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 At InfoQ we regularly revisit the topics we focus on based on the technology adoption curve. This article provides a view of the topics we see as being important to the community at the beginning of 2018. Some new topics have appeared since 2017 and there have been some significant shifts in what matters to individuals, teams and organisations over the last year. (Article) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Linda Rising about her talk at Agile 2017 in which she explores her own reaction to the politics in the USA and how it triggered her to research morality and values. (Podcast) |
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 Andrew Burt on the implications of GDPR on data collection, storage and use for any organization dealing with customer data in the EU. Burt explains what's the minimum an org needs to pass the GDPR test, as well as how to take the opportunity to improve their overall data governance. (Article) |
 The proliferation of messaging platforms is forcing companies to shift towards an omnichannel strategy, where they need to be able to contact people in their preferred channel. In this article we will develop an omnichannel messaging chatbot that offers two-way communications over SMS and Facebook using the Twilio Studio visual tool. (Article) |
 Davis Shepherd and Eugen Cepoi discuss the evolution of ML automation at Netflix and how that lead them to build Meson, an orchestration system used for many of the personalization / recommendation algorithms. They talk about challenges they faced, and what they learned automating thousands of ML pipelines with Meson. (Presentation)
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 It doesn't matter which one you use. You can now run both SQL and NoSQL? on Azure. Go thru a selection of case studies and news about how you can do that. |
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 InfoQ eMag: Getting Started with Cloud Native Development. A cloud-native approach improves how companies of all ages and sizes deliver software to customers. Download this eMag to get a deeper understanding of the cloud-native revolution, and see what it takes to jump in. |
 Sabha Parameswaran discuses NSX-V and NSX-T, the differences between them and their integration with PCF. (Presentation) |
 John Willis talks about how developers and operators can include security in all parts of the delivery pipeline, and implement security gates in the same way as they implement code test gates. (Presentation)
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 Jimmy Bogard discusses continuous delivery in Azure, covering automated builds, packaging, deployments, CD pipelines, Azure Resource Manager, infrastructure-as-code, blue-green deployments, etc.(Presentation) |
 Usha Ramachandran and Sai Chaitanya discuss VMware NSX, the Cloud Foundry Network Policy Model, and demonstrate its integration with Cloud Foundry. (Presentation) |
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 Min Ni talks about how Python memory profiling is done at Instagram, what useful insights they got from memory profiling data, and how such insights turned into efficiency wins for Instagram servers. He shares their learnings from tuning and improving Python memory garbage collection. (Presentation)
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 Released this past summer, JPA 2.2 delivered some frequently requested enhancements, especially by providing better alignment with Java 8 features, such as support for the Date and Time API and the retrieval of a query result as a Stream. (Article) |
 Jon Schneider introduces Micrometer and walks through practical exercises that demonstrate how to instrument an application code to yield actionable metrics insights and alerts. (Presentation) |
 Phillip Webb and Madhura Bhave discussSprin Boot 2, improvements, how to migrate to it, tweaks and utilities, and internals. (Presentation) |
 Mark Fisher and Dave Syer introduce the introduce Spring Cloud Function in the context of using Java and Spring, from the basic programming model all the way to multi-cloud deployments. (Presentation) |
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| The proliferation of web-based applications and mobile apps have proven to be very popular both with end-users and developers. But what about traditional Windows line-of-business applications that still require the resources of a desktop computer? A look at UWP apps on Windows 10 and whether they can meet the challenge. (News) |
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 Jack Franklin shares his experience migrating an application from Angular to React, presenting code examples and also the negative points of this migration. (Presentation) |
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| Apple has announced a major upgrade of ARKit, which is available to developers with iOS 11.3 beta. According to Apple, ARKit 1.5 will allow developers to build more immersive augmented reality (AR) experiences. (News) |
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 At QCon San Francisco 2016, Neha Narkhede presented “ETL is Dead; Long Live Streams”, and discussed the changing landscape of enterprise data processing. A core premise of the talk was that the open source Apache Kafka streaming platform can provide a flexible and uniform framework that supports modern requirements for data transformation and processing. (Article) |
 Matt Zimmer talks about Apache Flink, an open-source stream processing framework for distributed, high-performing, always-available, and accurate data streaming applications. He shows how to use this API to aggregate events into windows customized along varying definitions of a session. He discusses implementation details: handling out-of-order events, periodically emitting early results and more. (Presentation)
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 In the book The Age of Surge, Brad Murphy and Carol Mase explore a human-centered approach to scaling agility and transforming companies for digital. The book describes the Digital Wave Model which companies can use to disrupt organizational structures and business functions and re-create them to fit the digital landscape. (Article) |
 Talent, knowledge and leadership are today’s currency for competitiveness. HR teams that begin to think about their roles as creating an employment experience will be on the leading edge of modern workplaces. This article explores how Consumerization of Human Resources” – or “TalentSumerization” – can be used to create a social, mobile, and consumer-style employee experience. (Article) |
 The panelists share from their experiences working in various sized organizations, across various industries, Agile experiences which can be applied to another team, department, or organization. (Presentation) |
 Szczepan Faber talks about two different use cases of implementing continuous delivery at scale: LinkedIn and Mockito. Yet the challenges, benefits and impact on the engineering culture are very similar. (Presentation)
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