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 In this eMag, we explore the real-world stories of organizations that have adopted some of these new ways of working: sociocracy, Holacracy, teal organizations, self-selection, self-management, and with no managers. (eMag) |
 In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave Snowden at the Agile People conference in Stockholm, Sweden, about the addition of liminal spaces in the Cynefin framework, pre-scrum techniques and the future of agility. (Podcast) |
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 Structured Streaming, introduced with Apache Spark 2.0, delivers a SQL-like interface for streaming data. Redis Streams enables Redis to consume, hold and distribute streaming data between multiple producers and consumers. In this article, author Roshan Kumar walks us through how to process streaming data in real time using Redis and Apache Spark Streaming technologies. (Article) |
 Marios Michailidis shares their approach on automating ML using H2O’s Driverless AI. Driverless AI employs the techniques of expert data scientists in an easy-to-use application that helps scale data science efforts; empowers data scientists to work on projects faster using automation and state-of-the-art computing power from GPUs to accomplish tasks in minutes that used to take months. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Jessica Yung talks about the foundational concepts about neural networks. She highlights key things to pay attention to: learning rates, how to initialize a network, how the networks are constructed and trained, and understanding why these parameters are so important. She ends the talk with practical takeaways used by state-of-the-art models to help us start building neural networks. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Jay Alammar talks about the concept of word embeddings, how they're created, and looks at examples of how these concepts can be carried over to solve problems like content discovery and search ranking in marketplaces and media-consumption services (e.g. movie/music recommendations). (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Lennard Cornelis explains why they chose OpenShift and Docker to connect to the Hadoop environment, and also how to set up a Docker container running a data science model using Hive, Python, and Spark. (Presentation) |
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 In this walkthrough, learn how to perform continuous integration and deployment of Docker containers with no downtime using AWS CodePipeline and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). (Article) |
 Avi Deitcher talks about LinuxKit, its history and purpose, and how it differs radically from the familiar operating system distributions. He delves into LinuxKit's design and architecture and explores how LinuxKit offers new ways of operating, plugging operating systems as first-class citizens directly into deployment pipelines. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Go thru our latest DevOps and Cloud Computing Trends Report to learn everything you need to know about innovator and early adopter technologies in the space. |
 With this eMag, we present you expert security advice on how to effectively integrate security practices and processes in the software delivery lifecycle, so that everyone from development to security and operations understands and contributes to the overall security of the applications and infrastructure. Download Now. | SPONSOR AD  Kubernetes was supposed to address the application resource nightmare, but it hasn’t worked out that way. There's a way to manage the performance of orchestrated, containerized applications but a whole new monitoring attitude is required, and it begins with complete automation. Watch Now. |
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 Applications have been isolated by lots of different means: processes, virtual machines, containers, and new methods are appearing such as SGX and in-process isolates. What is secure? Have Spectre and Meltdown changed the landscape? What should be used? (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Carlos Baquero Moreno discusses migrating from sequential to concurential programming using CRDTs. (Presentation) |
 Viv Richards looks at why to automate tests, the issue with just manually testing, common end to end automation pitfalls, along with an introduction to visual testing. (Presentation) |
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| During the recent Google Cloud Next conference, Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) announced the release of Micronaut 1.1 featuring support for gRPC, GraphQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), RabbitMQ and Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is also a new Bean Introspection API that replaces the JDK Introspector class and new templates for the Micronaut Test project. (News) |
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| jq, the command-line JSON processor, originally written in C, has recently been ported to WebAssembly, and is now available in a browser JavaScript environment. InfoQ talked with Robert Aboukhalil, bioinformatics software engineer at Invitae, about the challenges of porting existing software to WebAssembly and the ensuing benefits for developers. (News) |
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 A service mesh is only meant to be used as infrastructure for communication between services, and developers should not be building any business logic inside the service mesh. Other frameworks and libraries can be used to implement cloud native enterprise application integration patterns. (Article) |
 Comcast has cultivated an Architecture Guild, with the goal of "threading the needle" between obtaining advantageous critical mass around certain common technologies without undermining individual teams' agency. The Architecture Guild is a grass roots framework that has been used to cut across organizational boundaries to identify solid, workable, default recommendations. (Article) |
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 Companies that encourage open and honest feedback do better than companies that do not. Nonetheless, giving feedback is difficult because social and physical pain share some of the same neural circuitry. Hence, feedback can feel physically painful, as Sarah Hagan discusses in her 2018 QCon San Francisco talk . Hagan uses scientific research to demonstrate how to give feedback properly. (Article) |
 The book Elastic Leadership by Roy Osherove shows how teams have a need for different types of leadership depending on the state that they are in and what can be done to grow teams towards true self-organization. It provides values, techniques, and practices that leaders can use in their daily work. (Article) |
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 Agile anti-patterns can disguise themselves as "solutions" or "workarounds". This article discusses the importance of recognising and classifying a new generation of agile anti-pattern with a systems thinking approach. It shows how to create and promote a shared language using value streams as an effective means of creating a systems thinking culture amongst agile teams and the wider business. (Article) |
 Jasper Sonnevelt discusses why Agile transformations stall, start back up and what different parts of the organization listen for and focus on to be able to tailor the message to them. (Presentation) |
 Gitte Klitgaard tells a story of learning, growth, psychological safety, and the importance of feeling included - a story of how to work and how to create a basis for growth. (Presentation) |
 Edward Scotcher leads a discussion with three senior leaders about why they are investing in business agility, what that means, and how they’re making it happen in their own organisations. (Presentation) |
