 In this special year-end wrap-up podcast Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Daniel Bryant, and Charles Humble discuss what we've seen in 2019 and speculate a little on what we hope to see in 2020. Topics include business agility and Teal, what it means to be an ethical engineer, bringing your whole self to work, highlights from QCon and InfoQ during 2019, the rise of Python, and progress in quantum computing. (Podcast) |
 In this eMag we explore some more of the benefits of .NET Core and how it can benefit not only traditional .NET developers, but all technologists who need to bring robust, performant and economical solutions to market. (eMag) |
 Review most important software trends in 2019 and hear our projections on what will matter in 2020 from your peers’ point of view. |
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 Pamela Gay explores how creative software solutions let scientists explore the solar system. She looks at the case of an asteroid - a 500m across rock named Bennu. While unimpressive in size, this orbiting rubble pile has posed a challenge to its mission team: how can a safe spot to get a sample be found quickly on an object with half a million hazards? Answer: use humans as part of the algorithm. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Paul Osman and Ana Medina discuss onboarding teams onto a Chaos Engineering platform, identifying teams that are ready to do GameDays and creating feedback loops to measure resilience. (Presentation) |
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 Jason Scott discusses the status and the future of the Internet Archive. (Presentation) |
 Steve Klabnik goes over the deep details of how async/await works in Rust, covering concepts like coroutines, generators, stack-less vs stack-ful, "pinning", and more. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Nickolas Means talks about the tools that GitHub provides for Open Source maintainers to improve the safety and security of the software supply chain at the source, as well as how to leverage work to make your own codebase more secure. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 The Spring Cloud Hystrix Project was built on top of the similarly-named Netflix project. The latter has recently been placed into maintenance mode, leaving Java developers wondering where to migrate to. The Resilience4j project aims to fill that gap and provide continuity for cloud native Java projects. (Article) |
 Mark Heckler discusses and demoes reactive and highly scalable microservices built with Project Reactor using RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and Spring Cloud Stream. (Presentation) |
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| Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the release of .NET Core 3.1 on their development blog, together with ASP.NET Core 3.1 and EF Core 3.1. The new releases are mostly composed of fixes and refinements over their previous version (3.0). However, these are long-term supported (LTS) releases, which means they will be supported for at least three years. (News) |
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 Kilian Valkhof discusses the process of making an Electron app feel at home on all three platforms: Windows, MacOS and Linux, making devs aware of the pitfalls and how to avoid them. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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| For the last two years, Walmart engineers have been steadily integrating React Native into their mobile development tool chest. Instead of aiming for a pure React Native app, they chose to deliver a hybrid app leveraging the best of native and React. (News) |
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 Marcin Grzejszczak and Olga Maciaszek-Sharma discuss how Netflix has frozen certain projects running on Spring Cloud and moved to new ones. (Presentation) |
 Tom Martin and Sam Reed show how to set up automatic service discovery with Eureka, some auto scaling problems of microservices, how to configure Prometheus and Grafana to gather and show metrics. (Presentation) |
 Dilleswara Anupoju discusses lessons learned building apps in a distributed environment. (Presentation) |
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 The book Building Digital Experience Platforms by Shailesh Kumar and Sourabhh Sethii describes methods, techniques, and practices for using digital experience platforms (DXP) and provides a digital transformation case study from a banking application. (Article) |
 There is a widespread belief that rules, structure and processes inhibit freedom and that organizations that want to build a culture of autonomy and performance need to avoid them like the plague. In this article, we want to debunk that myth. Nurturing a culture of freedom and responsibility at scale is an organizational design problem. (Article) |
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 Pete Young shares how, in two years, a single metric focus resulted in a 7% increase in first time delivery and usage of services to drive this outcome increased over 400-700%. (Presentation) |
 Mike McGarr explores the essence of organizational culture and how it impacts our work. He talks about the microcultures that can exist within an organization that provide layers of influence in our lives and job satisfaction. (Presentation with transcript included) |
