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In this podcast, Wes Reisz talks to Matt Klein about Envoy-a modern, high performance, small footprint edge and service proxy. (Podcast) |
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The use of automated decision making is increasing. These algorithms can produce results that are incomprehensible, or socially undesirable. How can we determine the safety of algorithms in devices if we cannot understand them? Public fears about the inability to foresee adverse consequences has impeded technologies such as nuclear energy and genetically modified crops. (Article) |
Sumedh Pathak talks about his team’s journey to create a more modern relational database. He talks about the distributed systems problems they had to solve in order to scale out the Postgres open source database, in order to achieve parallelism and a concomitant increase in performance. He describes the architecture of the distributed query planner, the distributed deadlock detection, and more. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
Shuyi Chen and Fabian Hueske explore SQL’s role in the world of streaming data and its implementation in Apache Flink and covering streaming semantics, event time, and incremental results. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
Tyler Akidau discusses how Apache Beam is simplifying pre- and post-processing for ML pipelines. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
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Jeremy Edberg shows us step by step how he built a security system for his house using the Amazon DeepLens. He goes over how he built and trained the models, and the steps necessary to get the camera making inferences and sending alerts. [video length 10:09 min] (Presentation) |
Anthony Navarro covers a brief overview of the ROS (Robot Operating System) architecture and how we would begin using it on our self-driving car project. [video length 5:51 min] (Presentation) |
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A service mesh provides a transparent and language-independent way to flexibly and easily automate networking, security, and observation functions. This article examines the past, present and future of the Istio service mesh. The near-term goal is to launch Istio to 1.0, when the key features will all be in beta, including support for Hybrid environments. (Article) |
Marcello de Sales discusses how Intuit manages their SaaS configuration with Spring Cloud Config Server. (Presentation) |
Prasad Bopardikar and Colin Stevenson discuss creating Spring Boot apps that can be deployed on PCF on various public clouds. (Presentation) |
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Jenn Strater introduces Spring REST Docs and its test-driven approach to RESTful API documentation. (Presentation) |
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Marcin Grzejszczak and Reshmi Krishna discuss some of the latest features introduced in Spring Cloud Sleuth, showing how to use them to measure latency in a Spring Boot application. (Presentation) |
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The .NET Core CLR team has announced that their next-generation just-in-time compiler RyuJIT is now completely powering the .NET Core platform. This change makes four architectures available (x86, x64, ARM32, and ARM64) to .NET Core developers. Furthermore, all will benefit from a fast modern compiler design. (News) |
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At WWDC 2018 Apple announced ResearchKit 2.0. This release includes performance and UI improvements, support for documentation, community GitHub updates, and several active tasks. (News) |
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If your monolith is tightly coupled and not cohesive, you could split it in order for a business to be more agile. There are a lot of wrong ways that you can do that. They result in the same tightly coupled and non-cohesive monolith, but which is distributed across a network. This article examines how you can align your technical services and business-capabilities. (Article) |
Starting in 2016 BuzzFeed began a re-architecture project moving from a single monolithic application written in Perl to a set of microservices. The main reason for the move was that the Perl application was proving hard to scale, essential given that buzzfeed.com alone serves about 7 billion page views/month. (Article) |
The panelists discuss the current status and future trends in blockchain technologies. (Presentation) |
Howard Chu talks about both naive approaches to leveraging NVRAM, and reasons to avoid those approaches, as well as optimal, proven methods for building systems around persistent memory. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
Tammy Butow shares her experiences using chaos engineering to build resilient systems, when they couldn’t build their systems from scratch. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
Conor Svensson discusses different approaches taken in the Ethereum blockchain for handling failure. He covers the public Ethereum blockchain and the steps taken to ensure a robust execution environment for this massively decentralised computer. He talks about the challenges faced in private consortium network deployments and how the technology had been adapted to service different business needs. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
Michael Maibaum talks about the reality of adapting a complex set of interacting, highly coupled applications to make them more resilient and better able to cope with failure. He discusses how to manage the trade-offs of improving a technology platform while delivering to a business in a hugely competitive environment with ever growing customer demand. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
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The book The Pragmatist's Guide to Corporate Lean Strategy explores how to practically adopt lean enterprise and lean startup concepts to turn your company into a lean agile enterprise promoting business agility. It provides examples from companies that have applied these concepts, describes the strategy, best practices, anti-patterns, and gives insights into lean and agile transformations. (Article) |
This article explains why organisations settle for mediocre results from retrospectives and how a great coach can transform the results by bringing the real issues to the surface and creating an environment where a team can learn to trust each other, deal with conflict and experience extraordinary results. (Article) |
CeeCee O'Connor and Chuck D'Antonio discuss building a compliance engine with Concourse, keeping their teams focused on their application code and minimizing the effort they put into compliance. (Presentation) |
Belinda Waldock tells stories about how Agile adventures beyond the code are changing traditional business practices and delivering a business management model fit for the 21st century. (Presentation) |