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Building a Data Science Capability, Inside a Self-Driving Uber, Netflix Titus, FoundationDB, GraalVM, Jakarta EE, .NET Core, Node.js 10, Sociocracy 3.0

Announcing QCon New York 2018 workshops!

Python-based AI workflows, Guilding Web Applications in Go, Production-Ready Kubernetes and GitOps are some of the workshops confirmed at QCon New York. Join speakers Daniel Whitenack, David Wells, Tammy Butow, Ray Tsang and register before May 5th to save $500 off your order!
 

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Building a Data Science Capability with Stephane Yee, Matei Zaharia, Sid Anand and Soups Ranjan

In this podcast, recorded live at QCon.ai, QCon chair & community advocate Wes Reisz and InfoQ editor-in-chief Charles Humble chair a panel discussion with Stephane Yee, data scientist at StitchFix, Matel Zaharia, professor of computer science at Stanford and chief scientist at Data Bricks, Sid Anand, chief data engineer at PayPal, and Soups Ranjan, director of data science at CoinBase. (Podcast)

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Chris Matts & Tony Grout on IT Risk Management Framework as a Catalyst for Change

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Tony Grout and Chris Matts about building an IT risk management framework at a large bank and using that as a catalyst for a digital transformation. (Podcast)

Delivering the Power of Data Using Spring Cloud Data Flow and DataStax Enterprise Cassandra NoSQL Database

Gilbert Lau and Wayne Lund talk about using SCDF on PCF for microservice scaling and pipelining data into Cassandra. (Presentation)

TensorFlow: Pushing the ML Boundaries

Magnus Hyttsten talks about how Google uses Machine Learning to address problems that were not solvable a year ago. He looks at some of the latest models they’ve developed and where the opportunities & challenges are. He describes the latest advancements in TensorFlow to deal with model complexity and how developers can get started building complex models today. (Presentation)
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Inside a Self-Driving Uber

Matt Ranney breaks down the software components that come together to make a self-driving Uber drive itself. He talks about how they thoroughly test new software before it is deployed to the fleet. (Presentation)
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AI & Security: Lessons and Challenges

Dawn Song presents recent results in the area of secure deep learning and how deep learning systems could be easily fooled and what we need to do to address the issues. She also talks about how AI and deep learning can help enable new capabilities in security applications: how AI and deep learning can enable better security, and how security can enable better AI. (Presentation)
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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Netflix Open Sources Its Container Management Platform "Titus"

  2. Amazon Launches a New Cloud Security Service: AWS Firewall Manager

Monitoring SRE's Golden Signals

Golden signals are increasingly popular these days due to the rise of SRE. This article outlines what golden signals are, and how to monitor and use them in the context of various common services. (Article)

Testing in the Age of DevOps

Roy Osherove discusses how to approach testing in a DevOps environment. (Presentation)

How to Cloud Ops Like a Boss

The panelists answer the question “What does it take for an Ops team to run a platform that scales with business, is always available, secure, and performing optimally?”. (Presentation)

Beyond Rapid Development: Continuous Operations and Telemetry / Monitoring with MongoDB on PCF

Jason Mimick demos using PCF to deploy geo distributed, horizontally scalable MongoDB Enterprise deployments through a self service model. (Presentation)

Incident Management at Netflix Velocity

Dave Hahn talks about how Netflix engineering teams think about failure, the tools, techniques, and training they use to shorten the inevitable failures of their systems and impacts to their customers. He explains why they believe chaos is their friend, failure is guaranteed, and why Netflix is better off having both. (Presentation)
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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Apple Open Sources FoundationDB

  2. Bank of America - Blockchain Data Storage Patent Released

  3. GitLab Web IDE Goes GA and Open-Source in GitLab 10.7

Digital Transformation in Oil and Gas

The traditional Oil and Gas Industry is being transformed by a new wave of digital disruptive technologies. To remain profitable, oil and gas companies must consider how to gain operational efficiencies through improved use of technology, such as cloud platforms, and process, such as the adoption of agile methodologies. This article explores challenges within implementing these technologies (Article)

Taking Back “Software Engineering”

Dave Farley explores the term "Software Engineering” and how it relates to craftsmanship.(Presentation)
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Develop Your Development Experience

