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Architecture and Design Trends Report, Facebook Chatbot, Amazon ETL Feature, Moore's Law, Java Text Blocks, Blazor WebAssembly, Data Fetching Patterns, Google and Apple Exposure Notification API , To Microservices and Back Again, Remote Retrospectives

New Trends Report: Software Architecture and Design

If you are unsure what new software architecture and design trends to watch for or want to know emerging best practices, we’ve published the Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report to help you. Find out if you are up to date with the new trends.
 

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Collective Sensemaking and Deliberately Developmental Conversations

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie spoke to Antoinette Coetzee and Jason Knight about Collective Sensemaking and Deliberately Developmental Conversations. (Podcast)

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Obituary: Jan Stenberg

It is with great sadness that we announce that InfoQ editor Jan Stenberg has passed away due to complications from COVID-19. Jan was a well-known writer within the technology space, and was a frequent attendee at conferences held around the globe. He will be deeply missed within the InfoQ community. (News)

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TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Blender, Facebook State-of-the-Art Human-Like Chatbot, Now Open Source

  2. OpenAI Introduces Microscope, Visualizations for Understanding Neural Networks

  3. Audi Releases Autonomous Driving Dataset

  4. Amazon Introduces the New Streaming ETL Feature on AWS Glue

  5. Google Cloud Healthcare API Now Generally Available

Reinforcement Machine Learning for Effective Clinical Trials

In this article, author Dattaraj Jagdish Rao explores the reinforcement machine learning technique called Multi-armed Bandits and discusses how it can be applied to areas like website design and clinical trials. (Article)

You Can AI Like an Expert

Jon McLoone shows that symbolic representation also helps in automating the transition from research experiments to the production deployment of AI services. (Presentation)

Machine Learning on Mobile and Edge Devices with TensorFlow Lite

Daniel Situnayake talks about how developers can use TensorFlow Lite to build machine learning applications that run entirely on-device, and how running models on-device leads to lower latency, improved privacy, and robustness against connectivity issues. He discusses workflows, tools, and platforms that make on-device inference possible. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Chef Infra 16 Released with Resource Partials and YAML Support

  2. Splunk Launches New Release of SignalFx APM

  3. CircleCI Releases API Version 2 with Improved Insights Endpoints

  4. Kong for Kubernetes 0.8 Ingress Controller Released

  5. Q&A with Amazon's VP Kurt Kufeld Regarding Amazon AppFlow

The Modern Edge

This article shares stories of how interesting companies are using edge computing in ways you might not expect to solve real problems and help build a better Internet. (Article)

Day 3: Security Auditing and Compliance

David Zendzian and Steve White discuss how to handle ongoing security requirements running on Cloud Foundry platforms. (Presentation)

Monitoring, Alerting, and Paging: a Three-Part Guide to Incurring Human Costs in Engineering

Matthew Simons discusses ways to mitigate some of the human costs while safeguarding the production systems that keep people employed. (Presentation)

Building a DevSecOps Pipeline around Your Spring Boot Application

Hayley Denbraver looks into the tools, methodology, culture, and process changes to consider so that an organization is ready for the transformation needed for a DevSecOps pipeline. (Presentation)

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55th Anniversary of Moore's Law

April 2020 marks 55 years since Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published 'Cramming more components onto integrated circuits'. For over 50 years Intel and its competitors kept making Moore's law come true, but more recently efforts to push down chip feature size have been hitting trouble with limitations in economics and physics that force us to consider what happens in a post Moore's law world. (News)

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Java Feature Spotlight: Text Blocks

Java SE 13 introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second preview, with minor changes, and is scheduled to become a permanent feature of the Java Language in Java SE 15. In this article Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle, provides a deep-dive into the topic. (Article)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Stack Overflow Migrate Architecture from .NET Framework to .NET Core

Microsoft Releases Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 RC

Earlier this week, Microsoft released Blazor WebAssembly 3.2 RC. This is the last planned preview release of Blazor WebAssembly, and it contains all features expected for its official general availability. The production-ready release is scheduled for sometime in May. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Data Fetching Patterns for a Better User Experience - Joe Savona at React Conf

  2. Optimization Strategies for the New Facebook.com - Ashley Watkins at React Conf

  3. Facebook's CSS-in-JS Approach - Frank Yan at React Conf 2019

Panel: JavaScript - Is the Insanity Over?

Is JavaScript finally ready to make developers happy? Are the days of transpiling really numbered? People seem to be stuck with JavaScript, but the developer experience might just be getting better. (Presentation with transcript included)

Google and Apple Publish Exposure Notification API Draft

Only a few weeks after its initial announcement, the partnership between Google and Apple to provide their mobile OSes with solid foundations for contact tracing applications has reached a key milestone, a preliminary draft of the Exposure Notification API and beta release for iOS. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Architecture Decision Records at Spotify

  2. To Microservices and Back Again - Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith

Panel: Microservices - Are They Still Worth It?

The panelists have moved from the monolith to microservices and in some cases back again. They have strong opinions on monorepos, on operating distributed systems and on the best way to structure an organization to make a success of this architecture. (Presentation with transcript included)

The Value and Purpose of a Test Coach

Introducing business-oriented automated testing can involve a huge cultural change. For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters. In this article we hear from someone living this new role, using Domain Oriented Testing on a daily basis to ensure acceptance tests have full story coverage, and unit tests verify business behavior, not implementation. (Article)

Ideas for Remote Retrospectives that Engage

Retrospectives have been shown to be an important tool for teams to improve their ways of working and increase collaboration. In person, retrospectives are well understood with many approaches and techniques. This article looks at how to carry the practice across when working remotely. (Article)

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Make It Safe! Psychological Safety for You and Your Teams

Steven Limmer talks about the initial management of software and how it evolved to Agile, and then discusses the common issues with “Agile”, and how this has led to failure and mistrust. (Presentation)

Metaphors We Create By

Jabari Bell discusses metaphor and its influence on social consciousness. He talks about how well intentioned social efforts can perpetuate the very structures they claim to dismantle when the dismantlers are ignorant to the metaphorical topology of their ideologies. He uses this insight as a lens to explore ways to create in more socially conscious ways. (Presentation with transcript included)

My Team Is High Performing But Everyone Hates Us

Stephen Janaway tells the story of a high performing team, the highs and the lows and why being part of a high performing team is great, but it’s rarely the utopia that blog posts and books will have people believe. He shares some lessons about how to be part of a team where they have fun, feel supported and are able to do their best. (Presentation with transcript included)

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