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 This week’s podcast is with Emil Stolarsky and was recorded live after his talk on the subject at Strangeloop 2017. Interesting points from the podcast include several stories from Emil’s research, including the origin of the checklist, how Walmart pushed decision making down to the store level in a national disaster, and where the formalized conversation structure onboard aircraft originated. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Lee Cunningham of VersionOne about the results from the State of Agile Survey. (Podcast) |
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 Deborah Hanus discusses some of the challenges that can arise when working with data. With recent advances in computational power, ML is positioned to change interaction with the world around. A surge of well-maintained ML libraries has made it possible for engineers to use ML models with minimal background. However, many find that using ML responsibly can be harder than it seems. (Presentation) |
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 These are still early days for Docker on Windows but the possibilities in terms of workloads keeps growing. InfoQ spoke with Elton Stoneman, author of the book Docker on Windows, and speaker at the recent WinOps conference, to understand how to run containers on Windows and which kind of workloads are a good choice for migration. (Article) |
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 Thomas Arts discusses how to test web services with QuickCheck. (Presentation) |
 Nicolas Rigaud discusses the present and the future of social robots. (Presentation) |
 Kyle Daigle shares why GitHub chose GraphQL, how it differs from REST, how GitHub went about implementing it, and how they're using it in production a year later. (Presentation) |
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 With each successive version of Java, frameworks must adapt and transform in order to stay current. This article aims to describe some of the new Java 8 features in Eclipse Collections, a high performance collections framework for Java, and looks ahead at some of the new things we’ve done to prepare for Java 9. This article will walk through these new features and changes. (Article) |
 Jake Wharton discusses how to think about asynchronous sources, the tools that RxJava provides to handle them, and takes a look at the future of Java and how it will affect the library. (Presentation) |
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| .NET Standard is an API specification that defines what Base Class Libraries must be implemented. .NET Core is a managed framework optimized for building console, cloud, ASP.NET Core, and UWP applications. Each managed implementation (such as Xamarin, .NET Core, or the .NET Framework) must implement their BCL according the .NET Standard. (News) |
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| Although no official statement has been issued by the company, some later affirmations by top Microsoft executives tell us that Windows 10 Mobile development is stopped. (News) |
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| Microservices and reactive systems bring with them uncertainty about messages arriving out of order, multiple times, or not at all. How to react to such uncertainty is a business decision, says Vaughn Vernon, and is best captured by modeling the uncertainty using concepts of Domain-Driven Design. (News) |
 Lars Markull discusses using the figo Connect API to connect to thousands of banks and payment service providers to get info about transactions, portfolios, payments or notifications. (Presentation) |
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 We stay up on new languages, frameworks, and architectures yet ignore the value of mainframe applications. Mainframes manage 70% of the world’s transactions yet its programmer workforce is rapidly retiring baby boomers. And millennials have no interest in mainframe careers. This article describes that state of mainframe applications, bad talks management, and then provides detailed solutions. (Article) |
 Pavneet Singh Saund shares how his journey towards empathy has helped with burnout, Imposter Syndrome, parenting and self-care. He explores the core components of empathy and how a software developer can apply it to their approach to work and life. He shows practical approaches and techniques to improve empathy skills. (Presentation)
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 Don Denoncourt talks about how to stay relevant in the tech industry, ways to keep coding skills sharp, no matter how old we are, perspectives for technical growth and how to be a lifelong learner. (Presentation)
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 David Copeland talks about what one can do to be best as a remote team member, as well as what one needs from environment, team, and company. It's not about technical stuff—it's the human stuff. He also talks about how one can be present and effective when not physically there. (Presentation)
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 Scott Ford and Andrea Goulet discuss how communication and code are inextricably linked and share their top five tips with the audience so one can immediately improve communication and accelerate career.(Presentation)
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