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In this podcast, John DesJardin, chief technology officer at Hazelcast, met with InfoQ podcast co-host Thomas Betts to discuss the idea of continuous intelligence. (Podcast) |
Shane Hastie spoke to Robin Hills about the importance of emotional intelligence in life and at work, building on your strengths rather than focusing on weaknesses, and the value of purpose to enable resilience. (Podcast) |
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Facebook AI Research (FAIR) open-sourced Expire-Span, a deep-learning technique that learns which items in an input sequence should be remembered, reducing the memory and computation requirements for AI. FAIR showed that Transformer models that incorporate Expire-Span can scale to sequences of tens of thousands of items with improved performance compared to previous models. (News) |
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Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of its fully-managed application delivery service, AWS Proton, allowing customers to easily provision, deploy, and monitor the microservices that form the basis of modern container and serverless applications. (News) |
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The Go team has announced fuzzing support is now available for beta testing. The main goal of the project is to create a unified and end-to-end experience for developers and users of the language, including robust module support, integration with the go command, and new compiler instrumentation. (News) |
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Andres Almiray's quest to learn Go led him to discover GoReleaser and its multiple benefits to managing Go projects. Inspired by a conversation with Max Andersen about the manner in which JBang manages releases on multiple platforms, Almiray embarked on a journey to build a flexible release tool for the Java ecosystem. InfoQ spoke to Almiray for a detailed view of JReleaser. (Article) |
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This past week was marked by the release of Project Reunion 0.8 RC, Uno Platform 3.8, JetBrains Rider 2021.2 Early Access, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of June 7th, 2021. (News) |
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The Next.js team recently released Next.js 11. The new version strives to improve actual and perceived performance for developers and end-users (start-up time, third-party scripts loading, image and placeholder loading). Next.js v11 also provides an experimental codemod that migrates a Create React App application to Next.js. (News) |
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At WWDC21 Apple announced new major iterations for its ARKit and RealityKit frameworks to create augmented reality-based apps for iOS. Most significantly, RealityKit 2 will allow developers to easily create 3D models from a collection of pictures, while ARKit 5 expands face tracking and location anchor support. (News) |
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Mind map-driven testing can enable testers to focus on test idea generation, it exposes you to your thinking and enables you to brainstorm and organize your ideas effectively. This article shares ideas and knowledge about mind maps and shows how they can be used as lean documents to plan, organize, record, present, and report on testing. (Article) |
Laura Nolan looks at some real distributed system architectures and examines the tradeoffs made, showing how simple systems can create complex and difficult to understand behaviors. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Ramesh Subramonian shares techniques used to improve the performance of an existing system. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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In this article in a series on how ‘debt’ can be used to guide an agile journey, we will provide two examples of smells that are related to technical debt, explain the symptoms, the impact on the business and in our organization, outline the experiments (countermeasures) that we have introduced in an effort to try to remove the smell, and provide some specific advice for you to be inspired. (Article) |
The culture of an organisation has a direct impact on the performance of the people in it. We have identified six drivers of culture and provide advice on nurturing and improving them. The six drivers are: Perceived Value of People, Perceived Nature of Time, Safety and Security, Navigation by Grownups, The Bond of Collective Confidence, Perceived Value of Excellence and Beneficence. (Article) |
One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD. This article outlines some of the things that actually do work and explains “Samman,” which is a coaching method used with developers. (Article) |
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