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An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the “architecture and design” (A&D) topic evolving in 2019, which focuses on fundamental architectural patterns, framework usage, and design skills. (Trend Report) |
In this podcast, Megan Cartwright discusses why their customers need a more personal experience and how they are using technology to help. She also talks about how the team got to an early MVP and then how they did the same for getting to an early machine learning MVP for product recommendations. Cartwright is the director of data science for the personalized bra company ThirdLove. (Podcast) |
In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Seb Rose, the dispassionate developer, and one of the principals of Cucumber Limited about his work at Cucumber, the Cyber-dojo charity, designing a robust certification program and involving testers in code reviews. (Podcast) |
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Zbigniew Wojna discusses the development of neural architectures for 2D imagery problems in big scale, including analysis of different upsampling methods and mechanism for text recognition and review. (Presentation) |
Chris Busch and Raj Sivaraj overview the foundation data collection needs of Mastercard, and how data is collected and provided back to product teams with critical expense data for show-back. (Presentation) |
Manju Vijayakumar talks about Einstein Assistant - an AI Voice assistant for enterprises that enables users to "Talk to Salesforce". She goes through the high-level architecture and workflow starting from Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) on device to using NLP for identifying entities and intents in a single dialog conversation text. (Presentation with transcript included) The next QCon is QCon London, March 4-6, 2019. Join us! |
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Cornelia Davis and Mukesh Gadiya examine the benefits of containerization, the role of infrastructure virtualization, discussing containers, pods, controllers, policies and more. (Presentation) |
Joshua Sheppard shows how to deploy containers, building up a mini cluster one Kubernetes component at a time, explaining what happens to the YAML files involved. (Presentation) |
Eric Johnson and Oleksandr Slynko discuss various Kubernetes primitives to achieve high availability and some of the problems that could be encountered with Kubernetes clusters. (Presentation) |
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Joel Tosi walks through a simple grouping for metrics where the groupings not only call out the metrics, but their limits, and help guide to better metrics. (Presentation) |
We take a look back at the QCon highlights in 2018, including QCon London, QCon.AI, QCon New York and QCon San Francisco. (eMag) |
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IBM's fourth quarter 2018 release of Open Liberty 18.0.0.4 features full support for MicroProfile 2.1, reactive extensions, and connection pool metrics. Kevin Sutter, MicroProfile and Jakarta EE (EE4J) architect for WebSphere at IBM, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release and what we can expect from Open Liberty in 2019. (News) |
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Lauren Tan talks about type systems in TypeScript, Flow, and GraphQL that can improve confidence and help ship less bugs to production every day. She starts with why: a practical look at what the benefits are from embracing types. Then, a gentle introduction to the ideas behind them. Finally, she explores the possibilities of a type system over the network. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Jenna Zeigen covers the state of the art in front-end performance optimizations— from minimizing file size to preventing thrashing— digging into the way the internet and browsers work to explain why each of these practices is important. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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The latest Xcode 10.2 beta release includes support for Swift 5. In addition to bringing new features at the language and tooling level, this new release produces smaller binary packages for iOS 12.2 by not including the Swift runtime in the app bundle. (News) |
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These dependencies require well-defined and well-tested services. Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Interface Oriented Design (IOD) help achieve this. BDD concentrates on the functionality of the services, which are specified with tests. IOD identifies contractual obligations (e.g. failure reporting) of the services. (Article) |
Vaughn Vernon discusses removing entanglement in legacy and monolithic systems. (Presentation) |
Liel Chayoun and Roi Ezra discuss Intel’s transition to cloud-native and microservices. (Presentation) |
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How can you find out if you’re being successful or heading for a burnout? The only person who can really answer that question is you. A Q&A with Peter Stevens and Maria Matarelli who spoke about success or burnout and personal agility at eXperience Agile 2018. (Article) |
The Evidence-Based Management Guide provides a framework for organizations to measure, manage, and increase the value they derive from their product delivery. The updated version includes a new key value area called Unrealized Value and provides example measures that organizations can use to find their own measures that fit their context. (Article) |
Tilde Ann Thurium shares the story of how she hacked her habits to go from "mouse addict" to "Atom whiz” and dives into researched-backed psychological tips on how to incrementally refactor habits. (Presentation with transcript included) |