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Peter Bourgon on Gossip, Paxos, Microservices in Go, and CRDTs at SoundCloud

QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Weaveworks' Engineer, Peter Bourgon. Bourgon discusses his work at Weaveworks, discovering and imlemeting CRDTs for time-stamped events at Soundcloud, building Microservices in Go with Go Kit and the state of package management in Go. (Podcast)

Matt Sakaguchi on the Key to High Performing Teams at Google

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Matt Sakaguchi about his talk at QCon San Francisco 2016 and the research Google has done on what makes effective teams. (Podcast)

TOP Data Science NEWS HEADLINES

Introduction to Machine Learning with Python

This series will explore various topics and techniques in machine learning, arguably the most talked-about area of technology and computer science over the past several years. We’ll begin, in this article, with an extended “case study” in Python: how can we build a machine learning model to detect credit card fraud? (Article)

I Can't Believe It's Not a Queue: Using Kafka with Spring

Joe Kutner talks about Kafka and where it fits in a Spring app and how to make it do things message queues simply can't. (Presentation)

Streaming Live Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem

Oleg Zhurakousky discusses the Hadoop ecosystem – Hadoop, HDFS, Yarn-, and how projects such as Hive, Atlas, NiFi interact and integrate to support the variety of data used for analytics. (Presentation)

Scaling the Data Infrastructure @Spotify

Mārtiņš Kalvāns and Matti Pehrs overview the Data Infrastructure at Spotify, diving into some of the data infrastructure components, such us Event Delivery, Datamon and Styx. (Presentation)
The next QCon is in London, March 6-10, 2017. Join us!

TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

IoT in the Cloud: Build & Unleash the Value in Your Renewable Energy System

Mark Heckler introduces the IoT & Cloud concepts and demonstrates how one necessitates the other. (Presentation)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

Big Fish, Little Fish, Cardboard Box: A Tale of Acquisition, Adjustment and Acceptance

Paula Kennedy talks about the initial fears of acquisition and cultural change made in a company when it is acquired by a bigger-fish company and how hard it is to bring the two company cultures together and ensure that the newcomers feel welcomed and accepted. (Presentation)

Meditation Made Simple

Prakash Raman debunks common myths and explains the science behind meditation and its benefits, the challenges people face, the practical and easy tools useful to experience, the benefits of a life less stressed, more focused, and more productive. (Presentation)
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Maximizing Human Potential

Vivienne Ming discusses ideas about bias and human potential in education and the workplace. Her research and tools explore solutions to map our greater aspirations, as companies and communities, to everyday actions. (Presentation)
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The Seven Righteous Fights

Heidi Waterhouse discusses seven issues to tackle during project development: Localization, Security, Extensibility, Documentation, Affordance, Acceptance, Accessibility. (Presentation)

Fragile Agile: Coaching a Tired Team

Anna Obukhova describes what changes when a team is tired, how to estimate the stage of exhaustion, and what to do to improve the process and produce steady results. (Presentation)

How We Work Remotely at Particular Software

Don Belcham shares from his experience working for a company where everybody works remotely, what they do about meetings, how collaboration works, and how it compares with a regular company. (Presentation)

Ever wondered how big companies such as Google, Github or Ocado are enginnering their teams?

Learn how to motivate and support your team from real life practitioners, that have been confronted with the same problems you might have. Listen to the Engineering Culture Podcast! (Podcast)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

Building Reactive Applications with Akka Actors and Java 8

Akka and Java 8 make it possible to create distributed microservice-based systems that just a few years ago were the stuff of dreams. Actor based systems enable developers to create quickly evolving microservice architectures that can elastically scale systems to support huge volumes of data. (Article)

Reactive Streams, j.u.concurrent, & beyond!

Konrad Malawski explains what the word Stream means, then looks at how its protocol works and how one might use it in the real world showing examples using existing implementations. He also peeks into the future, to see what the next steps for such collaborative protocols and the JDK ecosystem are in general. (Presentation)
The next QCon is in London, March 6-10, 2017. Join us!

Instant Security and Scalable User Management in Spring Boot

Les Hazlewood goes beyond the traditional way to secure applications and deep dives into how Spring Security + Stormpath offers an instant user management system for Spring Boot applications. (Presentation)

Spring Data Hazelcast: Fluently Accessing Distributed Repositories

Victor Gamov and Neil Stevenson present using Spring Data for a Hazelcast project, built on the KeyValue module and providing infrastructure components for creating repository abstractions for stores dealing with Key/Value pairs like java.util.Map. (Presentation)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

Hypermedia Myths and Misconceptions

Glenn Block discusses the truth and myth beyond some beliefs: the web was built for hypermedia, there is no REST without hypermedia, hypermedia is the magic cure for all API ills, etc. (Presentation)

First Android Instant Apps Are Available

Google has made available a number of applications as Instant Apps in order to gather user feedback. The SDK is to be made available to all later this year. (News)

Chrome and Firefox Start Warning of Insecure Sites

Starting with Chrome 56 and Firefox 51, browsers will start warning users if they browse a non-HTTPS site that contains a password or credit card input field. (News)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

Image Libraries for .NET Core

.NET Core does not have image processing APIs as part of its standard libraries. The broader community has stepped in to provide several different options for developers to consider for use. (News)

What's Next for .NET?

A lot happened in the last year in the .NET ecosystem. We wanted to know what a handful of experts think so we asked: Richard Lander - Principal Program Manager Lead on the .NET Team at Microsoft, Phillip Carter - Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft; Phil Haack - Engineering Director at GitHub and Miguel de Icaza - Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. (Article)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

Might the Blockchain Outlive Bitcoin?

Crypto-currency remains controversial, and Bitcoin, a leading open source initiative to create an alternative form of currency, is at the center of this controversy. Here, the author provides an update on the state of Bitcoin in particular, and examines the future of crypto-currency in general. (Article)