 In this podcast we sit down with Matt Klein, software plumber at Lyft and creator of Envoy, and discuss topics including the continued evolution of the popular proxy, the strength of the open source Envoy community, and the value of creating and implementing standards throughout the technology stack. (Podcast) |
 In this episode recorded at QCon London 2019 Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Andrea Dobson on balancing risk and psychological safety, and then Katherine Kirk on escaping organisational hell. (Podcast) |
 “I go to other conferences for very specific knowledge related to my company. I go to QCon for my own benefit as an engineer and architect”. Dan Vasquez - Director, Solution Architecture at Quicken Loans and past QCon attendee. Save up to $645, register before August 24th. |
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 Research has shown that machine learning models can expose personal information present in their training data. This vulnerability exposes sensitive user information to attackers savvy enough to learn how to hack a machine learning API. We'll explore the details of several privacy attacks against machine learning models and provide some potential solutions for this growing security issue. (Article) |
 Oliver Gindele discusses how some DL models can be implemented in TensorFlow, starting from a collaborative filtering approach and extending that to more complex deep recommender systems. (Presentation) |
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| Pulumi Crosswalk is an open source library of components for supporting AWS infrastructure as code. Crosswalk offers best practices around provisioning and managing AWS resources and aims to improve the developer experience when creating applications in AWS. (News) |
 In this eMag, we discuss the unique aspects of databases, both relational and NoSQL, in a successful continuous integration environment. (eMag) |
 This emag aims to remove some of the confusion around the topic of "service mesh", and help architects and technical leaders to choose if, when, and how to deploy a service mesh. A "service mesh" manages service-to-service communications across a compute cluster, and handles dynamic service discovery and routing, and also provides cross-cutting support for observability, reliability, and security. (eMag) |
 - Microsoft’s Azure Security Center for IoT now GA
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 John Hughes shows how to build properties for testing, and also new features in Haskell QuickCheck that support them. (Presentation) |
 Andjelko Iharos explores the goals, design and the choices behind the implementations of EBtree, and how they produce a very fast and versatile data storage for many of HAProxys advanced features. EBtree is a different take on the ubiquitous tree data structure, and has been helping HAProxy, a high performance open source software load balancer, to keep up with demands for over a decade. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Armon Dadgar talks about HashiCorp Research, its long tradition of basing their tools and products on academic research, how they incorporate research, and what has been particularly useful for them. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Trisha Gee talks about how to be a fully buzzword compliant developer, architect or lead, especially when “What’s Hot” changes on practically a daily basis. She gives an irreverent overview of the current technical landscape and presents a survival guide for those who want to stay ahead in this turbulent industry. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Chris Ford demonstrates that music theory can be delightfully represented as code. He shows how to make music starting with the basic building block of sound, the sine wave, and gradually accumulates abstractions culminating in a canon by Johann Sebastian Bach. Examples will be live-coded in Clojure. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Scaling up from proof-of-concept to production-grade microservices requires serious planning, dedication and time. Companies that have invested heavily in creating stable microservices architectures have learned many lessons. This InfoQ eMag takes in inside look - Download Now. |
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| Surma, Web Advocate at Google, recently published a study on the performance of postMessage, the method used by web workers to communicate. Surma concludes that while postMessage comes with some overhead, provided the payload is below a given budget, moving non-UI tasks off the main thread may result in increased overall user-perceived performance. (News) |
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 Maria Girone discusses the current challenges of capturing, storing, and processing the large volumes of data generated by the Large Hadron Collider experiments. She also discusses their ongoing research program at CERN Open Lab to explore alternative approaches, including the use of commercial clouds as well as alternative computing architectures, advanced data analytics, and deep learning. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 The panelists talk about the promises and perils of eschewing coordination in distributed systems. They cover a diverse range of opinions and use-cases (control planes, streaming engines, SQL databases, service discovery systems, etc.). (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Learn what some of the most well-known and respected figures in the field of software architecture (Martin Fowler, Vaughn Vernon, Justin Cormack & more) have to say about new emerging trends and also the evolution of existing topics that have gained wider adoption. |
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 Cross-boundary teams are the hub of innovation. However creating and nurturing a cross-functional team for innovation is a challenging task. It needs a deep understanding of the nature of knowledge, diversity and interactions within a team. Managers and team leaders can infer valuable information from a deeper understanding of the contextual and knowledge level challenges in such teams. (Article) |
 John Cutler talks about Bets, Boards, and Missions, and how to apply them in an organization, and why it is important to uplevel teams and become outcome-focused. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Listen to a series of 6 podcasts geared around how you can build culture, improve relationships and enhance productivity. Learn from experts in the field from established companies as Atlassian or smaller ones as SCM. |
 Raji Bhamidipati discusses how to recognize anti-patterns in Agile practices, and how to promote the idea that self-checking and diagnosis is better for prevention. (Presentation) |
 Liz Keogh looks at different strategies for approaching complex ecosystems, starting from the existing status quo and incrementally innovating. (Presentation) |
 Kingsley Davies talks about the story of Good Tech Conference, a conference he founded in 2018, the findings uncovered from it, and gives some concrete tips and techniques for attendees to evolve to work and live in a more ethical way. (Presentation with transcript included) |
