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 The eleventh annual QCon San Francisco was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1,800 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors. (Article) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave West, CEO and chief product owner at Scrum.org, about the state of Scrum in 2017 and the future of agile. (Podcast) |
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 In this article, we describe an example real world application of API monitoring which benefits from using approximate stream processing. We developed the application on top of WSO2 Stream Processor as Siddhi extension. Siddhi is the complex event processing library which acts as the event processing engine of WSO2 Stream Processor. (Article) |
 Harold Pulcher discusses Cognitive Services, how to get started using them, and how to incorporate speech, image, and facial recognition into an application. (Presentation) |
 Let your peers know about your successes and failures. Submit an article and you can win a QCon ticket. (Announcement) |
 We have a bunch of introductory guides, case studies from real companies using it. |
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 Eberhard Wolff speaks with InfoQ about his work "Continuous Delivery: A Practical Guide", where we detail some of the major concepts behind successful CD adoption and the ripple-effect it can have on developer productivity and quality of service. (Article) |
 - Logging within Cloud Native Applications
- Functional Service Design and Observability
- Avoiding Alert Overload from Microservices
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 Mark Drew goes through the fundamentals of the Query Language, structure, use cases and how to get started with consuming and creating GraphQL endpoints. (Presentation) |
 Matthew Campbell discusses how to make error logs easier to consume and harder to avoid, sharing how to drive motivation for a project that feels never-ending. (Presentation) |
 - Adventures in ClojureScript
- Scala Typeclasses
- Reactive JavaScript
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| As part of the process to transition Oracle Java EE 8 and GlassFish technologies to the Eclipse Foundation, the first nine projects have been proposed to ultimately be included in the Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J). Dmitry Kornilov, senior software development manager at Oracle, and Michael Milinkovich, executive director at the Eclipse Foundation, spoke to InfoQ about these new projects. (News) |
 - Debugging Serverless JVM Functions
- Java 9 Migration Tips
- What’s New in Spring Security 5
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| A persistent myth in .NET is that memory allocations don’t affect performance. In this report we take a look at the source of that myth and offer advice on how to reduce memory usage. (News) |
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| Facebook has decided to adopt a new Request for Comments (RFC) process to help guide the design of React and smooth the pathway from idea to implementation. The new process, based on the Rust RFC process, asks developers to submit an RFC before beginning work on a large change to React's codebase. (News) |
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 Xamarin is becoming a popular tool for mobile app development. There are a number of very good reasons for this as well as a few drawbacks that make it unsuitable for certain kinds of apps. This article will dwell upon them as well as weigh up the pros and cons of cross-platform versus native development. (Article) |
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 Jamie Butler and Cody Pierce discuss a new system for early detection and prevention of unknown exploits. Their system uses Performance Monitoring Unit hardware to enforce coarse-grained Control Flow Integrity (CFI). They intend to prove that their approach is effective and suitable for practical use, while staying resistant to bypass. (Presentation)
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 Edward Wible and Rafael Ferreira discuss the key elements that make Nubank tick for millions of customers every day, including transaction authorization, messaging infrastructure (Kafka), real-time double-entry accounting (Datomic), customer and temporal sharding, their analytical environment and the role of predictive models, and some key security decisions they made along the way. (Presentation)
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 Richard Zhao talks about TI and AI in real practices, and crowd defense - a way to integrate defense measures against both targeted and untargeted attacks, avoiding being the low hanging fruit. He also talks about the best practices around TI based crowd defense and corresponding challenges that need collective efforts. (Presentation)
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 Tyler McMullen talks through the components and design of a real system, as well as the theory behind them. The system is built to perform very high volumes of health checks, done across a cluster of machines for reliability and scalability. It includes things like gossip, failure detection, leader election, logical clocks, and consistency trade-offs. (Presentation)
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 Pia-Maria Thorén has written a book titled Agile People, in which she challenges the role of Human Resources in organisations, identifies where the current approaches are not working and why they need to change to support modern organisational thinking. (Article) |
 Nick Caldwell discusses his engineering team's approach to agile development as they scaled from 40 to 120 engineers. He discusses how they use tools like JIRA and Tableau, meeting rhythms, and covers the cultural elements of a successful team that works at every point of scale. (Presentation)
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 Pete Steel discusses several culture traits that drive an effective experimentation environment, the methods that can be used to experiment and some related successes and failures stories. (Presentation) |
