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 In this podcast, Daniel Bryant discussed with Greg Law, CTO at Undo, the challenges with debugging modern software systems, the need for “hyper-observability” and the benefit of being able to record and replay exact application execution. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Persch of Panthion about supporting open source communities and leading technical teams. (Podcast) |
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| Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning team recently open-sourced their contribution to the ONNX Runtime library for improving the performance of the natural language processing (NLP) model BERT. With the optimizations, the model's inference latency on the SQUAD benchmark sped up 17x. (News) |
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 This article lays out how you build an internal data governance architecture early in the ingestion phase, which enables you to allocate risk to data and identify such data in your systems. You can then protect the data accordingly. The second half of this article lays out various techniques to share data in a privacy-conscious manner. (Article) |
 Luke Hoban looks at some of the leading solutions across various different domains - from serverless to static websites to Kubernetes to infrastructure as code - to highlight areas where developers are starting to take ownership of cloud infrastructure more directly. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Joe Kutner and Emily Casey discuss how to use the pack CLI to go from source to image and patch a pod. (Presentation) |
 Damon Edwards takes a look at the techniques that high-performing operations organizations are using to finally transform how they identify, mobilize, and respond to incidents. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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| IBM has recently discontinued its involvement in Server-side Swift development, which started soon after Swift was open-sourced, and relinquished its leadership in the Swift Server Work Group [SSWG]. InfoQ has talked to IBM's Chris Bailey to learn more about what this may imply for Swift and the Swift community. (News) |
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 Anil Gursel and Rick Hogge share the technical journey for moving PayPal engineers from a JAX-RS imperative programming model to a reactive stack. (Presentation) |
 Monica Beckwith and Anil Kumar discuss Java JDK 8u LTS to the latest JDK 13 major changes as well as impact on performance and responsiveness to backported JDK 11u LTS. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 Chris Woodruff takes a look at database server configurations using MSSQL database profiling tools and understanding Query Execution Plans to get the most out of Entity Framework. (Presentation) |
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| At the Node+JS Interactive conference in Montreal, the OpenJS Foundation announced that the Electron framework has joined the foundation. Electron is a popular cross-platform desktop application development tool based on Node.js and Chromium. (News) |
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| NativeScript new JavaScript runtime for iOS, based on Google's V8 engine, is now in beta, after several months of development. This change should bring reduced app startup time as well as simplify NativeScript's development process. (News) |
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 Michelle Zhang and Maan Mehta discuss two tools they built at Scotiabank -Chassis and AppFactory- to improve developer productivity and experience, and enforce best practices and architecture governance. (Presentation) |
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 The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making. In Product Management, hypotheses can be used to steer the effectiveness of product decisions about feature prioritization. (Article) |
 To focus on outcomes rather than outputs, Meilleurs Agents uses the Objective and Key Results framework to align the whole company on what they want to achieve. Christopher Parola and Nicolas Baron gave a presentation at FlowCon France 2019 where they showed how they implemented the OKR method and turned their product and tech teams into impact teams. (Article) |
 Test automation is crucial in the DevOps world and vitally important even if not taking a DevOps approach and good test automation requires careful thought and design from the architecture onward. Tests need to be fully automated, and that automation needs to be stable; no test cases should fail for reasons other than issues in the system(s) under test. (Article) |
 Amanda Stockwell overviews the key goals and methodologies of user research, and provides tips on how to select the best method, and advice on how to craft research plans the best way to get the desired information. (Presentation) |
 Rob Keefer presents seven principles that promote peace of mind, providing a framework for discovering new processes and practices that will improve team productivity, communication, and performance. (Presentation) |
 Almudena Rodriguez Pardo takes a closer look at various scaling methods, and defines what SAFe is and what it is not, examining some of the key arguments which are polarizing the Agile community. (Presentation) |
 Roser Pujadas discusses maps and how to use Wardley maps as tools to have a social impact. (Presentation) |
 Billy Korando discusses Contract-Driven Development to improve collaborations between teams working on the same project. (Presentation) |
 Christie Wilson describes what to expect from CI/CD in 2019, and how Tekton is helping bring that to as many tools as possible, such as Jenkins X and Prow. Wilson talks about Tekton itself and performs a live demo that shows how cloud native CI/CD can help debug, surface and fix mistakes faster. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Sasha Rosenbaum shows how a CI/CD pipeline for Machine Learning can greatly improve both productivity and reliability. (Presentation with transcript included) |
