SPONSOR AD  The "new way" of building cloud applications is defined by containers, Kubernetes, elasticity, scale and serverless; skeptics are calling Java's relevance into question. In this talk we’ll answer the question of Java’s relevance by getting hands on with tools such as Spring, Quarkus, Micronaut and Vert.x that may sway Java's fate as a programming language of choice. Live Webinar August 27th – Save your Seat. |
| |
 In this podcast, Ana Medina discussed with Daniel Bryant about how enterprise organisations are adopting chaos engineering with the requirements for guardrails and the need for “status checks” to ensure pre-experiment system health; how to run game days or IT fire drills when everyone is working remotely; and why teams should continually invest in learning from past incidents. (Podcast) |
| |
TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES |
-
|
 The first wave of GPT-3 powered applications are emerging. After priming of only a few examples, GPT-3 could write essays, answer questions, and even generate computer code! Furthermore, GPT-3 can perform algebraic calculations and language translations despite never being taught such concepts. However, GPT-3 is a black box with unpredictable outcomes. Developers must use it responsively. (Article) |
 Susanne Groothuis discusses how KPMG created a custom sentiment analysis model capable of detecting subtleties, and provides them with a metric indicating the balance of a report. (Presentation with transcript included)
Join us for our upcoming QCon, QCon San Francisco, Nov 16-20, 2020 |
SPONSOR AD  In this manual, four pros (including Kubernetes cofounder Brendan Burns) guide you through best practices of building applications on Kubernetes. Download now. |
| |
| |
TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES |
-
-
-
|
 DataOps is an extension of DevOps standards and processes into the data analytics world. It's about streamlining the processes involved in processing, analyzing and deriving value from big data. (Article) |
 InfoQ recently sat down with Bassam Tabbara, founder and CEO of Upbound, and discussed building application platforms that span multiple cloud vendors and on-premise infrastructure. Crossplane is an open source cloud control plane that enables engineers to manage any infrastructure or cloud services directly from Kubernetes. (Article) |
| |
TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES |
-
-
|
 In this final article in the series on new features in PHP 7.x, we shall discuss improvements to arrays, operators, constants, and exception handling. (Article) |
 Dom Davis looks at how Go handles concurrency, and how goroutines and channels can be utilized to create complex concurrent patterns. (Presentation) |
SPONSOR AD  As DevOps adoption grows enterprises experience a major shift in process, creating a testing bottleneck. Benchmark yourself against your peers in adoption and testing habits. Download here. |
| |
| |
| Final releases of records and the new pattern matching functionality for instanceof are planned for JDK 16. (News) |
SPONSOR AD  Quarkus is a Kubernetes-native Java stack for microservices and serverless development that works out of the box with popular Java standards, frameworks, and libraries. Quarkus’ fast startup times, low memory footprint, and small application size make it deal for cloud-native development. Learn more. |
| |
| |
TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES |
-
|
| The React team recently released React 17 (first release candidate), two years after React 16. React 17 strives to ease the migration between future major versions of React by enabling two concurrent versions to coexist. React 17 additionally has a few breaking changes related to the event system and the scheduling. (News) |
| |
TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES |
-
|
 Deep systems, with multiple layers of microservices, have special challenges, and handling them requires the right mindset and tools. (Article) |
 Daniel Osborne and Martin Dow discuss relational theory, functional relational programming and self-contained systems. Osborne and Dow explain their approach to complexity, and show how they inform the design of many parts of their system, including the ledger and their web stack. (Presentation with transcript included) |
| |
TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES |
-
|
 Mindfulness classes and programs have been offered to employees in many organizations for almost a decade. They were offered via instructors that visited the organizations. However, when employees were forced to work from home, due to Covid-19 restrictions, mindfulness instructors turned to Zoom and other online conferencing solutions to lead their classes virtually (Article) |
 The book The Improv Mindset by Bruce and Gail Montgomery provides the framework, activities, case stories, and data to help you apply improv in a business context. They show how you can deal with uncertainty by changing how your brain responds to change, as well as provide methods to systematically improve individual, team, and organization performance by leveraging the core principles of improv. (Article) |
 Victoria Puscas talks about how a team of engineers and data scientists worked together for a year and became high performing by embracing change, improving day to day practices, breaking the walls between disciplines and overcoming many communication (and other!) challenges together. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Liz Keogh looks at how innovation often happens through unexpected side-effects, and some different strategies for approaching complex ecosystems, allowing new ideas to emerge. (Presentation) |
SPONSORED CONTENT Latest White Papers  Apache Spark on GraalVM Enterprise – Improve Apache Spark Performance with GraalVM Enterprise
3 Common Pitfalls in Microservice Integration – And How to Avoid Them High-Performance Microservices using Java |
