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 Wes Reisz talks with the CTO of Bouyant Oliver Gould. Bouyant is the maker the LinkerD Service Mesh and the recently released Conduit. Gould defines a service mesh, clarifies the meaning of the data and control plane, discusses what a Service Mesh can offer a Microservice application owners, and, finally, discusses some of the considerations they took into account developing Conduit. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Cahlan Sharp about the DevMountain schools that teach software development skills in intensive “bootcamp” programs. (Podcast) |
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 At QCon New York, Shriya Arora presented “Personalising Netflix with Streaming Datasets” and discussed the trials and tribulations of a recent migration of a Netflix data processing job from the traditional approach of batch-style ETL to stream processing using Apache Flink. (Article) |
 Stephen Bohlen discusses Microsoft’s Cognitive Services, how to use them, exploring services for Facial Recognition, object detection, NLP, as well as Topic Extraction and Sentiment Analysis. (Presentation) |
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 To successfully design for, implement, and run applications on Kubernetes requires knowledge of primitives, and awareness of design principles and practices. This article provides an overview of Kubernetes and guidance for how to best use it. (Article) |
 Miranda LeBlanc shares from experience implementing CI/CD pipelines in a 100-years-old insurance company. (Presentation) |
 Greg Meyer and Bryan Kelly share lessons learned implementing CI/CD with Concourse and PCF pipelines. (Presentation) |
 Marcin Grzejszczak and Cora Iberkleid discuss the Spring Cloud Pipelines project, starting a new project deployed to Cloud Foundry and verifying if it can be rolled back on production. (Presentation) |
 Matt MacKenny and Jeff Billimek tell the story of how Home Depot scaled their CI/CD pipelines to multiple teams over time. (Presentation) |
 Christy Norman Perez and Christopher Jones discuss creating multi-platform images using Docker; emulating architectures in containers, demonstrating pulling all of this together in a Docker Swarm consisting of workers of different CPU architectures such as arm64, ppc64le, s390x, and x86_64. (Presentation)
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 Chris Varosy discusses strategies for designing data visualizations and dashboards that bring the insight users need to make decisions. (Presentation) |
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 Java 9 and Vert.x microservices are compatible for building applications, as showcased by this example application that implements a minimal, but working CI system. (Article) |
 Ben Hale discusses what goes on during application staging and how Buildpack can help, covering everything from dependency resolution to memory calculation, and integration with marketplace services. (Presentation) |
 Chris Sterling introduces the capabilities provided by Spring Cloud Services and demonstrates how to deploy cloud-native applications to Cloud Foundry. (Presentation) |
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 Scott Addie discusses what’s new in ASP.NET Core 2 - Razor Pages, SPA Templates, Runtime Store, etc. – and how to migrate an application from 1.x to 2.0. (Presentation) |
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 Richard Feldman discusses writing an entire responsive, performant, accessible, web app without knowing JavaScript, HTML, or CSS. (Presentation) |
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 While iOS updates can be usually installed on all supported devices the day they are released, Android updates are annoyingly slow to roll out. As a result, fragmentation has been a major problem in the Android world for several years. Project Treble is an attempt to remedy this entire set of problems. This article will introduce its architecture and discuss its chances of success. (Article) |
 This eMag explores the topic of observability in-depth, covering the role of the “three pillars of observability” -- monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing -- and relates these topics to designing and operating software systems based around modern architectural styles like microservices and serverless. Download Now. |
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 Ramki Ramakrishna shares Twitter’s recent experience in applying a technique from machine learning, called Bayesian optimization, to the performance tuning problem. He describes the implementation of a service for continuously optimizing microservices in the data center using this technique. (Presentation)
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 Develop a PAL Schedule to harmonize agile methodologies with static package Go Live dates to enable a visual representation of planned project progress, enable the same methodologies used at an agile sprint level to control the project at a high level, act as a harness for quantifiable and measurable high-level deliverables, coordinate project activities and enrich meaningful communication. (Article) |
 No matter how great your idea is, there are a lot of down-to-earth things which should be considered and carefully planned if you want to found a software company and ensure its survival. Why didn't Youtube's predecessor ever get the success of today's favorite? Why did the right time save Airbnb? To come up with a good idea and make it actually work are two different things. (Article) |
 David Copeland discusses what can be done to be our best self as a remote team member, as well as what people need from their environment, team, and company. It's not about technical stuff—it's the human stuff. How one can be present and effective when not physically there. (Presentation)
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 Rowan Bunning introduces Frederic LaLoux’s consciousness model and presents the characteristics of its four stages. (Presentation) |
 Jeff Williams talks about how to always maintain zero difference between prototype and production versions, treat hardware as a delivery system for software value, identify essential user task, run everyday design sprints and more. (Presentation)
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