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 As 2020 is coming to an end, we created this article listing some of the best posts published this year. This collection was hand-picked by nine InfoQ Editors recommending the greatest posts in their domain. It's a great piece to make sure you don't miss out on some of InfoQ's best content. (Article) |
 2020 is probably the most extended year we will see in our whole life. A vast number of people have spent the most significant part of the year at home. Remote work went from "something to be explored" to teams' reality around the world. In this eMag, we would like to pack in some of the most relevant InfoQ content of 2020. And there is no way to avoid content on remote activities. (eMag) |
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 In this article, the author discusses the importance of using synthetic data in data analytics projects, especially in financial institutions, to solve the problems of data scarcity and more importantly data privacy. (Article) |
 In this article, the author discusses the importance of Relevancy Score for developing Search Engine solutions and how to calculate the relevancy score using Elasticsearch's similarity module. (Article) |
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 Ranjib Dey overviews the categorization of outages that happened at Uber in the past few years based on root cause types. (Presentation) |
 Marco Coulter discusses the capabilities of chaos engineering beyond resiliency to support capacity optimization. (Presentation) |
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| Google recently announced phasing out its Android Things IoT platform. New projects will not be accepted after January 5, 2021, and the Android Things console will be turned down for all projects in 2022. (News) |
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| GraalVM offers integration support to bridge between COBOL and Java, adding support for many languages under a single runtime. (News) |
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 The book C# 9 and .NET 5 by Mark Price is a practical guide on developing .NET cross-platform applications. The book is concise, implementation-oriented, and each subject is presented with a hands-on walkthrough. The author covers the main types of applications that can be built with C# 9 and .NET 5. InfoQ reviewed the book and interviewed Price on the goals and contents of the book. (Article) |
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| The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 4.1, which includes powerful template literal types, key remapping of mapped types, and recursive conditional types. (News) |
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| Announced in 2017, AWS Greengrass aims to ease the task of setting up and managing IoT systems. Version 2.0 adds new developer capabilities, including revamped command-line interface and support for adding and removing pre-built components. Additionally, its edge runtime has been open sourced and is now available on GitHub. (News) |
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 Wes Reisz moderated a roundtable with Leif Beaton (NGINX senior solutions architect), Yan Cui (independent AWS and serverless consultant), and Nicky Wrightson (Skyscanner principal engineer), discussing topics around the microservices approach. The panelists shared their experience on it, analyzing the impact of microservices, challenges in dealing with operational complexity, and alternatives. (Article) |
 Adrian Cockroft talks about how to build robust systems by being more systematic about hazard analysis, and including the operator experience in the hazard model. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Using the familiar “patterns” approach, the book Retrospectives Antipatterns by Aino Vonge Corry describes unfortunate situations that can sometimes happen in retrospectives. For each situation, described as an antipattern, it also provides solutions for dealing with the situation; this can be a way to solve the problem directly or avoid similar problems in future retrospectives. (Article) |
 The Scrum Guide has been updated to make it less prescriptive, using simpler language to address a wider audience. These changes have been done to make Scrum a “lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems”. An interview with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland about the changes to the guide. (Article) |
 Law, science, and engineering offer three distinct approaches to logical thinking. Each is important in different circumstances, and in practice, we can use all three. How much understanding and control do you have of a situation? Do you simply need to follow the rules? Are you operating in a world of uncertainty and volatility? Or are you building and defining the rules as you go along? (Article) |
 Antony Marcano discusses using User Stories, tasks and features in disguise. to release more value, sooner, with more flexibility and without dependencies. (Presentation) |
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