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 The JHipster Mini-Book is a guide to getting started with hip technologies today: Angular, Bootstrap and Spring Boot. All of these frameworks are wrapped up in an easy-to-use project called JHipster. This book shows you how to build an app with JHipster, and guides you through the plethora of tools, techniques and options you can use. (Mini-Book) |
 This week's podcast features Simon Brown, well known for his work training software architects. Topics include the differences between a tech lead and an architect, how much documentation is enough, and what that looks like in a continuous delivery environment. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks, about their recent report on the need for Courageous Leadership and her forthcoming book on Evolutionary Architecture. (Podcast) |
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| Google's Noah Fiedel details new programming model for TensorFlow Serving in a stable 1.0 release. Subject matter addresses common challenges with portability, servablility, and reproducibility improvements. (News) |
 We have a bunch of introductory guides, case studies from real companies using it. |
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 On the basis of discussions at the Continuous Deployment Summit, researchers derived 10 adages about continuous-deployment practices. These adages represent a working set of approaches and beliefs that guide current practice and establish a tangible target for empirical validation. (Article) |
 James Wen tells the story of how Spotify’s infrastructure evolved from teams owning and doting on groups of long-running servers to a distinctive separation of business code and value from the underlying machines all of Spotify's services actually run on. He examines how this evolution also changed the way that Spotify developers write code and the vast increase in iteration and shipping speed. (Presentation)
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 Evgeny Poberezkin discusses the evolution of both the definition and implementations of Reactive Programming and how they have been converging in building responsive applications. (Presentation) |
 Aditya Modi and Karthik Ramgopal explore LinkedIn’s original ideas behind API modeling, the challenges they’ve faced, and how they are evolving their modeling strategy over time based on their learnings. They present a use case study of building the templated API behind LinkedIn’s new in-app notification experience. (Presentation)
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| The long awaited Java SE 9.0 is releasing on September 21, 2017, and with it come some major changes, notably Java Platform Modules. (News) |
 Learn more about where its different components are in terms of adoption: Java SE Innovation, Java EE Early Majority and Reactive. |
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| One of the new features in Entity Framework Core 2 is the ability to automatically convert interpolated strings into parameterized SQL. Though designed to avoid problems with poorly written SQL, it is feared that it may actually lead to more SQL injection attacks. (News) |
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| Facebook has decided to change the React license from BSD+Patents to MIT to make it possible for companies to include React in Apache projects, and to avoid an uncertain relationship with the open source community. (News) |
 Put aside one hour and go thru some of the most important trends in software development together with some oldies but goldies presentations. You can choose to watch them or skim thru them using the show notes feature. (Presentation) |
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 David Stewart discusses being successful with open APIs and PSD2. (Presentation) |
 Chris Roche and Christopher Burnett discuss how they extended the Protocol Buffer (PB) IDL to create unified APIs and data models. From validation logic to automatic logging and statistics, PBs allows them to speed up development across Go, Python, and PHP stacks. They also show how they leverage the Envoy proxy to transparently upgrade HTTP/1.1 services to speak gRPC on the wire. (Presentation)
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 Senaka Fernando discusses Open Data: what it is, who uses it, why APIs are important, and how to promote the use of it. (Presentation) |
 Erich Ess discusses technical tools needed to gain information on a complex system and practical approaches to convert that information into an actual understanding of the system. (Presentation)
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 Nathan Herald discusses the possibility to create a distributed system with only one process in Elixir. (Presentation) |
 Michael Bryzek explores what it's like to build quality software with no development, QA, or staging environments. He includes a deep dive into "verification in production" and what it really takes to build software that can safely be tested continuously in production. (Presentation)
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 Author Gojko Adzic has released a book, Humans vs Computers, in which he tells stories about the impact of inflexible automation, edge cases and software bugs on the lives of real people. He explains the common mistakes built into the systems and provides advice on how to prevent these mistakes from being built into our systems in the first place. (Article) |
 The book SAFe Distilled breaks down the complexity of the framework into easily understood explanations and actionable guidance. It’s a resource for acquiring a deep understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework, and how to implement it successfully. (Article) |
 Your experience as a developer doesn’t prepare you for a tech lead role. Listen to Patrick Kua from ThoughtWorks to learn more about growing technical leadership and evolutionary architecture. (Podcast) |
