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 In June of this year, Consul 1.2 was released. The release expanded Consul’s capability around service segmentation (controlling who and how services connect East and West). On this week’s podcast, Reisz and Hashimoto discuss Consul in detail. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Fred George about the need to solve “fuzzy problems” and approaches to doing so. (Podcast) |
 It’s made out of a number of archetypes: Facilitator, Analyst, Customer, Enabler, Architect, Builder, Communicator, Tester. Read more about the #noproject approach and see if it can give you the competitive advantage you were looking for. |
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 Author Ben Bromhead discusses the latest Kafka best practices for developers to manage the data streaming platform more effectively. Best practices include log configuration, proper hardware usage, Zookeeper configuration, replication factor, and partition count. (Article) |
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 Justin Kitagawa talks about Twilio’s DevOps culture of “You build it, you run it”, and how its internal Platform has evolved to reduce their engineer’s cognitive load by providing a unified self-service, declarative platform to build, deliver, and run the thousands of global microservices that make up Twilio. He discusses the evolution, tenets, and lessons learned of Twilio’s internal Platform. (Presentation)
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 Mobile and web apps are increasingly built on BaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, creating complex systems out of seemingly simple parts, becoming distributed systems engineers. (Presentation)
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 Katrina Owen presents an end-to-end refactoring that demonstrates simple strategies to avoid misadventures. (Presentation)
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 Don Raab and Aditi Mantri explain the approach they have taken in developing Java code Katas, and discuss best practices around them. They walk through a number of examples, including Katas teaching Java 8, 9 and 10 features, Eclipse Collections, and the Java Time library. (Presentation)
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 Bryan Slatner discusses the need to think differently about serverless applications and demonstrates creating and deploying an entire web app without any servers, focusing on AWS and .NET. (Presentation) |
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| Solid is a new decentralized identity platform from WWW Creator Tim Berners-Lee. Solid provides a mechanism for users to own and better control the usage of their data. (News) |
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 Representational State Transfer (REST) has become the de facto standard for communicating between microservices. The author argues that is not a good thing. We need a modern material to replace HTTP for creating modern services. Open source RSocket is designed for services. It is a connection-oriented, message-driven protocol with built-in flow control at the application level. (Article) |
 Michael Slinn explains the point-based scoring system that he uses when writing an assessment report, and how it applies to blockchain-related technology companies. (Presentation) |
 - RSocket, and why REST may not be the best communication standard for microservices
- How to build microservices with Micronaut: a JVM-based framework
- Microservices in a post-Kubernetes era
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 “Perfect is the enemy of good”, so why change something that is working? In this article, based on a true story of agile implementation, you can find answers to the questions: why are managers afraid of letting their waterfall teams become agile? What could your manager’s dilemmas be when working in waterfall environment? So, to change or not to change? (Article) |
 The only way for organizations to be fit for the future is to create the best employee experience by building an organizational culture, in which happiness plays a central part. Employees look for an organization with an appealing purpose, an organization that enables making progress in meaningful work, employs people that they feel connected to and gives space and facilities to have fun together. (Article) |
 James Brett and Marina Chiovetti discuss the human elements that impact a team’s ability to create and respond to disruption using the Human Full Stack model. (Presentation) |
 Mike McGarr talks about the evolution of developer tooling at Netflix, focusing on command line tools they built to address evolving needs around programming languages, containers and more. He shares lessons learned while trying to support diverse programming languages and environments within a centralized team. (Presentation)
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 Casey Watts discusses reframing frustration into accomplishment and having a more happy and productive team using psychological ideas. (Presentation)
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