 - A retrospective article, best content on InfoQ in 2018
- Charles Humble & Wes Reisz speculate on what 2019 might have in store
- Most important trends from software architecture conferences (QCons) across the globe
- The 2018 InfoQ Editors’ Recommended Reading List: Part One
- The 2018 InfoQ Editors’ Recommended Reading List: Part Two
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 InfoQ released an Alexa Flash briefing that tells you the latest tech-news available on InfoQ.com. This flash briefing skill gives you an update on the latest trends in software, and summarizes it in less than two minutes. The skill is available wherever Amazon has English Alexa skills. (News) |
 We take a look back at the QCon highlights in 2018, including QCon London, QCon.AI, QCon New York and QCon San Francisco. (eMag) |
 Charles Humble and Wes Reisz talk about autonomous vehicles, GDPR, quantum computing, Microservices, AR/VR and more. (Podcast) |
 This year around 1,600 attendees descended on the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco for the twelfth annual QCon. Software engineers, architects, and project managers from a wide range of industries - including some prominent Bay-area companies - attended 99 technical sessions across 6 concurrent tracks, 13 ask me anything sessions with speakers, 18 in-depth workshops, and 8 facilitated open spaces. (Article) |
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 Chris Butler discusses the building blocks of AI from a product/design perspective, what trust is, how trust is gained and lost, and techniques one can use to build trusted AI products. (Presentation) |
 Gregory Antell explores the definition of interpretability in ML, the trade-offs with complexity and performance, and surveys the major methods used to interpret and explain ML models in the GDPR era (Presentation) |
 The panelists discuss the future of artificial intelligence. (Presentation) |
 Hema Raghavan focusses on technologies they have built to power LinkedIn’s “People You May Know” product. She describes their nearline platform for notification recommendation and shows that delivering the right information to the right user at the right time is critical to building an actively engaged community. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 If you're building separate Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) templates for each infrastructure use case, you can make existing templates more flexible by using Parameters, Conditions, Mappings, and Outputs. (Article) |
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 Komes Subramaniam introduces T-Mobile’s Authentication and Authorization Process (TAAP), presenting how it works and what are the benefits. (Presentation) |
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 In this article, we will investigate testing your ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web API solutions. We will look at internal testing with Unit Testing and externally testing your solution with a new testing framework in ASP.NET Core called Integration Testing. (Article) |
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 Lyndsey Padget steps through building a reactive form in Angular 2+ with code snippets and demos. (Presentation) |
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| Project Mu aims to make it easier for developers to quickly create and frequently update the firmware of their devices, enabling Project Mu devices to adopt a Firmware as a Service (FaaS) evolution model. Project Mu contains the same code leveraged in several of products, including the Microsoft Surface and Hyper-V, Microsoft says. (News) |
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 We discuss the two main types of blockchain solution, and some of the major variants deployed today. Use cases for the different solutions are also explored. (Article) |
 Steve Smith looks at some common places for signs of app design degradation, showing steps to take to improve the code. Examples use C#/.NET but are generally applicable regardless of platform. (Presentation) |
 Matt Stine discusses the architecture of robust systems which are adapting to changing conditions in order to not only survive stress but sometimes to benefit from it. (Presentation) |
 Zack Butcher talks about how a service mesh helps with the transition from monoliths to microservices, to empower operations teams, and to adopt security best-practices. Then he talks about a few advanced use cases, like how a service mesh can help us build applications deployed across multiple clusters and multiple infrastructure providers. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Vaughn Vernon gives practical guidance on using DDD to model business-driven solutions that result in software that is fluent, type-safe, and with core Reactive properties. Specific attention is given to moving legacy systems that have deep debt to ones that have clear boundaries, deliver explicit and fluent business models, and exploit modern hardware and software architectures. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 The book “Lean Product Management” by Mangalam Nandakumar is about finding the smartest way to build an Impact Driven Product that can deliver value to customers and meet business outcomes when operating under internal and external constraints. (Article) |
 The book Digital Transformation at Scale by Andrew Greenway, Ben Terrett, Mike Bracken and Tom Loosemore, explores what governmental and other large organizations can do to make a digital transformation happen. It is based on the authors’ experience designing and helping to deliver the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS). (Article) |
 Siew Choo Soh discusses DBS Bank’s new approach to customers using the latest digital solutions. (Presentation) |
 In conversation with Nigel Dalton and Steve Denning share what’s involved in what he believes to be the next frontier of Agile management – Strategic Agility. (Presentation) |
