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 In this thoughtful exploration on the future of work, the authors explore the past, present and future of the “project”. And why, in today’s fast changing & hyper-competitive world, running a temporary endeavour is the wrong approach to building sustainable products and how #noprojects is fundamentally changing the way companies work. (Mini-book) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Edith Harbaugh of Launch Darkly on the way she and her cofounder have deliberately engineered their organisation’s culture. (Podcast) |
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 Ashok Balasubramanian discusses how Syntel’s automation powered approach helps enterprises adopt cloud, including one case of adoption of Pivotal. (Presentation) |
 Rachid Zarouali discusses their adoption of Docker, the tooling used, and how it helped them in their development and ops work. (Presentation) |
 Ken Mugrage argues that CD is done when code is deployed in production, providing code management strategies, deployment patterns, and types of CD pipelines. (Presentation) |
 Phil Estes talks about CRI implementations, and gives a hands-on demonstration of how Kubernetes, the CRI, and CRI-supporting runtimes work together to handle the container lifecycle within their K8s pods. He digs into the useful capabilities of the CRI and how to understand the inner workings between Kubernetes and the CRI container runtimes that support it. (Presentation)
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 Mohit Gupta shares Clever’s learnings on how to build developer control planes to allow our infrastructure team to make changes without disrupting engineers. (Presentation)
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 Brian Chambers and Caleb Hurd share how Chick-fil-A manages connections and deployments using two to-be-announced open source projects. They explain how they obtain operational visibility to their services, including logging, monitoring, and tracing. They also share early lessons and battle stories learned from running Kubernetes at the Edge. (Presentation)
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 Claudia Doppioslash and Adam Lindberg introduce GRiSP, a home automation project written in Erlang and JavaScript/D3. (Presentation) |
 Mary Sheeran discusses higher order functions, taking a look at their history and their algebra, showing some examples capturing patterns in hardware description and GPU programming. (Presentation) |
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 Oracle has released Graal, which is both a new JIT compiler for Java and a major component in their next-generation polyglot virtual machine, GraalVM. The effort aims to improve startup time and reduce footprint of Java applications as well as unlock fully polyglot, multi-language technologies within a single VM. The initial release includes JVM and JS with LLVM, Ruby and R in beta. (Article) |
 Joshua Bloch covers some highlights from the third edition of “Effective Java”, concentrating on streams and lambdas. The recently released edition of Effective Java contains one new chapter, fourteen new items, and numerous changes to existing items. (Presentation)
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 Jeanne Boyarsky reviews code examples of the new features in Java 11, and also features of Java 10. She also discusses the impact of the new Java release train on production code. (Presentation)
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 A major area where security is often lax is the web.config file. Usually stored in plain text, an intruder who gains access to this file can then easily access databases and other resources both internal and external. With this technique, secrets in your web.config can be encrypted using the Windows certificate store (Article) |
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| Netflix recently announced the release of Polly.JS, an open source library for recording, replaying and stubbing HTTP interactions. (News) |
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 Predictive maintenance is not new, but today more than ever, with advancements in industrial Internet of things (IIoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), predictive maintenance can result in significant savings for manufacturers. (Article) |
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 An API Gateway is a layer in an architecture pattern that allows the business API to focus on the business functionality while taking care of the request dispatching, policy enforcement, protocol translations and analytics. This article is about how we built an API Gateway in Ballerina for the WSO2 API Manager. (Article) |
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 We try our best to measure our performance, and along the way identify just the right OKRs and KPIs and ABCs. There’s no One True Metric That Matters, but there are some useful guidelines and some all-too-commonly made mistakes. Use measures that focus on outcomes, not output, and measures that optimize for global or team outcomes, not local or individual outcomes. (Article) |
 The Book Testing in the Digital Age by Tom van de Ven, Rik Marselis, and Humayun Shaukat, explains the impact that developments like robotics, artificial intelligence, internet of things, and big data are having in testing. It explores the challenges and possibilities that the digital age brings us when it comes to testing software systems. (Article) |
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 Matt Philip introduces the service-delivery review as a forum for feedback, its benefits, how to conduct one and typical fitness metrics. (Presentation) |
 Dan Brown discusses how to forecast a delivery with a spreadsheet fairly accurately, quickly and simply, and without any need for estimation of work items or user stories. (Presentation) |
