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Data Science and COVID-19, Cortex v1.0, DNSSEC, Java's Missing Features, Xamarin, ES2020 Features, Uber's Feature Flags, Streaming a Million Likes, Strong Engineering Culture

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Read the latest Javascripts and Web Dev Trends report by InfoQ, where the editorial team, real-life practitioners, are highlighting more than just the most important moves in the innovator to late adopter stage.
 
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Software Teams and Teamwork Trends Report Q1 2020

The Culture & Methods editors team present their take on the topics that are at the front of the technology adoption curve: how to make teams and teamwork more effective, in person or remote, some new tools and techniques, some ideas that have been around for a while and are starting to gain traction, the push for professionalism, ethical behavior and being socially and environmentally aware. (Article)

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Peter Bourgon on CRDTs and State at the Edge

Wes Reisz talks with Peter Bourgon, a distributed system engineer working on Fastly. The two engineers talk about the space of Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) specifically in the context of edge compute. Topics covered on the podcast include Edge compute, CRDTs, CAP Theorem, and challenges around a building distributed system. (Podcast)

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Johanna Rothman & Mark Kilby on Their Book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Johanna Rothman & Mark Kilby about their book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. (Podcast)

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QCon San Francisco (Nov 16-18, 2020 ) is going forward as planned

"QCon brings diverse minds together to discuss issues and trends in the industry from many perspectives. I love the large demographic." mentioned one of our 2019 attendees. Find out more about the conference.

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AlphaFold Algorithm Predicts COVID-19 Protein Structures

  2. Google Introduces TensorFlow Developer Certification

  3. Data Science Community Reacts to COVID-19 Pandemic

From POC to Production in Minimal Time - Avoiding Pain in ML Projects

Janet Bastiman describes how turning an AI proof of concept into a production ready, deployable system can be a world of pain, especially if different parts of the puzzle are fulfilled by different teams, going into technical details. (Presentation with transcript included)
The next QCon is QCon New York, June 15-17, 2020. Join us!

Real-Time Data Streaming with Azure Stream Analytics

Alexander Slotte introduces Azure Stream Analytics, its ecosystem, and real world examples streaming Twitter feeds as well as sensor data from Raspberry Pi. (Presentation)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Microsoft Updates Azure Dedicated Hosts with Reservations, Maintenance Control and More

  2. Spectro Cloud Launches a Kubernetes-Based Hybrid Cloud Platform

  3. Grafana Labs Announces GA of Cortex v1.0 and Discusses Architectural Changes

  4. GitHub Was down Multiple Times Last February: Here's Why

  5. Reimagining CI/CD Pipelines as Composable Blocks with Bryan Liles

Spring Data to Spring Cloud to Spring Security: How Azure Supercharges Spring Boot

Richard Seroter, Asir Selvasingh and Vaibhav Agrawal demo an application that features Spring Security for Azure AD, Spring Cosmos DB, Spring Stream Binder for Event Hubs, Azure Monitor, and others. (Presentation)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Theia Framework 1.0 Enables Web IDEs

  2. DNSSEC Signing Potentially Interrupted by Coronoavirus

Code Search Now Available to Browse Google's Open-Source Projects

Code Search is used by Google developers to search through Google's huge internal codebase. Now, Google has made it accessible to everyone to explore and better understand Google's open source projects, including TensorFlow, Go, Angular, and many others. (News)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. What's New in MicroProfile 3.3

Java's Missing Features: Five Years Later

Ben Evans revisits his take on Java's Missing Features from 2015 and compares how the language has evolved compared to his observations at the time. (Article)

Records and Sealed Types - Coming Soon to a JVM Near You!

Ben Evans talks about the recent changes in the Java language (Records, Sealed Types, Pattern Matching , etc.) and shows how big ideas in language design sometimes start from surprisingly small implementation details. (Presentation with transcript included)

Microsoft .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin

Last week, the second edition of the .NET Conf: Focus series took place, focusing on Xamarin. Xamarin extends the .NET platform with tools and libraries specifically for building mobile apps. The focus conferences are free, one-day livestream events featuring speakers from the community and .NET product teams. The first event of the series was earlier this year in January, focused on Blazor. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. ES2020's Feature Set Finalized

  2. ts-toolbelt Adds over 200 Type Utilities to TypeScript

  3. Angular 9.1 Adds TypeScript 3.8 Support and Faster Builds

  4. NativeScript 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 Releases Add Svelte, WebAssembly, KotlinJS and Performance Improvements

  5. Ionic's Stencil Component Compiler Design Considerations -- Adam Bradley at DotJS2019

Stork, a Rust/Wasm-Based Fast Full-Text Search for the JAMStack

James Little, developer at Stripe, released Stork (in beta), a Rust/WebAssembly full-text search application. Stork targets static and JAMStack sites and strives to provide sites’ users with excellent search speed. (News)

TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Uber Deals with Unreachable Code Associated to Feature Flags in its Mobile Apps

Exploiting Common iOS Apps’ Vulnerabilities

Ivan Rodriguez walks through some of the most common vulnerabilities on iOS apps and shows how to exploit them. All these vulnerabilities have been found on real production apps of companies that have (or don't have) a bug bounty program. This talk is useful for those connected with mobile app development or those who do use mobile apps to work with sensitive data. (Presentation with transcript included)

Break Your App before Someone Else Does

Ana Baotić discusses how to verify the code of an application for possible errors, focusing on Android apps. (Presentation)

From Monolith to riff Functions

Swapnil Bawaskar and Florent Biville take an in-depth look at riff and discuss strategies to break an actual monolith into its component functions and deploy them. (Presentation)

Streaming a Million Likes/Second: Real-Time Interactions on Live Video

Akhilesh Gupta does a technical deep-dive into how Linkedin uses the Play/Akka Framework and a scalable distributed system to enable live interactions like likes/comments at massive scale at extremely low costs across multiple data centers. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Looking after Mental Health and Wellbeing During COVID-19

A Practical Path towards Becoming a High Performance (IT) Organization

Michiel Sens provides advice on becoming a high performance IT organization. (Presentation)

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Secrets of a Strong Engineering Culture

Patrick Kua explores the building blocks of engineering culture, shares examples of how he has enabled and transformed the engineering culture of many teams and organizations, and how it can positively change the full stack. (Presentation with transcript included)

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