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 For this Reactive Java emag, InfoQ has curated a series of articles to help developers hit the ground running with a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental reactive concepts, followed by a case study/strategy for mi- grating your project to reactive, some tips and tools for testing reactive, and practical applications using Akka actors. (eMag) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pat Reed of iHoriz about value innovation, adaptive leadership and what’s needed to create real business agility. (Podcast) |
| In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Doug Kirkpatrick, organisational change expert, author and advocate for new ways of working. (Podcast) |
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 This article introduces neural networks, including brief descriptions of feed-forward neural networks and recurrent neural networks, and describes how to build a recurrent neural network that detects anomalies in time series data. To make our discussion concrete, we’ll show how to build a neural network using Deeplearning4j, a popular open-source deep-learning library for the JVM. (Article) |
 Mike Olson presents several use cases where big data is collected and analyzed to gather insights from the automotive, insurance, financial, and other sectors. (Presentation) |
 Scott Clark introduces Bayesian Global Optimization as an efficient way to optimize ML model parameters, explaining the underlying techniques and comparing it to other standard methods. (Presentation) |
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 InfoQ talked with Immuta's Andrew Burt and Steve Touw, to better understand the implications and challenges of the EU's Global Data Protection Regulation, which will come into effect in May 2018. (Article) |
 Adam Wick talks about his team's experience developing CyberChaff, a novel network defense solution with unikernels built into its core and why unikernels made sense for them, and how they talk about unikernels with their customers. (Presentation)
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 A process of identifying key customer interactions with the product. This is a holistic approach to envisioning customer interactions at various touchpoints through service design tools to help organizations to understand, visualize and envision their new or existing customer there by aligning their products. (Article) |
 Based on several decades of experience, we have developed an agile framework for distributed teams. We defined 8 bubbles: Culture, Organization, Product, Team, Architecture, Engineering, Communication and Tools. Each bubble contains questions, virtues and practices to help organize distributed work. In this article, we describe culture and organization. (Article) |
 The book Scaling Teams by Alexander Grosse and David Loftesness provides strategies and practices for managing teams in fast growing organizations. It explores five areas which often pose challenges when organizations need to scale -- hiring, people management, organization, culture and communication -- and gives solutions for recognizing and dealing with those challenges. (Article) |
 Reifer's software sizing survey identifies five commonly used methods for sizing agile projects along with their strengths and weaknesses. Size is used as the basis for measurement and estimation. Stories/story points is the most popular, while function points are used at the project level. Sizing by analogy, proxies, Halstead vocabulary and hybrids are used by others as the situation warrants. (Article) |
 Helen Lisowski introduces the body language field, explaining how to recognize some common behaviors and how to start using it every day. (Presentation) |
 Ted DesMaisons and Lisa Rowland talk about the tools and mindset of improvisation so one can rewire his own circuitry and open up new capabilities in the way he interacts with work, the world etc. They talk about the life hacks that help improvisers meet the world with generosity, boldness and optimism and how performers find opportunity in every obstacle and delight in the unexpected turns. (Presentation)
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 Bernard Traversat discusses JVM enhancements addressing cloud deployment requirements such as G1 GC, segmented code cache, contended locking, and density String. (Presentation)
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 Baruch Sadogursky and Viktor Gamov talk about Java puzzlers - streams, lambdas, monads, Optionals and CompletableFutures. (Presentation)
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 Holly Cummins presents a getting-started-guide to the Internet of Things. What’s needed? How much does it cost? What’s the best way of making an embeddable device talk to the internet? (Presentation) |
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 Components are the building blocks of Angular and every visual element in an Angular application is made with components. When we start breaking components apart into smaller components, we need to make sure they're able to pass data back and forth. That's when proper component communication becomes essential in our apps to keep all of our data in sync. (Article) |
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| With more features being pushed down into less expensive versions, Microsoft is always looking for ways to justify the hefty price tag for Visual Studio Enterprise Edition. New for this year, the headline feature is “live unit testing”. (News) |
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 Microservices have gone from development practices for the select few to something many developers in a range of organisations are embracing. Some believe that technologies that can assist with developing and adopting microservices are ineffective without associated changes within the organisations. We spoke with panelists to get different perspectives on the state of the art with microservices. (Article) |
 Martina Iglesias Fernández discusses Spotify’s approach to documentation through automatic discovery of existing endpoints, service configuration, and deployment information at runtime. (Presentation) |
