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 Ben Sigelman is the CEO of Lightstep and the author of the Dapper paper that spawned distributed tracing discussions in the software industry. Sigelman discusses with Wes Reisz observability, and his thoughts on logging, metrics, and tracing. The two discuss detection and refinement as the real problem when it comes to diagnosing and troubleshooting incidents with data. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Doug Kirkpatrick at the Agile People conference in Stockholm, Sweden, about what self-management actually means for the people in an organisation. (Podcast) |
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 In this article, business and technical leaders will learn methods to assess whether their organization is data-driven and benchmark its data science maturity. They will learn how to use the Healthy Data Science Organization Framework to nurture a data science mindset within the organization. (Article) |
 Amey Banarse and Karthik Ranganathan introduce and demo YugaByte DB, a large scale DB, highlighting distributed transactions with global consistency. (Presentation) |
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 InfoQ interviewed Elton Stoneman about the significant changes in the 2nd edition of Docker on Windows, typical use-cases, benefits of CI/CD Pipelines, containerization, guidance, operations, and collaboration between Microsoft and Docker. (Article) |
 Modernising applications by decoupling them from the underlying infrastructure on which they are running can enable innovation, reduce costs, and improve security. An API Gateway can decouple applications from external consumers, and a service mesh decouples applications from internal consumers. (Article) |
 Joshua Kirchmeier and Garrett Klok discuss the techniques used to achieve DFARS compliance within AWS GovCloud, and troubleshooting challenges faced with using PCF in a limited connectivity IaaS. (Presentation) |
 Larry Maccherone discusses the security tool categories that have traditionally been used by development teams, and shows how to evaluate DevSecOps tools. (Presentation) |
 If you want to be the one to answer that question at work read these 11 minutes report. It covers the latest trends and movements in the space: Kubernetes, Chaos Engineering and more. |
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 Dmitry Kandalov explains what coroutines are, how they differ between programming languages and how to use coroutines for fun and profit. (Presentation) |
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| Google announced the release of a new open-source Java logging framework called Flogger that improves upon existing logging frameworks by reducing the cost of disabled log statements, increasing overall readability, and allowing extensibility. (News) |
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 Alfus Jaganathan and Poornima Varadhan discuss strategies, frameworks, libraries, tools and techniques applied to re-platform legacy .NET applications with a 12/15 factors, using modernized techniques. (Presentation) |
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| A simple, yet entertaining and useful for educational purpose application of machine learning was recently made available on Fritz's HeartBeat Medium publication. Google's machine learning TensorFlow.js library is leveraged in the browser to teach the computer to play the Chrome Dinosaur Game. (News) |
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| JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.3.30. This version is mainly a new bug fix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.3. Kotlin 1.3.30 brings Kotlin/Native and KAPT improvements, support for more operations for unsigned types and arrays, debugging improvements on IntelliJ IDEA, and more. (News) |
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 Ram Mehta talks about Fresh EBT - a mobile app used by over a million households each month to manage their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. The Fresh EBT app serves as a pragmatic example of consumer software that seeks to improve government services from outside the government. The talk focuses on the challenges involved with scaling the app nationwide. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Mental health is heavily stigmatized in our society. People living with mental illness do not want to be treated differently; they may need help and accommodation in specific instances. Nara Kasbergen shares her volunteer work for Open Sourcing Mental Illness: a distributed, volunteer-based, non-profit organization that seeks to change the way we talk about mental health in the tech industry. (Article) |
 The book Inviting Leadership by Daniel Mezick and Mark Sheffield explores how using an invitational leadership approach can increase employee engagement and self-organization. It shows how changing the decision-making process influences culture and can lead to lasting change. (Article) |
 Dorothy Graham discusses several testing blunders, including: Testing-Tools-Test, Silver Bullet, Automating the Wrong Thing, Who Needs GPS, How Hard Can It Be, and the Stable-Application Myth. (Presentation) |
 Olga Heismann talks about using Markov Chains.to forecast the progress of a project with multiple entry points. (Presentation) |
 Jon Terry explains the project model, and why it used to make some sense, and compares it to the product, solution, or value stream model, that is in his opinion an increasingly common modern approach. (Presentation) |
 Charles Humble discusses how to decide if remote working is desirable, common pitfalls of remote working and mitigations, techniques for managing remote teams, plus some general advice. (Presentation) |
 Paul Gerrard proposes a model of the thought processes that every tester uses which maps directly to the BDD way, helping practitioners understand the BDD collaboration and test process. (Presentation) |
