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Real-Time APIs, AI Common Sense, HashiCorp's Waypoint, DevOps in Banking, Markdown-Wasm, Kotlin's Coroutines, REPLicant, Android Studio 4.1, Microservices, Code Quality

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The InfoQ eMag: Real-Time APIs: Designing, Operating, and Observing

Research shows that there is an increasing demand for near real-time APIs, in which speed and flexibility of response are vitally important. This eMag explores this emerging trend in more detail. (eMag)

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Removing the Dependency of Zookeeper on Kafka

Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Justin Gustafson and Colin McCabe, two of the engineers currently working on removing the dependency of ZooKeeper in Kafka. The three discuss why the team made this decision, what the ramifications are, and explore what both the near and future state will be with upgrading and operating Kafka. (Podcast)

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Aaron Blohowiak from Netflix on Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership

In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2019, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Aaron Blohowiak of Netflix about using a framework for delegation to encourage ownership and engagement among team members. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. NVIDIA's AI Reduces Video Streaming Bandwidth Consumption by 10x

Is Artificial Intelligence Closer to Common Sense?

Intelligent agents lack the common-sense knowledge they need to reason about the world. Traditionally, there have been two unsuccessful approaches to getting computers to reason about the world—symbolic logic and deep learning. A new project, called COMET, tries to bring these two approaches together. Although it has not yet succeeded, it offers the possibility of progress. (Article)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Cloudflare Releases a Cloud-Based Network-as-a-Service Solution: Cloudflare One

  2. Hashicorp’s Waypoint Targets Consistent Build and Deploy Workflows across Platforms

  3. How Spotify Is Driving Data-Driven Decisions

  4. Preview of AWS Cost Anomaly Detection Now Available

How to Make DevOps Work with SAFe and On-Premise Software

There can be no agile software delivery without the right DevOps infrastructure. In this article we share our experience in our DevOps and agile transformation journey. We have a big and distributed team structure and we are delivering an on-premise software that makes the delivery different from cloud practices. The challenge was bringing all the teams together in a pipeline for faster delivery. (Article)

The State of DevOps in Banking

The panelists discuss the state of DevOps in banking, including the increased need for adaptability, the impact of value stream mapping and management, as well as a future outlook for 2021. (Presentation)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Rust Hyper HTTP Library Will Contribute to Make Curl Safer

  2. Git 2.29 Introduces Experimental Support for SHA-256

  3. Markdown-Wasm, a Very Fast Markdown Parser Written in WebAssembly

Introduction to Kotlin's Coroutines and Reactive Streams

Krystian Rybarczyk looks into coroutines and sees how they facilitate asynchronous programming, discussing flows and how they make writing reactive code simpler. (Presentation)

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Java InfoQ Trends Report—September 2020

This article provides a summary of how the InfoQ editorial team currently sees the adoption of technology and emerging trends within the Java and JVM space in 2020. (Trends Report)

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TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. REPLicant, a Super Simple Svelte REPL - Peter Allen at Svelte Summit 2020

  2. Animated, Responsive, and Reactive Data Visualization with Svelte

  3. Introducing Webpack 5

JavaScript Open Source Awards 2020 Distinguishes Six Impactful Projects

Since 2018, the JavaScript Open Source Awards distinguishes impactful open-source projects across four categories every year— Breakthrough of the Year, The Most Exciting Use of Technology, Fun Side Project of the Year, and The Most Impactful Contribution to the Community. The 2020 batch rewarded six open-source projects. (News)

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3 Multi-Tenant Data Architecture Strategies

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Android Studio 4.1 Includes New Database Inspector, Integrated Emulator, TensorFlow Lite Bindings

The latest version of Android official IDE, Android Studio 4.1, is now stable. Besides introducing a new database inspector, integrated emulator, and better TensorFlow Lite support, it improves integration with Dagger and fixes over 2,000 bugs. (News)

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Seven Hard-Earned Lessons Learned Migrating a Monolith to Microservices

Based on experience gained from several microservices migrations, these seven lessons can help you be successful and overcome or avoid common challenges. (Article)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Articulating Leadership through Nemawashi and Collaborative Boards

Q&A on the Book Good Guys

In the book Good Guys, David Smith and Brad Johnson describe how men can support women in the workplace by becoming their allies. It explains why men are the missing ingredient for creating gender equity in the workplace and provides solutions to increase inclusion and diversity. (Article)

In the Search of Code Quality

Software development process being a convoluted interplay of technical, business, sociological and psychological forces makes it very hard to understand. This leads to a multitude of myths and hypes. Recent scientific research challenges many commonly held beliefs and intuitions. (Article)

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