Through news stories, technical articles, podcasts, and eMags, InfoQ reports on the latest innovations in software development, with the goal of providing information to allow our audience to know what major advancements to keep an eye on over the coming years. (eMag) |
In this special year-end wrap-up podcast Thomas Betts, Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Charles Humble, Srini Penchikala, and Daniel Bryant discuss what they have seen in 2021 and speculate a little on what they hope to see in 2022. Topics explored included: hybrid working, the importance of ethics and sustainability within technology, and multi-cloud architectures. (Podcast) |
In this podcast, the Culture and Methods editorial team discusses their views on the current state and trends in the Culture and Methods area that they monitor. (Podcast) |
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DeepMind open-sourced a dataset and trained model snapshot for Deep Generative Models of Rainfall (DGMR), an AI system for short-term precipitation forecasts. In evaluations conducted by 58 expert meteorologists comparing it to other existing methods, DGMR was ranked first in accuracy and usefulness in 89% of test cases. (News) |
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At re:Invent Amazon announced re:Post, a Q&A service that replaced the AWS Forums and is designed to offer crowd-sourced and expert-reviewed answers to technical questions about AWS. (News) |
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After shortly introducing design patterns at different levels of abstractions, this article will present a few patterns specifically suited to serverless systems and show a POC implementation on AWS. (Article) |
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MicroStream, the JVM data storage engine providing in-memory storage to fully or partially persist and restore Java object graphs, has released version 6.0 featuring added support for Java 17, Spring Boot integration, Deep-copy utility, and the elimination of various bugs. (News) |
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The Angular Mini-Book is a guide to getting started with Angular. You'll learn how to develop a bare-bones application, test it, and deploy it, how to integrate Angular with Spring Boot, and more. (Mini-book) |
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Flutter 2.8 focuses on improving app startup time, reducing memory footprint, and making it easier for developers to profile performance issues. Along with it, Google has announced a new Dart version, Dart 2.15, improving worker isolates, introducing constructor tear-off, and extending enums. (News) |
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Discovering which services need to be optimised to reduce end-to-end latency in a microservices-based system can be challenging because call graphs may be too complicated to read. Uber described an open-source tool called CRISP built to solve this problem by finding the critical paths in these graphs. These paths identify those operations whose optimisation benefits the overall system. (News) |
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Technical debt is not primarily caused by clumsy programming, and hence we cannot hope to fix it by more skilled programming alone. Rather, technical debt is a third-order effect of poor communication. What we observe and label “technical debt” is the by-product of a dysfunctional process. To fix the problem of accumulating technical debt, we need to fix this broken process. (Article) |
This article shares how an experiment evolved into a common practice at the workplace, using an experimental approach with remote ensemble testing to get teammates on our cross-functional team more involved in the testing activities of the jointly created product. This all started in the times of a global pandemic where the entire team was working from home. (Article) |
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Randy Shoup discusses the different ways high-performing engineering organizations gain leverage by specialization and sharing. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Shane Hastie explores what we have learned about creating environments where engineering teams can be at their most effective irrespective of where they work - remotely, in-person or hybrid. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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