 On this podcast, we’re talking to Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp. We discuss the formation of the HashiCorp research division and explore some of the computer science research underpinning Consul and Nomad. We also cover the challenges of supporting teams when they are looking to embrace new modes of working with dynamic infrastructure. (Podcast) |
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 Gwen Shapira discusses how data engineering requirements changed in a cloud-native world, and how the solutions change with them. She shares architectural patterns that are commonly used to build cloud native data infrastructure, and how they help us build flexible, scalable and reliable pipelines to give our business visibility on all our data. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Gareth Rogers shows how his team used Clojure to provide a solid platform to connect and manage an AWS hosted analytics pipeline and the pitfalls they encountered on the way. (Presentation) |
 Listen to a series of 5 podcasts geared around what software developers should know about ML and AI, together with inside information about building, training, and deploying AI/ML systems in production. |
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| Spinnaker is an open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform co-developed by Google and Netflix. In a recent blog post, Google introduced the Spinnaker for Google Cloud Platform solution, which allows customers to install and run Spinnaker in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). (News) |
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 While the majority of organizations have enthusiastically embraced agile planning and development, most still find themselves unable to effectively implement continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle. There are four best practices to help overcome this: focus on test quality, keep your tests short and atomic, test across multiple platforms, and leverage parallelization. (Article) |
 Celia Kung talks about Brooklin – LinkedIn’s managed data streaming service that supports multiple pluggable sources and destinations, which can be data stores or messaging systems. She dives deeper into Brooklin’s architecture and use cases, as well as their future plans. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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| On his continuing quest for productivity and performance in the Java language, Brian Goetz, Java language architect at Oracle, along with Alex Buckley, specification lead for the Java language and Java Virtual Machine at Oracle, proposed a set of hyphenated keywords to evolve the language as new features are added. Goetz spoke to InfoQ about these proposed hyphenated keywords. (News) |
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 Don Syme keynotes on examples of F# code he loves and why. He also touches language design, functional programming, object programming, language features and functional-first programming. (Presentation) |
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 Jamund Ferguson talks about some of the challenges PayPal faced with their Node.js application servers and why they think the JAMStack approach improves performance for both their apps and their developers. He includes discussions around performance, security, development experience and deploy speed. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Kate Sills talks about some of the security issues using NPM packages, the EventStream incident that created a security breach in a package, and Realms and SES (Secure ECMAScript) as possible solutions to NPM package security vulnerabilities. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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| Cross Platform Swift provides the foundation for cross-platform iOS and Android app development using Swift. Its 2019 roadmap focuses on achieving feature completeness, improving productivity and usability, and enhancing communication with the Swift development community. (News) |
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 John Chapin explains how to use serverless technologies and an infrastructure-as-code approach to architect, build, and operate large-scale systems that are resilient to vendor failures, even while taking advantage of fully managed vendor services and platforms. He leads an end-to-end demo of the resilience of a well-architected serverless system in the face of massive simulated failure. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Hugo Haas talks about the platform and architecture behind WeWork’s technology transformation over the past 2.5 years. He outlines some of the unique technology challenges WeWork faces – global systems across China and the rest of the world, hybrid infrastructure between the cloud and on-premise physical buildings, etc. – and describes in detail how WeWork is tackling them. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Colm MacCárthaigh shows what PID loops look like in the context of modern systems, and how exponential backoff, flow-control, and other techniques can be wielded to build self-healing systems. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Garrett Heinlen talks about how Netflix builds and deploys GraphQL and how they are running it in production. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Learn what some of the most well-known and respected figures in the field of software architecture (Martin Fowler, Vaughn Vernon, Justin Cormack & more) have to say about new emerging trends and also the evolution of existing topics that have gained wider adoption. |
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 How to use the Toyota Production System as a knowledge-building system to reveal learning topics on which to work to develop outstanding Scrum teams for exceptional results. (Article) |
 For those who love continuous improvement, software engineering fits. Turn in any direction and you’ll see potential for doing better, going faster and increasing quality. You should not try to chase the latest and greatest agile practices. Instead, spend time working out your unique approach based on the goal you have been given, the people you have, and the underlying principles that you hold. (Article) |
 Crystal Hirschorn talks about learnings found by building a culture that embraced failure through Chaos Engineering practices as daily routine, what her teams have learned and adapted for their platforms at Condé Nast International, which currently serves in excess of 220 million unique users every month across the globe. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Lisette Sutherland discusses how to work remotely as though you were in the office with colleagues. (Presentation) |
 Patrick Steyaert explores how to integrate (agile) intuition and (agile) reasoning, and provides a common conceptual framework underlying the very different schools of (agile) thought. (Presentation) |
 Stephanie Gasche tells how they went from a domain name to wireframes to a registered society and an up-and-running website within four months, serving an influx of 130,000 asylum seekers. (Presentation) |
