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 This year was the 11th for QCon London; it was also our largest London event to date. Including our 140 speakers we had 1435 team leads, architects, and project managers attending 112 technical sessions across 18 concurrent editorial tracks and 16 in-depth workshops. |
 Jean Barmash talks to Wesley Reisz about binary communication protocols like Apache Thrift and Google’s gRPC, as well as code generation and API design. |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor in the Culture & Methods area, spoke to Susan Rose and Aileen Palmer of Grandview Prep about their experiences using Scrum in their school environment. |
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 Eugene Kirpichov describes the theory and practice behind Cloud Dataflow's approach to straggler elimination, as well as the associated non-obvious challenges, benefits, and implications of the technique. (Presentation) |
 Tom Johnson and Gel Goldsby talk about scaling problems they encountered at Unruly, and where extreme programming values led them. Scaling incrementally has raised some interesting challenges in how to deal with growing data volumes, and by trying to deliver value in small steps, they've ended up with some unconventional solutions. (Presentation) |
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 Matt Long talks about some approaches to environment infrastructure testing that his team at OpenCredo have created using Ruby, a language they feel is uniquely positioned to work with both infrastructure and testing. (Presentation) |
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 Aaron Tomb describes the capabilities and operation of some open source tools that allow developers to conclusively and largely automatically determine whether a low-level cryptographic implementation exactly matches a higher-level mathematical specification. He focusses on work they have done to integrate these tools into the continuous integration system of Amazon's s2n implementation of TLS. (Presentation) |
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| There may finally be some light at the end of the long tunnel for Java EE 8. Oracle recently updated the Java community on Java EE 8, which included the latest release schedule and updates on JSR activities. Almost four years in the making, the road for Java EE 8 has not been easy. (News) |
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 C# 7 is a major update with a lot of interesting new capabilities. And while there are plenty of articles on what you can do with it, there's not quite as many on what you should do with it. Using the principles found in the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, we're going to take a first pass at laying down strategies for getting the most from these new features. (Article) |
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| Facebook has released version 15.5 of React which deprecates two features that may trip up developers. To prepare for their removal in version 16, which is set to be a big update, Facebook wants to give plenty of notice to developers about changes they'll have to make to their code. (News) |
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 This article analyzes a variety of forms of collecting feedback in mobile applications from a number of perspectives, including user experience, development, operations, and cost. It also analyzes in which scenario each form of feedback is more applicable, with the purpose of helping mobile application developers or product managers to use the right feedback mechanism and improve their products. (Article) |
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 Matt Heath discusses why Go is suited for a microservices architecture, the language features that make it particularly attractive to high volume, low latency, distributed applications, and how easy it is to adopt into existing systems and organisations. (Presentation) |
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 While lean principles enable us to be effective and innovative everywhere we work, finding automation opportunities across all technology and customer focused processes can unlock bigger potential for repeatedly delivering value to customers. This article shows how Ericsson applied lean principles in IT service delivery for automating manual repetitive tasks to improve quality and efficiency. (Article) |
 The benefits of collaboration and knowledge sharing are well-known, yet any large organisation understands how challenging it is to keep employees feeling connected. The runners up to this year's Spark Award, sponsored by HotelBeds, are Atkins, a design, engineering and project delivery organisation of over 18,000 people who have been experimenting with a mix of communication methods. (Article) |
 Paul Takken and Michael DeAngelo share their learning from using Holacracy, Lean and Scrum while attempting to modernize organizations. (Presentation) |
 Stephen Parry discusses the importance of organizational design and route-map sequencing to create conducive work-climates for Lean and Agile thinkers. (Presentation) |
 Alex Qin tells the true story of her physical transformation, and the surprising and drastic ways in which it affected how she was perceived and treated as a programmer. She also covers the effects of unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, and stereotype threat within our community, and how to make engineering teams and our entire field more inclusive to all, and thusly more successful. (Presentation) |
