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In this series, we explore some of the benefits .NET Core and how it can help traditional .NET developers and all technologists who need to bring robust, performant and economical solutions to market. (Article Series) |
In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff Patton about moving from project to product thinking; whole team product ownership and satisfying the real customer needs.(Podcast) |
The information pack includes: best content from InfoQ and QCon in 2018, important trends in 2019, editors’ recommended reading list. |
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Predictive maintenance (PdM) applications aim to apply machine learning (ML) on IIoT datasets in order to reduce occupational hazards, machine downtime, and other costs. In this article, the author addresses some of the data preparation challenges faced by the industrial practitioners of ML and the solutions for data ingest and feature engineering related to PdM. (Article) |
Kevin Moore discusses some challenges in designing automated machine learning pipelines that can deal with custom user data that it has never seen before, as well as some of Salesforce’s solutions. (Presentation) |
Rob Keefer discusses some of the positive and negative impacts of AI on human performance, offering a framework for determining the right amount of AI to mix into a system that will help users. (Presentation) |
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Holly Allen talks about the bumps and scrapes, triumphs and pitfalls of Slack’s journey from a centralized ops team to development teams that own the full lifecycle of their systems. (Presentation with transcript included) The next QCon is QCon London, March 4-6, 2019. Join us! |
Richard Moran discusses how Fidelity Investments is leveraging people, process and technology to tackle cultural and technological problems and take on the cloud challenge. (Presentation) |
Baron Schwartz explores real-life stories that answer two questions: “Why is it hard to apply DevOps principles and practices to databases, and how can we get better at it?” He covers topics including: what the research shows about DevOps, databases, and company performance; current & emerging trends in building and managing data tiers; the traditional dedicated DBA role, and more. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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Ijeoma Ezeonyebuchi discusses how to test an application in unexpected ways, concluding with a live demo inviting members from the audience to try and test some applications in the wild. (Presentation) |
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Uday Tatiraju describes the service loading mechanism in Java and the changes made to it in order to support the native Java module system. Tatiraju also discusses an experimental library called Susel that can assist developers in building modular and extensible applications that leverage the native Java module system. The library removes the boilerplate code required to locate and load services. (Article) |
InfoQ reviewed the book Optimizing Java, a comprehensive in-depth look at performance tuning in the Java programming language written by Java industry experts, Ben Evans, James Gough and Chris Newland. InfoQ spoke to the authors for more insights on their experiences, learnings and obstacles in authoring this book. (Article) |
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Though separated from the .NET Core release cycle, EF Core is developing its 3.0 roadmap. Along with it are some important changes to the original Entity Framework. (News) |
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Kyle Simpson takes a look at JavaScript’s history, asking where is it headed, and what are the implications? (Presentation) |
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Xamarin.Essentials abstracts native mobile features into a set of cross-platform APIs with the aim to simplify their use. After a few months in preview, it has been now officially released with a number of enhancements contributed by the community. (News) |
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Doug Hoke and Paul Warren discuss building Content Services on PCF with Spring Boot, Data and Content. (Presentation) |
Prithpal Bhogill discusses using APIs with a microservices architecture, covering API lifecycle, and accelerating the consumption of APIs built on Cloud Foundry. (Presentation) |
Asir Selvasingh and Richard Seroter discuss building a responsive Java system using an even-driven architecture with Boot, Event Hubs, Cosmos DB, App Service, PCF, Functions and Spring Cloud Functions. (Presentation) |
Lenny Jaramillo discusses how Northern Trust migrated to PCF, highlighting how this helped them accelerate the delivery of functionality to their customers. (Presentation) |
Adrian Cockroft keynotes on Chaos Engineering, what it is, what it is good for and where it is heading. (Presentation) |
Gillian Armstrong uses practical examples from their chatbot and shares some of the lessons they learned which help starting a chatbot. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Lavanya Kanchanapalli shares her experience in maintaining a great Netflix customer experience while enabling fast and safe data propagation. She also talks about detecting and preventing bad data that is essential to high availability, ways to make circuit breakers, data canaries and staggered rollout effective, and efficient validations via sharing data and isolating change. (Presentation with transcript included) |
J. Paul Reed looks at what the safety sciences have to say about humans operating complex socio-technical systems, including how resilience engineering can help, the role heuristics play in incident response, and more. All of these provide insight into ways to improve one the most advanced and effective monitoring tools available to keep those systems running: ourselves. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Chaos Engineering: What Is It, and Where It's GoingMigrating from Big Data Architecture to Spring CloudBuilding Responsive Systems with Serverless, Event-Driven Java And more... |
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Going fast without control could be the biggest enemy of software development. By slowing down on people, we improve professionalism and craftsmanship. By slowing down on process, we improve adaptation and efficiency. And by slowing down on product, we improve automation and quality. When we focus on these areas, we start to cultivate a development culture enabling software development fast. (Article) |
Coworking is a mindset that describes the future of work. The coworking manifesto provides a framework of values to create sustainable communities based on trust, where businesses, entrepreneurs, governmental and non-governmental and technical communities can work together. (Article) |
Sue Johnston discusses avoiding a “hero” culture, and the need to create realistic expectations based on the patterns of effective teamwork. (Presentation) |