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 In little over a decade, Africa has gone from being a region where it's still hard to find power lines, fixed-line telecom infrastructure, and personal computers to being the second-most mobile-connected continent where about 15% of the billion inhabitants own a cell phone. (eMag) |
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 Brendan Gregg focuses on broken tools and metrics instead of the working ones. Metrics can be misleading, and counters can be counter-intuitive. Gregg includes advice and methodologies for verifying new performance tools, understanding how they work, and using them successfully. (Presentation)
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 Pavlo Baron attempts to explain why people are doing multiple languages, platforms, technology stacks and databases in one project. (Presentation) |
 Felienne Hermans explains how she used F# to determine if the game Quarto can end up in a tie or if there is always a winner. The technique used can be applied to scheduling and register allocation. (Presentation) |
 Jon Jagger introduces cyber-dojo.org, an open source environment for practicing programming, demoing its features and discussing its history, design, underlying technology, difficulties and future. (Presentation) |
 Martin Thompson talks about the characteristics of a good software engineer and explores the individual practices and techniques that can help bring out the engineer in everybody. (Presentation)
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 Reveno is a powerful new, easy to use, highly performant, JVM based lock-free transaction processing framework based on CQRS and event-sourcing patterns. In this article we will develop a simple trading system implementation using the Reveno framework. (Article) |
 Thomas Schindl presents his view on the new Java 9 module system. He introduces the main concepts, presenting how it works and how it differs from OSGi. (Presentation) |
 Juergen Hoeller talks about the key themes in Spring 5, based on the current state of development: going Java 8+ across the entire framework codebase, comprehensive support for JDK 9, a strong focus on HTTP/2, and first-class support for Spring-style reactive architectures. (Presentation)
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 Martin Thompson focuses on a long quest to discover algorithms which provide very high throughput while keeping latency low and predictable. He covers some fundamental theory of concurrency and then compares various approaches to the same problem of measuring the impact on latency. He shows how some of these algorithm implementations get more interesting given the new features in Java 8. (Presentation)
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| Microsoft has announced the first preview of Visual Studio 2015's successor. Even more impressive is a new extension available now that provides VS2015 with the ability to create and develop C++ projects for Linux and UNIX based systems. (News) |
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 Full-stack testing can be a widespread and involved task. There are unit tests and end-to-end tests, but how do you know where to focus your efforts? In this article, David Copeland looks at the kinds of tests and how to balance the interplay between those tests and the overall software development effort. (Article) |
 Ian Bull introduces Node4J and explores the performance characteristics and highlights the tools that help one develop, debug and deploy Node.JS applications running directly on the JVM. He explains how to integrate Node.JS with Java through a JNI bridge, and demonstrates how to use this technology to bridge the gap between JavaScript and Java. (Presentation) |
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 The mobile revolution is changing the way organizations work and manage their operations, as well as engage with their employees. As a result, organizations are reconsidering their technologies and techniques to make their traditional organizational cultures and roles more mobile friendly, making 'mobile first' a must have strategy. (Article) |
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 Rachel Reese talks about Jet.com's chaos testing methods and code in depth, but also lays out a path to implementation that everyone can use. (Presentation)
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 The concept of test management sits awkwardly in agile, mostly because it’s a construct derived from the time when testing was a post-development phase, performed by independent testing teams. Agile, with its focus on cross functional teams, has sounded the death knell for many test managers. While test management is largely irrelevant in agile, there is still a desperate need for test leadership. (Article) |
 A restaurant to give homeless people apprenticeships? A centre to foster social enterprise? A 'round the nation' bike ride? Helen Walton, chair of the Spark Award judging panel, talks to PwC about the range of their charitable activities in the UK, and why they're about business, not image. (Article) |
 When scaling agile principles through rituals it's important to constantly evaluate and evolve those rituals. This article provides examples of experiments that focus on the original intent when developing team behaviors. It shows how you can be aware of triggers that mean your team is not finding value in a ritual and what you can do to make things more visible. (Article) |
 Yasuo Hosotani presents how the Agile Tour Osaka has been organized without face-to-face or online meetings but only by using “Like” on Facebook. (Presentation) |
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 Karthik Ramasamy presents the design and implementation of Heron, the new de facto stream data processing engine at Twitter. Ramasamy shares Twitter's experience of running Heron in production. (Presentation)
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 Helena Edelson addresses new architectures emerging for large scale streaming analytics - based on Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra and Kafka (SMACK) and other streaming analytics platforms and frameworks using Apache Flink or GearPump. Edelson discusses the problem domain and what is needed in terms of strategies, architecture and application design and code to begin leveraging simpler data flows. (Presentation)
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 Gian Merlino discusses stream processors and a common use case - keeping databases up to date. This presents a number of challenges. Merlino talks about some of the possible approaches, their pros and cons, and looks at how they are used in real world systems like Kafka, Storm, Samza, Druid, and others. (Presentation)
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 Jim Webber talks about several kinds of fraud common in financial services and how each naturally decomposes into a straightforward graph use-case. To demonstrate the power of connected data, he explores use-cases using Neo4j and the (now open standard) Cypher query language to showcase just how performant, pleasant and powerful graphs can be, and how the fraudsters need to beware. (Presentation)
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 InfoQ recently sat down with Adrian Mouat, author of "Using Docker", and explored the motivations for writing the book, his thoughts on the reasons why Docker has captured the IT industry's attention such as short time span, and how containers can be best utilised within a typical software development lifecycle. (Article) |
 Book review and interview with Jeff Sussna, author of "Designing Delivery", on cybernetics, service exchange, customer-centric brands and a new definition of quality in a service-oriented world. (Article) |
 Following our series of live interviews on DevOps Enterprise adoption, InfoQ has reached out to other technical leaders in large organizations to ask them about their DevOps initiatives. What challenges have they faced? Which improvements have they seen? What lies ahead? On this occasion we're talking with Pauly Comtois, Vice President of DevOps at Hearst Business Media. (Article) |
 Xu Wang introduces HyperContainer, a runtime for running Docker images on any hypervisor, providing hardware-enforced isolation for multi-tenant environments. (Article) |
