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 The authors discuss how to build intelligent conversational applications and skills using the conversational AI technology and its three components: interaction flow, natural language understanding (NLU) and deployment. (Article) |
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 Mirco Hering explores what is hindering many large, complex enterprise organizations from achieving mature DevOps, providing guidance on how to progress. (Presentation) |
 Laura Nolan talks about Black Swan events - unforeseen, unanticipated, and catastrophic incidents - that may happen in production and can take the system down. She examines some of the strategies that can be employed to discover such possible incidents during canary and how to address them. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Ryan Kitchens describes more rewarding ways to approach incident investigation without overly focusing on failure prevention. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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| Facebook Hydra is a new open-source framework aimed at speeding up the creation of Python applications by simplifying the implementation of common functionality such as command-line argument handling, configuration management, and logging. (News) |
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| In keeping with IBM’s commitment to their four-week release cycle of Open Liberty, version 19.0.0.9 was recently made available. Open Liberty’s ongoing support for MicroProfile includes the new standalone reactive APIs: MicroProfile Reactive Streams Operators (version 19.0.0.4); MicroProfile Context Propagation (version 19.0.0.8); and MicroProfile Reactive Messaging (version 19.0.0.9). (News) |
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 While parts of C# 8 will never be supported in the .NET Framework, the Nullable Reference Types can be turned on if you know the tricks. (Article) |
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| At the end of a two-year development cycle, Node-RED has finally reached version 1.0, bringing plenty of changes. Among the major new features in Node-RED 1.0 are a new asynchronous message passing model, new completion API, and message cloning by default. Additionally, the visual editor got a revamp. (News) |
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 Ramki Ramakrishna discusses using Bayesian optimization of Gaussian processes to optimize the performance of a microservices architecture. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Bernd Rücker goes over the concepts, the advantages, and the pitfalls of event-driven utopia. He shares real-life stories or points to source code examples. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 The book Impact by Paul Gibbons explores how to lead and manage change in the 21st century to support digital transformations while taking the needs of millennials and Gen Z into account. It describes how we can humanize change and use pull models and dialogs to support behavior change. (Article) |
 George Dinwiddie has written a book titled Software Estimation without Guessing: Effective Planning in an Imperfect World. The book discusses different approaches to estimation for software products, the ways they can go wrong and be misused, and when to use them (Article) |
 Although many organizations use Scrum, the majority struggle to grasp both the purpose of Scrum as well as its benefits. They do Zombie Scrum; it looks like Scrum from a distance, but you see that things are amiss when moving closer. This article describes what Zombie Scrum is about and gives you tangible examples of how to recognize, treat and prevent Zombie Scrum by using Liberating Structures. (Article) |
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 Belinda Waldock explores what modern agile culture looks and feels like, and the attitudes, values and beliefs needed to grow and sustain a culture of agility in teams and organizations. (Presentation) |
 Woody Zuill shares the results of one-piece flow to see if it offers a better understanding of Mob Programming and the power of flow. (Presentation) |
 Lorne Kligerman talks about graceful degradation as an engineering goal which can be confidently tested with Chaos Engineering. By purposely causing failure of one service at a time in a controlled environment, one can safely observe the effect on the end user, whether that’s on a laptop browser, a mobile app, or the result of an API call. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Patrick Kua shares lessons learned sowing the seeds and fertilizing an environment to cultivate high performing teams in a hypergrowth environment. He looks at balancing structures to maximise autonomy and alignment, explicits trade-offs in centralized versus decentralized thinking and how they’ve managed to rapidly expand a team and still ship product at a rapid pace. (Presentation with transcript included) |
