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Starting your first project with Spring Boot can be a bit daunting given the vast options that it provides. This book will guide you step by step along the way to be a Spring Boot hero in no time. (Mini Book) |
Vaughn Vernon has recently released a new open source project called vlingo. The platform is designed to support DDD at the framework and toolkit level. On today’s podcast, Vernon discusses what the framework is all about, why he felt it was needed, and some of the design decisions made in developing the platform. (Podcast) |
In this podcast recorded at the Agile India conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to John Le Drew about solving technical problems by addressing the people issues. (Podcast) |
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I’ve been a database person for an embarrassing length of time, but I only started working with MongoDB recently. When I was starting out with MongoDB, there are a few things that I wish I’d known about. With general experience, there will always be preconceptions of what databases are and what they do. In hopes of making it easier for other people, here is a list of common mistakes. (Article) |
Harry Trimble discusses creating data services that are simple and effective, explaining how user’s data is used, how automated decisions are made, respecting human’s rights. (Presentation) |
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This Q&A, from the upcoming Chaos Conf event that is running in San Francisco in September, examines the benefits and challenges of chaos engineering. The article also provides emerging good practice, and contains prerequisites, recommendations, and tips for getting started. (Article) |
Jorge Salamero Sanz discusses use case examples on how to make a CI/CD pipeline interact with Docker security tools, and how to prepare for policy violations that happen at runtime. (Presentation) |
Adam Mckaig and Liz Fong-Jones talk about how SREs discover and debug problems at Google during outages, and share real stories about their experiences. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
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Felienne Hermans discusses her research on programming for children, as well as her quest to make programming education for everyone. (Presentation) |
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Pivotal has released version 1.6 of Spring Cloud Data Flow, a project for building and orchestrating real-time data processing pipelines to runtimes such as the Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Kubernetes and Mesos. New features include an app hosting tool, a scheduler for PCF, and an app repository. Mark Pollack, senior staff engineer at Pivotal, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release. (News) |
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Kevin Pilch discusses improvements in VS 2017: performance improvements in startup and solution load, editing, code style, quick fixes, refactorings, unit testing, debugging, deployment, and more. (Presentation) |
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Mozilla recently announced that Firefox will block web trackers by default in a near future. Mozilla plans to releases a series of features through three key initiatives, including improving page load performance, removing cross-site tracking, and mitigating harmful practices. (News) |
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After adding support for WebVR to Firefox, Mozilla is now working on a new API, called WebXR, to bring mixed reality to the Web. Initially announced last year, WebXR aims to replace WebVR in time and to offer a smooth transition for developers using WebVR. (News) |
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Any architect working with large enterprise systems has probably looked for guidance on how to manage the complexity and communicate with various stakeholders. This introductory overview of the TOGAF standard explains the structure of the framework, as well as discusses the benefits of using enterprise architecture to manage complex systems. (Article) |
Bernd Ruecker demonstrates how the new generation of lightweight and highly-scalable state machines ease the implementation of long running services. He shares how to handle complex logic and flows which require proper reactions on failures, timeouts and compensating actions and provides guidance backed by code examples to illustrate alternative approaches. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
Jonas Bonér explores the nature of events, what it means to be event-driven, and how to unleash the power of events and commands by applying an events-first domain-driven design to microservices-based architectures. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
Michele Titolo talks about the basic infrastructure and tooling needs for microservices to be successful. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
Michael Bryzek highlights specific key decisions that very directly impact the quality and maintainability of a microservice architecture, covering infrastructure, continuous deployment, communication, event streaming, language choice and more, all to ensure that teams and systems remain productive and scale. (Presentation) The next QCon is QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018. Join us! |
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The book Emotional Science by Michael K Sahota and Audree Tara Sahota provides an understanding of emotions, which, as stated by the authors, goes beyond current models in psychology. The book provides exercises that can be used to become aware of emotions and learn how to deal with them, which is a practical way of increasing your Emotional Intelligence. (Article) |
You've adopted technologies like SOA and microservices to keep your infrastructure future-proof. So why do you still struggle to innovate? It's not your technology - it's your culture. Rob Zazueta explains how focusing on an agile culture may be more beneficial for your organization than adopting the latest architectural trends. (Article) |
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Applying complex systems thinking, growing the agile mindset through storytelling, and visualizing the interplay; these are some of the things that drove the agile transformation at Ericsson. Having a leadership team that fully embraced agility, an independent group of agile coaches, and doing frequent retrospectives in the leadership team ensured that the transformation stayed on track. (Article) |
Jessie Shternshus shares learnings and unlearnings from her own career, stories from the companies she has worked with, and the techniques she teaches in order to make breakthroughs and forge ahead. (Presentation) |
Judy Rees discusses building trust, developing psychological safety, reducing conflict and misunderstandings while maintaining creative tension, and leading listeners in a practical session. (Presentation) |