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 Following Google's announcement at Google I/O 2017 that Kotlin would be getting first class support on Android, Wesley Reisz spoke to Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer of Kotlin at JetBrains. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast recorded in London, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Colart Miles about leading towards innovative cultures and running startup weekends. (Podcast) |
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 InfoQ Interviews Apache Beam's Frances Perry about the impetus for using Beam and the future of the top-level open source project and covers the thoughts behind the programming model as well as some of the touch-points in integration with other data engineering tools like Apache Spark and Flink. (Article) |
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 Stefanos Zachariadis talks about some techniques for bringing our testing to production. He shows how to sanity check a live system using end-to-end testing, limiting interference with real user interactions and outputs. Finally, he suggests ways to observe and integrate real production data into a continuous delivery pipeline and assert on the validity of the production system's outputs. (Presentation)
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 Rafal Gancarz provides the overview of monitoring capabilities required by system built on the Serverless stack, discussing various AWS services that can be used to deliver such capabilities. He covers everything from metering, logging to tracing, auditing, alerting, and shares tips on how to monitor the spend on the cloud infrastructure, control and adjust provisioned capacity for the resources. (Presentation)
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 In this all-round interview, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij speaks about how GitLab was born, what differentiates it from its competitors, the importance of being an "open" company, how GitLab engineers use continuous integration, what being a remote-only company means, and much more. (Article) |
 Chris Baker overviews the IoT DDoS landscape, providing both a comprehensive mental model for IoT botnets, as well as sharing some insight into recent adaptations to network threat models. (Presentation) |
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| One of the more timely presentations at the 2017 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (ETE) Conference was by Oracle JVM runtime lead Karen Kinnear - Java Futures: Modules and More. Much has happened since her presentation surrounding, namely, the events before and after the May 8, 2017 JSR 376 public review ballot vote. (News) |
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| Microsoft has announced that performance improvements have been made to the runtime and base class libraries in .NET Core. While the performance improvements to ASP.NET Core have received more publicity, these improvements are just as important. Many are based on pull requests from the developer community. (News) |
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| Mozilla has announced their plans to retool MDN, renaming it MDN Web Docs, separating it from the product documentation. Among developers, MDN is known as as one of the go-to places for high quality documentation. Mozilla wants to "solidify MDN as the single best resource for Web docs". (News) |
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 Martjin Walraven discusses building mobile applications with GraphQL. (Presentation) |
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 This article explores ways to implement services which are long running and stretch across the boundary of individual microservices using event based architectures. (Article) |
 Michael Bruns shows for which purposes serverless is a good fit, how it actually works and in which cases it is better to avoid it. (Presentation) |
 The panel discusses the most important trends involving the blockchain today and fields questions from the audience. The experts talk about smart contracts, oracles, sidechains, and what can/cannot (or should not) be done with blockchains. They explore how bitcoin and the blockchain could potentially disrupt entire industries. (Presentation)
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 Peter Lawrey explains the use cases and practicalities for having downstream services consuming all of the state changes of an upstream service in order to provide automated, real-time insight of services. (Presentation)
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 Sarah Wells talks about the FT team that currently has over 150 microservices in production. Wells shares how her team regain control of their inboxes and their time, and offers some tips and tricks: focus on the stuff that matters when it comes to developing microservices, build a system with support in mind, take practical approaches to optimizing alerts and the infrastructure. (Presentation)
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 Daniel Rolls talks about the use of histogram metrics to monitor response times, explains how reservoir sampling can help and shows the trade-offs among reservoir types. Finally, using real-world examples, he illustrates some good and bad practices when monitoring response times. (Presentation)
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 Laura Heritage discusses key aspects - Cloud services and API-led integrations - essential to having success in building a customer experience driven enterprise. (Presentation) |
 Larry Kluger discusses strategies for designing and using APIs to deal with electronic signatures. (Presentation) |
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 Investigating the root causes of customer reported defects will have a great impact on your organization. The best ways to ensure customer satisfaction, lower costs and increase employee engagement is to look inside — you already have the data. At the end, it’s all about continuous improvement. (Article) |
 Methods are our best tool to get great software. But today they put us in method prisons with method wars, reliance on gurus and swings from method to method. How foolish is this? It needs to be stopped. The new Essence standard efficiently stops that path. And, teams get better methods, selected from a practice library and support in their daily work. Executives get forever learning org’s. (Article) |
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 Todd Little discusses the Agile Development Conference whose purpose has been to change the world of work. (Presentation) |
 Isabella Serg considers that the role of HR is not just to implement controls and standards, but rather to drive programs that create adaptability, innovation, collaboration and speed. (Presentation) |
