 This article provides a summary of how the InfoQ editorial team currently sees the adoption of technology and emerging trends within the programming language space, as of Q3, 2019. (Trends Report) |
 To tame complexity and its effects, organizations need a structured, multi-pronged, human-focused approach, that: makes operations work sustainable, centers decisions around customer experience, uses continuous testing, and includes chaos engineering and system observability. In this eMag, we cover all of these topics to help you tame the complexity in your system. (eMag) |
 In today’s podcast, we sit down with Ryan Kitchens, a senior site reliability engineer and member of the CORE team at Netflix. This team is responsible for the entire lifecycle of incident management at Netflix, from incident response to memorialising an issue. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast, recorded at the Agile India 2019 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Jeremy Kriegel about design innovation and then with Doc Norton about why Tuckman was wrong and how dynamic reteaming makes organisations more resilient. (Podcast) |
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| Researchers from Google AI released two new dialog datasets for natural-language processing (NLP) development: Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation (CCPE) and Taskmaster-1. The datasets contain thousands of conversations as well as labels and annotations for training digital assistants to better determine users' preferences and intentions. (News) |
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 IT leaders say that security is a top priority. Surveys show that it’s easy to say, and hard to do. InfoQ spoke with Christopher Gerg, CISO at Gillware, about security practices in the cloud age. (Article) |
 Chandra Guntur and Hong Liu show how they use Open Policy Agent with Spring Boot and HOCON to produce a responsibility management solution that scales to volume and performance needs. They also show some hiccups that they faced while deriving the most optimal solution for their needs. A short explanation of some tooling they built for validating the policy files in the IDE is also discussed. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Fei Guo talks about Alibaba’s decision to fully integrate upstream Kubernetes into the existing Alibaba container management system. He presents how Alibaba extended Kubernetes to help with their scalability needs, and shares Alibaba’s plans to open source their Controller and Scheduler extensions. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 Edoardo Vacchi discusses opportunities to apply programming language development techniques learned working with Drools and jBPM to a broader context. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 The panelists provide an animated discussion to help people pick which JDK makes sense for their organization. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 The tooling story changed dramatically with .NET Core, because of its serious emphasis on the command line. This is a great fit for .NET Core's cross-platform, tooling-agnostic image. (Article) |
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| Gatsby, the open-source React-based site generator framework, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round, led by CRV. Gatsby plans to grow its team, invest over $3 million yearly in open-source software (including Gatsby itself), and develop a cloud services offering. (News) |
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| The Android Emulator is the main tool Android developers use to test their apps. Google has just made integrating the Android Emulator within a continuous testing pipeline easier by open sourcing the Android Emulator Container Scripts and two related tools. (News) |
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| There are a lot of good reasons for building a CQRS and event-sourcing based system, but there are also problems that appear only after an application is in production. In a presentation at the recent Event-driven Microservices Conference held by AxonIQ, Joris Kuipers shared his experience running and evolving CQRS and event sourced applications in production. (News) |
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 Conflicts are not bad, it is the way we handle them that makes a difference. In a healthy team environment conflict can be a catalyst for creativity and innovation . A coach is not responsible for resolving conflict, but to help the team keep conflict healthy and provide guidance and tools which enable positive outcomes. (Article) |
 The Scrum Fieldbook aims at introducing Scrum within organizations outside of the software industry, where Scrum can help leaders achieve a culture of high performance. The author shares patterns, practices and practical steps that leaders can take to incorporate these successfully in their organization. (Article) |
 The book Managing Technical Debt by Philippe Kruchten, Robert Nord, and Ipek Ozkaya provides principles and practices that help you gain control of technical debt throughout the software development process and life of the software product. (Article) |
 Kiran Kanchan discusses how Spark manages to deliver high quality code with teams of 12-24 people. (Presentation) |
 Katarzyna Szymielewicz discusses technology and privacy, the need to consider privacy when designing systems, and the role of developers in this process. (Presentation) |
 Dee Wauchope and Julian Holmes explain how ThoughtWorks supported a change journey at a major bank, the results that were achieved, the challenges they faced and how they overcame them. (Presentation) |
 Tobias Anderberg discusses introverts, extroverts and everything in between, how to foster an inclusive team environment, and the importance of psychological safety. (Presentation) |
 David Mercurio shares personal insights and experiences about cultural practices that one can apply to help improve the effectiveness of an engineering organization. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Brittany Postnikoff covers some of the capabilities of physical robots, related human-robot interaction research, and the interfaces that can be used by a robot to social engineer humans. She discusses the security, privacy, and ethical implications of social robots, the interfaces used to control them, and the techniques that can be used to prevent robot social engineering attacks. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Paul Tevis explores how empathy – the ability to understand others' needs and ensure that they know that you understand them – is what Charles Duhigg calls a "keystone habit", a behavior change that unlocks other cascading behavior changes. Along the way, he tries to demystify what empathy is and give us simple tools to enhance our practice of empathy. (Presentation with transcript included) |
