In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Deema Dajani (Advisor Transformation Consulting) & Shannon Mason (VP Product Management, Agile Central) of CA Technologies about the Women in Agile organisation, their own experiences as women in the technology industry and ways to support and increase diversity in organisations. (Podcast) |
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Conrado Silva Miranda shares his experience leveraging research to production settings, presenting the major issues faced by developers and how to establish stable production for research. (Presentation) |
His talk covers techniques and recommendations for designing highly productive APIs for ML and contains essential updates on the new TensorFlow 2.0 framework. Register using the code infoqai19 and get an $80 discount! |
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This article provides an insight into the creation of the Ambassador open source API gateway for Kubernetes, and discusses the technical challenges and lessons learned from building a developer-focused control plane for managing ingress or "edge" traffic within microservice-based applications. (Article) |
Ana Medina discusses the benefits of using Chaos Engineering to inject failures in order to make our container infrastructure more reliable. She also shares how to improve container monitoring and observability and lessons learned from running Chaos Engineering GameDays with Gremlin customers. (Presentation with transcript included) The next QCon is QCon London, March 4-6, 2019. Join us! |
Vallery Lancey covers basic principles of observing systems, controller design, and PID controllers. In particular, she dives into container scaling controllers, using both first principles and proven designs from Kubernetes and Mesos. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Bryan Liles and Carlos Amedee explore topics from booting Kubernetes clusters to running complex workloads as a list of 10 items. They share ideas that our teams can employ to make working Kubernetes less of a chore and more of a way of life. The topics of this session cover tips and hints ranging from bootstrapping clusters to managing custom workloads, and more. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Andrew Spyker talks about Netflix's feisty team’s work across container runtimes, scheduling & control plane, and cloud infrastructure integration. He also talks about the demons they’ve found on this journey covering operability, security, reliability and performance. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Alex Robinson walks through his experiences trying to reliably run a distributed database on Kubernetes, optimize its performance, and help others do the same in their heterogeneous environments. He looks at what kinds of stateful applications can most easily be run in containers, and a number of pitfalls he encountered along the way. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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In a recent blog post, Facebook announced they have open-sourced DeepFocus, an AI powered framework for improving focus on close objects. This technology ensures nearby objects are in-focus, while distant objects appear out of focus, much like cinematic experiences. DeepFocus takes advantage of an end-to-end convolutional neural network that produces an accurate retinal blur in near real-time. (News) |
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Gitflow is a collaborative branching model that exploits the power, speed and simplicity of Git branching. But documentation for Gitflow in a CI/CD environment is sparse; which of the well-known branch names - master, development, feature, etc, do we build, test, deploy snapshots, and deploy releases? This article provides a flavor of Gitflow that can be used in a CI/CD environment. (Article) |
Christoph Strobl discusses some of the new features in Spring Data including compatibility improvements with 3rd party libraries like Vavr and language extensions for Kotlin. (Presentation) |
Pulkit Chandra and Nikhil Chandrappa showcase the Spring data annotation support for getting started with PCC and explain how developers can mock the PCC behavior when testing. (Presentation) |
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This report is a case study on upgrading a C# 7 class library to C# 8 with nullable reference types. The project used in this case study is a collection of MVVM style base classes, reflection code, and various utility functions. It was chosen because it is reasonably small and has a good mix of idiomatic and unusual C# patterns. (Article) |
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Lemon shows a methodology for building websites with Vue, Pug and Sass. (Presentation) |
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Google has released Android Studio 3.3. This version is mainly focused on bug fixes and stability improvements, however it also brings official support for Navigation Editor, updates on Kotlin and IntelliJ Platform, and more. (News) |
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Cloud-native applications do not just live inside Kubernetes—they also benefit from using the available cloud managed services. Similar to Kubernetes' declarative object configuration model, the Open Service Broker API with the Service Catalog provides a declarative way to describe cross-platform/cross-cloud managed service dependencies. (Article) |
Viktor Gamov and Prasad Radhakrishnan cover the challenges and lessons learned from the development of Confluent Operator for Kubernetes as well as various custom deployments on PKS. (Presentation) |
Ryland Degnan and Stephane Maldini explore the current state of messaging architecture and provide an R&D perspective on the future of distributed systems. (Presentation) |
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As silos break down, the whole team is responsible for quality in software development. As process more and more defines people and processes, how can you strive for better quality of releases? (Article) |
An in-depth look at the criteria & requirements for Functional Test Automation in the agile world, and the capabilities you should build in your custom framework, or should exist the tools you choose. Anand Bagmar explores aspects like readability, reuse, debugging / rca, CI, Test Data, Parallel Execution, integration with other tools & libraries, free Vs open-source and support. (Article) |
Dave West talks about what Agile adoption and Agile Transformations may look like in 2019, considering factors like the economy, the role of management, the importance of organizations being people centric and how value streams should be inclusive of all elements to deliver value. (Article) |
Andrew Annet and Catherine Swetel discuss visualization techniques to structure useful conversations about evolving role changes for organizations in the midst of adopting Agile principles and practices. (Presentation) |
Lance Rochelle discusses how rebuilding regularly affects the partnership between the PCF team and other teams within a highly regulated organization, real cost savings, and reducing risk. (Presentation) |