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Vert.x, White Box AI, DockerCon, Rust, Java EE, Oracle Fn, Visual Studio Azure Application Insights, lectron, AnitaB.org Awards

AMA: SQL Over Streams, Ask the Experts @QCon San Francisco

Queries over streams are generally "continuous," executing for long periods of time and returning incremental results. Yet operations over streams must have the ability to be monotonic. New Generation of Stream Processing Engines has added support for Stream SQL. Join us in this AMA / panel discussion with leaders evolving & shaping the space at QCon San Francisco this November.
 

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Pavneet Saund on Practical Empathy

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Pavneet Saund about his ideas on making empathy a superpower and effective team leadership. (Podcast)

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Julien Viet on the Newly Released Vert.x 3.5.0 and Plans for Vert.x 4.0

In this podcast, QCon Chair Wesley Reisz talks to Julien Viet.  Viet is the project lead for Vert.x and a principal engineer at RedHat having taken over as project lead for Vert.x from Tim Fox in January 2016.  They talk about the newly released Vert.x 3.5.0, and the plans for Vert.x 4.0. (Podcast)

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Big Data and Big Money: The Role of Data in the Financial Sector

When we consider the 3Vs of big data— volume, velocity, and variety—it is hard to think of many sectors whose requirements fit so nicely into the guidelines at finance. (Article)

Improving Both the UX and DX with White Box AI

Cloderic Mars discusses using white box AI to improve user and developer experience. (Presentation)

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Alluxio: The Journey Thus Far and the Road ahead

Gene Pang introduces Alluxio, an open-source memory-speed virtual distributed storage system, integrations with other storage systems and some of the improvements they are working on. (Presentation)

Defining Cloud Native: A Panel Discussion

What is "cloud-native", why should you care, and how can your team adopt this way of delivering software? InfoQ gathered three industry experts to debate the topic. (Article)

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Wobserver: Easy to Integrate Monitoring and Debugging

Ian Luites introduces wobserver, discussing the background of the project and showing how to mount it into a Phoenix application, hook it up to Prometheus, and deploy it behind a load balancer. (Presentation)

Shaving the Golden Yak

Jessica Kerr provides reasons to spend some time smoothing the development experience, and clues for where to spend that time in ways that help the entire team. (Presentation)

Lessons Learned from Fighting Nation States in Cyber Space

Dmitri Alperovitch covers important lessons learned from the hack of the DNC incidents like nation-state intrusions from China, Iran, North Korea, Russia and other countries. Alperovitch shares his thoughts on the path ahead towards a safe and secure Internet for the future generations. (Presentation)
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Real-Time Metrics Computations to Power Video Quality of Delivery Resilience

Sudhi Nada shows how Conviva deals with video delivery issues, illustrating the business impact of video delivery failures and how to build resiliency into such systems based on real-time metrics. (Presentation)

Bots & Messaging Application APIs

Jasmine Anteunis discusses integrating bots with messaging applications. (Presentation)

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Oracle Joins Serverless Race with Open Source Fn Project

Oracle has released Fn, a new open-source, cloud-agnostic, serverless platform. While supporting "any programming language", it initially launched with extensive Java capabilities and a JUnit test framework. Fn comprises of four main components: Fn Server, Fn FDKs, Fn Flow and Fn Load Balancer. Written in Go, Fn Server is the platform that runs the code. (News)

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Visual Studio 15.4 Released, Increasing Multiplatform Support

The 4th update to Visual Studio 2017 has been released by Microsoft, and continues the company’s commitment to supporting .NET Standard 2.0 and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. .NET Standard 2.0 support is an important part of Microsoft’s strategy for promoting cross-platform application development and code reuse. (News)

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Electron Apps, from Start to Production

Paul Betts discusses Electron, a platform for writing cross-platform Desktop apps, explaining how to start writing apps, and how to integrate web UI libraries and languages. He goes over some need-to-know things about how Desktop apps are distributed on different platforms, and shows how to set up an automatically updating packaged app. (Presentation)

Mixing in React

Rushaine McBean talks about how she integrated React into an existing app with its own semi structure. She also talks about the lessons learned, improvements made along the way, and front-end standards that emerged for their codebase. (Presentation)

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Interpreting the Language of Devices in the Wild

Brad Unruh discusses machine instrumentation, data capture and interpretation approaches from a leading supplier of infrastructure and industrial machinery. (Presentation)

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Serverless Architectures

Rafal Gancarz introduces the core concepts around Serverless/FaaS and describes architectural and operational aspects of distributed systems built on top the serverless stack with application on AWS. (Presentation)

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Customize Your Agile Approach: Select Your Agile Approach That Fits Your Context

This is the first in a series of articles that will help you think about how you might want to customize your agile approach for your context. This article explores how to make agile approaches work for you: your work, your team, and your organization. It's about understanding the difference between iteration, flow, and cadence and when you might consider each to customize your agile approach. (Article)

Q&A on the Book Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile

The Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile explains how disciplined agile works at different levels in the organization. It provides a framework with principles and practices to help you to streamline information technology and business processes in a context-sensitive manner. (Article)

Saving the Plane from a Nosedive

Alexander Logan discusses assumptions and the importance of considering them seriously before making decisions, sharing a story of a wrong decision of his that almost killed a company. (Presentation)

Better: Fearless Feedback for Software Teams

Erika Carlson introduces effective feedback, with strategies for giving, receiving, and processing feedback, and the challenges and rewards of using feedback as a tool to improve team performance. (Presentation)

Lean Business Agility

Klaus Leopold shows how to establish business agility in a Lean way, presenting a case where he improved organizational agility of about 80 teams without bothering teams in their daily work. (Presentation)

Flip Change Management, Let’s Change by Adventure

Andy de Vale makes a case to approach change differently, challenging listeners to find an approach to change that celebrates and amplifies what makes us human. (Presentation)

Deep Listening: Creating Conversational Agility

Brian Branagan explains how to decrease our dissatisfaction with “not being heard” simply by changing the way we listen. He also talks about the latest developments in the neuroscience of listening, how to shift from “Listen to” to “Listen for” and the three key moves for Conversational Agility. (Presentation)