Jessica Kerr talks about the team that is more than the people on it. It's also the tools, the software used and the production app. One can move some of the team's collaboration overhead and mental-model-maintenance work into the automated portion of the team. Instead of onboarding more developers, one should enhance and customize the tools. (Presentation)
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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Oracle Releases GraalVM 1.0, a Polyglot Virtual Machine and Platform

  2. Cloud Native Java Has A New Home: Jakarta EE

  3. Hazelcast Releases Jet 0.6 for Stream and Fast Batch Processing

  4. Eclipse Photon Nears Release

It's a Kind of Magic: under the Covers of Spring Boot

Brian Clozel and Stéphane Nicoll discuss Spring Boot auto-configuration and the conditional configuration model. (Presentation)

Project Reactor: Now and Tomorrow

Stéphane Maldini and Simon Baslé discuss what’s new in Spring Reactor including support for Reactive AOP, Observability, Tracing, Error Strategies for long-running streams, new Netty driver, etc. (Presentation)

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TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 Boasts Improved Networking

Azure and .NET Core Are Beautiful Together

ASP.NET Core provides developers a way to develop modern web applications in the environment of their choosing (Linux, macOSX, and Windows). Microsoft Azure gives developers full power to host those web applications in anything from a full VM to a Docker container to Azure's App Service which simplifies management of the host environment. This lets developers focus on code and not servers. (Article)

TOP Dynamic Languages NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Node.js 10.0 and npm 6 Released with Emphasis on Security

  2. Progress Announces NativeScript 4 Release

  3. Session from Day 2 of VueConf.US

Go beyond Native with Web-Based VR and AR

Kieran Farr discusses how to create compelling and performant VR and AR experiences delivered entirely through the browser, how web-based VR and AR compare to native applications, how a web developer without 3D experience can get started on this seemingly complicated work, and more. (Presentation)
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TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

Securing IoT Devices with Microsoft's Azure Sphere

To improve security of IoT devices, Microsoft announced Azure Sphere, an end-to-end solution for Internet-connected microcontrollers (MCUs). Azure Sphere has a three-layer architecture based on hybrid microcontrollers running a new IoT-optimized Linux kernel and leveraging a cloud-based security service. The first Azure Sphere chip, the MT3620, is developed by MediaTek Inc. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Microservices and Site Reliability Engineering

Guide to Digital Transformation. Define, Price, and Plan a Digital Transformation (Part 1)

Realizing the value of a great digital business vision traditionally required the arduous exercise of building the proper operational, technology, and human capabilities. This article introduces a framework for easily translating a digital business ambition into imaginable digital strategies, that can then be priced and architecturally modeled for impact analysis and economic value creation. (Article)

Microservices Panel

The panelists discuss things like security, service meshes and how to troubleshoot distributed systems, looking forward to see what the next 12 months may hold for microservice architectures. (Presentation)
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Microservices Lessons Learned from a Startup

Susanne Kaiser shares some lessons learned along their microservices journey from a startup perspective - and what they would do differently in hindsight if they could start the journey again. (Presentation)
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What's New in Spring AMQP 2.0

Gary Russell discusses what was new in Spring AMQP 2 including listener container implementation, type-safe RabbitTemplate operations and more. (Presentation)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Measuring Trust and Its Impact on Leadership and Organisational Change

  2. Sustainable Software with Agile

Q&A on the Book Lost and Founder

The book Lost and Founder contains startup stories from Rand Fishkin. In the book he describes the ups and downs from starting and managing a company, and shares the lessons that he learned. InfoQ interviewed him about being transparent, minimum viable products and pivoting, raising capital and funding a tech startup, and asked him what he would do differently when starting another company. (Article)

Q&A on the Book Kanban Maturity Model: Evolving Fit-for-Purpose Organizations

The book Kanban Maturity Model by David Anderson and Teodora Bozheva provides a model that organizations can use to assess their maturity and define a roadmap to improve business agility using Kanban practices and values. It's a body of knowledge for coaches and organizations on sustainable change, cultures of continuous improvement, unity around a shared purpose, and improved business outcome. (Article)

Introduction to Sociocracy 3.0 – Effective Collaboration at Any Scale

Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse explains the basic concepts of Sociocracy 3.0, looking at some patterns regarding co-creation and evolution, meeting practices, and organizational structures. (Presentation)