play in today's language landscape. (News) |
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 This includes massive, root-and-branch changes such as Project Valhalla as well as some of the more incremental deliveries coming from Project Amber - such as Records and Sealed Types. (eMag) |
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 Quantum computing can be used to solve large compute problems on small data in areas such as chemistry and materials science. InfoQ interviewed Mariia Mykhailova, a senior software engineer in the Quantum Systems group at Microsoft, to better understand quantum computing, quantum software development, and Microsoft's latest efforts towards this area. (Article) |
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| Micro-frontend extends the concept of Micro-services to the frontend. The goal is to break down large SPA into smaller independent applications that can use different technologies and be developed and managed by separate teams. single-spa is a framework that helps developers achieve that goal by simplifying the composition of multiple front-end applications into a single product. (News) |
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| The new Entity Extraction API, now available in beta, enables analyzing text inside of an app to detect different textual entities such as dates, URLs, payment cards, and so on. Selfie Segmentation aims to make it easier to add effects to pictures. (News) |
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 Challenges of building application-level encryption for software architects. (Article) |
 Tyler Wells shares how Twilio developed a template that enables them to understand their systems better, identify critical metrics to watch, and how to use Chaos Engineering to verify it all. (Presentation) |
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 For organizational agility, we need to improve the system for teams and individuals to thrive, instead of expecting them to change and fix the culture. This article explores some elements from a systemic point of view that are essential to create the right conditions for moving from agile teams towards an agile organization. (Article) |
 Mary Poppendieck covers some of the early principles behind great software engineering that are as true today as they were a half century ago, and some mistakes made that do need to be repeated. (Presentation) |
 Nicky Wrightson talks about why Skyscanner has chosen to ditch non-production environments, how they do this, what they have done to make this working practice possible, how they maintain quality and confidence, and explains when this approach doesn’t work. (Presentation with transcript included)
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