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 In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate at Google. Topics covered included: the extensibility of Kubernetes, and why it has become the platform that other platforms are being built on top of; creating event-driven architectures and deploying these onto Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms like the Kubernetes-based Knative and Google Cloud Run. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Arie van Bennekum about Liquid Manifesto, a transformation framework to help organisations shift from old paradigms to new ones.(Podcast) |
 Discover the trends from 2019 that will impact your plans for 2020. Get insights from InfoQ editors, senior developers like you, that will help you make informed mid and long-term decisions about what technologies you should invest in. Bonus: best tech talks that you should have missed last year. Read more. |
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 Grishma Jena gives an overview of Machine Learning and delves deep into the pipeline used - right from fetching the data, the tools and frameworks used to creating models, gaining insights and telling a story. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Victor Dibia provides a friendly introduction to machine learning, covers concrete steps on how front-end developers can create their own ML models and deploy them as part of web applications. He discusses his experience building Handtrack.js - a library for prototyping real time hand tracking interactions in the browser. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 InfoQ caught up with experts Scott Coulton, cloud developer advocate at Microsoft, Liz Rice, VP of open source engineering at Aqua Security, Gareth Rushgrove, director of product management at Snyk, Maya Kaczorowski, product manager for security and privacy at Google Cloud and Kirsten Newcomer, senior principal product manager at Redhat about the state of the union of Kubernetes security. (Article) |
 Andreas Evers discusses Spinnaker, a stateful, open-source, multi-region, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform written in Spring. (Presentation) |
 Will Larson unpacks the process of picking and prioritizing technical infrastructure work, which is essential to long-term company success but discussed infrequently. Larson shares Stripe's approaches to prioritizing infrastructure as a company scales, justifying a company's spend on technical infrastructure, exploring the whole range of possible areas to invest into infrastructure. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 Kenneth McAlpine explores how the combination of hardware and performative coding shaped the sound of early video game music, and how it changed the way that composers conceived of and used music. (Presentation) |
 Dave Farley discusses adopting a disciplined, scientific approach to solving problems in software while still encouraging people-centric creation. (Presentation) |
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 Recently coroutines have become popular as an alternative to Reactive Programming on the JVM. In many cases the costs of restructuring your code around functional operations for reactive streams outweigh the benefits, so coroutines have emerged, initially for Android, as an alternative solution. This deep dive explores how Kotlin's implementation works under the hood. (Article) |
 Todd Ginsberg presents the basics of Kotlin and the features that make it compelling. (Presentation) |
 Gil Tene discusses some of the new Java deployment features and issues that will affect migration of applications from earlier versions. (Presentation) |
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 In this article we walk through the process of updating an EF Core 3.1 based DAL to adhere to modern best practices such as TreatWarningsAsErrors, FxCopAnalyzers, and C# 8’s nullable reference types. (Article) |
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 There has been an explosion of frameworks and libraries for making single page applications for the web. Angular, React, Vue and quite a few others have made it easier to develop on the web and helped fuel its growth as webapps have become more dynamic and interactive. However, there may still be room for other libraries and new ideas such as Datum, a new, simple data binding library. (Article) |
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| Connected Home over IP is a recently announced, joint effort by Apple, Google, Amazon, and the Zigbee Alliance to define a connectivity standard for smart home products. To accelerate this initiative, Apple has open sourced parts of its core technology for smart home connectivity. (News) |
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 Software systems are creative compounds, emergent and generative; the product of complex interactions between people and technology. They are different from the orderly, analytic worlds that our school-age selves expect to find. Beings so full of complexity and uncertainty, we use a different way to arrive at a solution. (Article) |
 Oliver Drotbohm and Greg Turnquist discuss how to build flexible web services using hypermedia with Spring HATEOAS 1.0. (Presentation) |
 Adrian Cockcroft explores how to apply some industry standard techniques (including Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) to cloud native microservices architectures. He looks at how chaos engineering techniques are driving the industry from annual datacenter disaster recovery testing of monolithic applications to continuous resilience assurance for cloud native microservices. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Pat Helland provides a partial taxonomy of diverse storage solutions available over a distributed cluster. Part of this is an exploration of the interactions among different features of a store. The talk then considers how distinct application patterns have grown over time to leverage these stores and the business requirements they meet. It concludes with a set of actionable takeaways. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 The Host Leadership Field Book: Building Engagement for Performance and Results provides 30 cases and experiences from people who are applying host leadership in different settings. The book emerged from the 2019 Host Leadership Gathering, and was edited by Mark McKergow and Pierluigi Pugliese. (Article) |
 Alexandra Kloss and Ari Tikka discuss how LeSS can help when several companies are involved, the overall workflow is waterfall with fixed deadlines, and the culture uses detailed specifications. (Presentation) |
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 Thiago Ghisi discusses lessons learned in his career securing and advancing in a good job. (Presentation) |
 Ryan Caligiuri discusses how to increase mental resilience, the two precursors to resilience, the four pillars of resilience, and reprogramming the brain to better respond to stressful situations. (Presentation) |
