 An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the "cloud" and "DevOps" topics evolving in 2019, which focuses on platforms and practices that are being de facto standards and emerging technologies. (Trends Report) |
 On the podcast today, Wez Reisz and Grady Booch discuss what today’s reality is for AI. Booch answers questions like what does an AI mean to the practice of writing software, and how it seems to impact delivering software. In addition, Booch talks about AI surges (and winters) over the years, the importance of ethics in software, and host of other related questions. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference, Shane Hastie spoke to Anna Obukhova about the neuroscience and biology of leadership and what it takes to coach and work with tired teams. (Podcast) |
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 Alexander Wolf introduces Attention, an interpretable type of neural network layer that is loosely based on attention in human, explaining why and how it has been utilized to revolutionize NLP. (Presentation) |
 Joy Gao talks about how database streaming is essential to WePay's infrastructure and the many functions that database streaming serves. She provides information on how the database streaming infrastructure was created & managed so that others can leverage their work to develop their own database streaming solutions. She goes over challenges faced with streaming peer-to-peer distributed databases. (Presentation with transcript included)
The next QCon is QCon London, March 4-6, 2019. Join us! |
 Sugu Sougoumarane gives an overview of the salient features of Vitess, and at the end, covers some advanced features with a demo. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Join Nooxit’s Data Scientist Jendrik Jördening, Quant University’s Chief Data Scientist and CEO Sri Krishnamurthy, Confluent’s Senior Director Tim Berlung and Linkedin’s Engineering Manager Hien Luu. Find out more about the workshops! |
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 Larry Maccherone introduces the DevSecOps manifesto and provides a process model to accomplish the necessary mindset shift and achieve effective DevSecOps culture transformation. (Presentation) |
 Peter Blum and Eugene Kiselev discuss using CredHub to store sensitive data in Kubernetes clusters on PCF. (Presentation) |
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At BlueHat IL 2019, Microsoft engineer Matt Miller described how the software vulnerability landscape has evolved over the last 20+ years and the approach Microsoft has been taking to mitigate threats. Interestingly, among the major culprits of security bugs, says Miller, are memory safety issues, which account for 70% of total security bugs Microsoft has patched. (News) |
 We take a look back at the QCon highlights in 2018, including QCon London, QCon.AI, QCon New York and QCon San Francisco. (eMag) |
 Compiled by Nora Jones from Netflix, this eMag draws on real-world experiences of running chaos experiments, a discipline that allows engineers to refine, recalibrate, and navigate the understanding of our systems through intentional and careful experimentation in the form of failure injection. Download Now. |
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The MicroProfile community has recently launched a beta release of MicroProfile Starter, a website that allows you to create, configure and download a new automatically generated project. Users can specify the project's coordinates (groupId and artifactId), which version of MicroProfile they'd like to use, their MicroProfile server, and a number of other project configuration options. (News) |
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 Ed Charbeneau explores what Blazor means for web development and talks about how this experiment at Microsoft is shaping up. (Presentation) |
 Explore the benefits of .NET Core and how it can benefit not only traditional .NET developers but all technologists that need to bring robust, performant and economical solutions to the market. Download Now. |
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At the end of January, Dojo, a progressive framework from modern web applications, released Dojo 5. Dojo 5 brings a significant amount of bug fixes and improvements in features and tooling. This iteration aims to enable developers to ship faster a smaller and more robust code base to more browsers. (News) |
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 Jimmy Bogard looks at strategies to break a monolith, from the front-end to the back, including database refactoring and analysis tools to see dependencies in legacy code. (Presentation) |
 Dave Bartoletti, Brad Schaefbauer and Enes Yildirim discuss how they created a platform at Boeing on which 700 apps were developed and deployed in two years. (Presentation) |
 Nandini Agarwal and Malini Bhattacharjee share some of the Do’s and Don’ts from their experiences working on the cloud native transformation of Dell.com using Spring Boot, REST, and microservices on PCF. (Presentation) |
 Monal Daxini presents a blueprint for streaming data architectures and a review of desirable features of a streaming engine. He also talks about streaming application patterns and anti-patterns, and use cases and concrete examples using Apache Flink. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report has been published by Scrum.org and Age of Product. The report explores salary trends, agile adoption patterns, and gender equality within the Scrum master role, based on the responses from over 2100 participants across 13 countries. (Article) |
 Blockchain is, for many people, still synonymous with cryptocurrencies and financial applications, but it has enormous potential as a tool for the common good. This article explores whether blockchain could help good causes and discusses whether the lessons from ethics could benefit the blockchain community. (Article) |
 Yuichiro Sano discusses lessons learned and cultural changes switching to PCF for Yahoo! Japan. (Presentation) |
 Nikola Bogdanov discusses the evolution of the interaction and adaptation of communication and the organizational agility in companies developing microservices. (Presentation) |
 The panelists discuss the changes society has seen since the advent of social media and how they're building the next generation of software tools to protect against online harassment. (Presentation with transcript included) |
