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 This eMag on Data-Driven Decision Making provides an overview of how the three main activities in software delivery can be supported by data-driven decision making to increase the effectiveness, efficiency and service reliability of a software delivery organization. (eMag) |
 Wes Reisz and Michael Feathers go back and review the book. The two spend some time reviewing key concepts from the book and then discuss how the techniques can be applied today. The two wrap up with a discussion on what might change in a new version of the book. (Podcast) |
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| Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has published its AI Index annual report. This underlying data for this year's report has been expanded compared to the previous year's, and the report includes several perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on AI research and development. (News) |
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 At QCon London last year, Holly Cummins, innovation leader in IBM Corporate Strategy provided a session titled: Cloud-Native is about Culture, not Containers. In this article, Cummins will discuss the role of culture in cloud-native architecture. Furthermore, she will dive into various topics around cloud-native ranging from its definition to CI/CD and operations. (Article) |
 Manuel Pais discusses how many organizations see Kubernetes as "the" platform, rather than just a technical foundation for a true internal platform. Successful Kubernetes adoption requires thinking about the platform as a product and establishing product-like team structures and interactions to reduce cognitive load on development and other stream teams. Metrics can help guide the journey. (Article) |
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| A recent paper by researchers at GitHub, University of Victoria, and Microsoft delves into developer productivity to propose a new approach to defining, measuring and predicting it. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with the paper lead author, GitHub vice-president of research & strategy Nicole Forsgren. (News) |
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 Monica Beckwith discusses a timeline of their development efforts and Microsoft’s journey into OpenJDK land, a few Arm64 and Windows nuances, their testing and benchmarking. (Presentation with transcript included)
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| Since the The .NET Language Strategy was published in 2017, the general belief in the .NET community was that Visual Basic was effectively a dead language. But Microsoft has been quietly working on extending the life of the language. (News) |
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| The HTTP Archive finalized the Web Almanac 2020, an annual report on the state of the web. The report gathers its conclusions in 22 chapters organized in four sections (e.g, page content, user experience, content publishing and distribution): jQuery is still 80% of the web; CSS Houdini is seldom used; the median website ships 400 KB of JavaScript in 2020, 14% more than in 2019; and many more. (News) |
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| The latest version of React Native adds support for the Hermes JavaScript engine on iOS and moves to React 17. (News) |
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 As agilists, we know the importance of showing our work and getting feedback as early as we possibly can. That feedback guides what we do next. To get what you need to meet the desires of your stakeholders, this article looks at the demo and the feedback part of that session and provides suggestions for creating amazing demo & feedback sessions. (Article) |
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