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 In this week’s podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Haley Tucker, a Senior Software Engineer on the Playback Features team at Netflix. While at QCon San Francisco 2016, Tucker told some production war stories about trying to deliver content to 65 million members. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast, recorded at the Agile 2016 conference, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to five of the leading minds of Agile Management: Steve Denning, Ray Arell, Todd Little, Hendrik Esser and Steve Holyer. (Podcast) |
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 The panelists discuss the impact machine learning is having on various industries. (Presentation) |
 Aaron Spiegel reviews common scaling techniques for both relational and NoSQL databases, discussing trade-offs of these techniques and their effect on query flexibility, transactions and consistency. (Presentation) |
 Neha Narkhede talks about the experience at LinkedIn moving from batch-oriented ETL to real-time streams using Apache Kafka and how the design and implementation of Kafka was driven by this goal of acting as a real-time platform for event data. She covers some of the challenges of scaling Kafka to hundreds of billions of events per day at Linkedin, supporting thousands of engineers, etc. (Presentation)
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 Filip Hanik and Sree Tumidi talk about the OpenID Connect and OAuth 2 standards, the most popular authentication and authorization frameworks used in native cloud applications today. They share their experiences building the Cloud Foundry User Authentication and Account management project, a production grade OAuth 2 authorization and resource server, as well as an OpenID Connect implementation. (Presentation) |
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 This article focuses on how cultural differences influence collaboration in distributed teams; it shares some virtues and practices which are helpful in bridging the cultural differences between team members. It defines culture and multicultural environment in distributed teams. It looks at questions teams can ask themselves to find out the impact of cultural differences in their day-to-day work. (Article) |
 Matt Sakaguchi addresses the research and the insights of a manager who worked with his own team and others to instill the findings and principles from a pilot program at Google in the real world. (Presentation)
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 JMeter is an indispensable tool for testing load and functionality of multi-tiered applications comprised of web front ends, JVM servers and a wealth of NoSQL and relational databases. This book is the manual that should have been included to help surmount the learning curve. (Article) |
 Ben Lackey and Cornelia Davis start with the use cases for on-demand, dedicated DSE clusters, cover the solution design, and demo the system. The creation of on-demand clusters takes full advantage of BOSH 2.0. Finally, they complete the story by looking at the support that Spring has for Cassandra. (Presentation) |
 Dieter Hubau explains the inner workings of a Spring Boot Starter project and goes over the necessary code for creating one using his recently developed starter for integrating Spring Social with a Redis backed datastore. (Presentation) |
 The authors discuss Spring Boot: development cycle with Devtools, H2 web console, persistent web sessions, managing cache, static resources in web apps, evolving a database schema and more. (Presentation) |
 Simon Ritter starts with a short summary of the key features of both Lambda expressions and streams before moving on to some real world examples of how to use them effectively, including a number of lessons learnt from trying to apply an imperative style of programming when it should have been functional. He finishes off with a quick look at some of the ideas for improvements to streams in JDK 9. (Presentation) |
 Stephane Nicoll and Yann Cebron talk about how to navigate, edit and perform refactorings across a variety of common Spring technologies. (Presentation) |
 Simon Ritter looks at the fundamentals of how modularity in Java will work. He explains the impact project Jigsaw will have on developers in terms of building their applications, as well as helping them to understand how things like encapsulation of private APIs, which have up until now been visible, will change in JDK 9. (Presentation) |
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| Python is approaching its next major milestone, version 3.6. Expected to be released on December 16, Python 3.6 brings many new features, including faster and more compact dictionaries, improved asyncio, a new file system path protocol, and more. (News) |
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 Bob Duncan reviews the key ingredients of micro-interactions, sharing examples of successful ones and how they've shaped the products, discussing how to add micro-interactions to a workflow. (Presentation) |
 Connor Tumbleson discusses the Android package and examines how it can be explored in order to extract information while looking at some of the products and tools used by both sides. (Presentation)
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 To meet both consumer demand and expectations, companies must develop for both mobile and web. Developing for both platforms is complex, but with the right tools and framework, the process is a little easier. In this article, TJ VanToll shows how to use NativeScript and Angular to develop cross platform apps. (Article) |
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| Visual Studio has a new website for extensions. Known as Visual Studio Marketplace, this site aggregates extensions for the Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Team Services. (News) |
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 Keith Adams takes a tour of Slack's infrastructure, from native and web clients, through the edge, into the Slack datacenter, and around the various services that provide real-time messaging, search, voice calls, and custom emoji. (Presentation)
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 Josh Evans talks about the chaotic and vibrant world of microservices at Netflix. He starts with the basics, the anatomy of a microservice, the challenges around distributed systems, and the benefits. Then he builds on that foundation exploring the cultural, architectural, and operational methods that lead to microservice mastery. (Presentation)
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