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 Jan Forrslow discusses Fog Computing, Active Grids, and how an IoT network can become an Active Grid by using Fog Computing. (Presentation) |
 Illia Polosukhin keynotes on TensorFlow, introducing it and presenting the components and concepts it is built upon. (Presentation) |
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 LinkedIn’s hyper-growth placed strains on the organization’s infrastructure. A new release model was instrumental to scale and led to increased code quality, security, and member satisfaction. (Article) |
 This article explores the Continuous Delivery journey at MyHeritage, from painful, time-consuming manual releases, to a fully automated deployment pipeline. (Article) |
 Dustin Huptas compares private infrastructure with cloud IaaS. PaaS, serverless, considering pros and cons and discussing cases where either model makes sense. (Presentation) |
 David Vorick talks about the need for distributed/decentralized storage, real life usecases for distributed storage systems, dealing with data loss in a distributed system, and gives a brief overview of IPFS and Sia, building on top of distributed storage systems. (Presentation)
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 David Nolen examines the benefits and tradeoffs associated with creating a language based on an existing runtime, with a special focus on the Clojure and ClojureScript projects. (Presentation) |
 Josh Schwartz takes a look at the real tactics, with examples, used to compromise and backdoor seemingly secure products by exploiting the humans and systems that create them. (Presentation)
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| At QCon New York John Chapin presented "Fearless AWS Lambdas", and not only argued that the JVM is a good platform on which to deploy serverless code, but also provided guidance on extracting the best performance from Java-based AWS Lambda functions. (News) |
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| Microsoft has released the second preview of .NET Core 2.0. Several changes have been made to increase ease-of-use for developers, but what may be most important is the ability to reference .NET Framework libraries from .NET Core code. Joining these improvements are bug fixes and several additions to its WCF support. (News) |
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 GraphQL and React are two Facebook technologies that have grown up together. In this article, Shane Stillwell shows how GraphQL, a strongly-typed JavaScript-based language, helps developers build relationships with their data and improves marshaling across service boundaries. GraphQL is extensible, works alongside REST, and can be implemented in any back-end software solution. (Article) |
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 The fragmentation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the lack of interoperability prevent the emergence of broadly accepted IoT ecosystems. The BIG IoT (Bridging the Interoperability Gap of the IoT) project aims to ignite such an ecosystem (Article) |
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 This article examines what businesses look for when considering blockchain’s role in their organization and how the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Composer can help application developers easily create compelling blockchain solutions for the enterprise. (Article) |
 David Rook talks about the Riot Games Application Security program and how they define Application Security at Riot, how they've grown to meet the demands of their fast paced engineering organization, why they've hired software engineers into their team and the tools they've developed to help Rioters globally build fun and safe experiences for their players. (Presentation)
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 Paul Sztorc talks about why the oracle problem is so hard (specifically, the historical evolution of failures, from API, to clearnet website, to darknet website, to multisig escrow, to judicial "competition", to Ethereum/Augur, and why they fail), and the basics of blockchain ("blockchain as immortal software", ledger "rents", revenge of "the idea guy"). (Presentation)
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 Jeremy Rand talks about Namecoin and Monero, the advantages to alternate blockchains, and risks of using chains that are not as secured or are merge mined. (Presentation)
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 Peter Todd answers the questions: why use Bitcoin over other blockchains, what is safe, future proof ways to peg data to Bitcoin's blockchain and what is Bitcoin script, and how it can be used. (Presentation)
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 Arnaud Lauret discusses REST vs. GraphQL, comparing their strengths and weaknesses, suggesting evaluating both before making a decision. (Presentation) |
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 Agile Transformation is much harder than most organisations envisage, and can require a major cultural change for the transformation to be effective. Too often we make superficial changes but continue the same behaviour with minor changes to processes to appear agile. But without a change in mindset we fail to see the true impact an Agile Transformation can really have. (Article) |
 This article explores how Computest followed their mission towards a self-managing organization. It explains the key drivers, how the journey got started, why Computest focused on value streams and how Computest aligned roles and responsibilities and applied Kanban to operationalize ideas. It also shares the lessons learned so far and discusses what this means for the next steps to be done. (Article) |
 Overall job satisfaction levels at some of the world’s biggest tech companies have been charted by Payscale against various employee metrics, including early career pay rate, average workforce age and total years of industry experience. The results make for interesting reading – but do they say more about the tech industry itself, or the millennials flocking to work in it? (Article) |
 Katy Saulpaugh discusses how to approach reorganizations for Agile teams and minimize the pain using change management techniques. (Presentation) |
 Oleksii Fedorov advises on creating mobile applications, what practices to use and what to avoid. (Presentation) |
