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 The most significant impact on culture and methods in 2021 is the disruption caused by COVID-19. We look at what's needed for good remote work and the impact of bad remote work, how management practices are evolving, and the importance of people skills for technologists. Paying attention to ethical issues, diversity and inclusion, tech for good, employee experience and psychological safety are important. (Trends Report) |
 In this podcast, the Culture and Methods editorial team discuss their views on the current state and trends in the Culture and Methods area that they monitor. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Dr Phil Winder, CEO of Winder Research, sits down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. They discuss: the history of Reinforcement Learning (RL); the application of RL in fields such as robotics and content discovery; scaling RL models and running them in production; and ethical considerations for RL. (Podcast) |
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 In this article, author Monte Zweben discusses data science architecture, containerization, and how new solutions like Feature Store can help with the full lifecycle of machine learning processes. (Article) |
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 Implementing network edge 5G technologies can offer many advantages, but also presents challenges for your team. In this article, we’ll take a look at the promise and risk of network edge 5G models. (Article) |
 In this article, we will review the concept of a blockchain node, the problems a developer might face while deploying a node, and the working principle of Blockchain-as-a-Service providers. (Article) |
 Marc Brooker discusses defining and designing for availability that takes people into account, including examples of massive-scale cloud systems designed using these principles. (Presentation with transcript included)
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| Jamie Birch recently announced Svelte NodeGui, a framework for developing desktop applications on Windows, Linux, MacOS. A lighter alternative to Electron, Svelte NodeGui lets developers write their applications with the Svelte front-end framework and compiler, the Qt widget toolkit, and a subset of HTML and CSS. (News) |
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 In this article, we will learn how to write clean integration tests for Quarkus applications. We will see how we can write simple and clean tests for the following scenarios: a mail client, security with RBAC, testing using containers, and rest clients. (Article) |
 Tobi Ajila explains the advances being made in Project Valhalla to improve Java's memory density by making it easy to create compact, cache efficient data structures. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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| The recent release of Chrome 88 includes significant updates to the Chrome DevTools that include improved network debugging, experimental CSS Flexbox debugging tools, improved frame details view, new WASM debug capabilities, and general performance improvements. (News) |
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| A major update to Google's cross-platform UI Toolkit, Flutter 2 stabilizes Web support and adds new platforms, including foldable, embedded, and desktop. Alongside it, new Dart 2.12 brings null safety and Dart FFI. (News) |
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 When designing cloud-native systems, it is important to accommodate freedom to change deployment strategy, from FaaS to containers or VMs, for potentially significant savings on cloud bills. (Article) |
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 AI has become more than just a tool; it is now meriting consideration as an additional teammate. While this increases a project’s efficiency and technical rigor, AI teammates bring a fresh set of challenges around social integration, team dynamics, trust, and control. This article provides an overview of sociotechnical frameworks and strategies to address concerns with using machines as teammates. (Article) |
 The book Manager in Shorts by Gal Zellermayer describes principles of management in hi-tech, focusing on people, processes, and culture. It provides tips and ideas that readers can use to develop their leadership skills and learn how to manage technical people and become an exceptional manager. (Article) |
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