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Scaling DevOps, Reactive JavaScript, Microservices and Domain Driven Design, Microsoft Cognitive Services, Microsoft Build, Prepack, OpenShift, Management 3.0

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The InfoQ eMag: Scaling DevOps

This eMag collects articles that explore how to go about scaling DevOps in large organizations – effectively identifying cultural challenges that were blocking faster and safer delivery – and the lessons learned along the way. We include a couple of practices that can help disseminate those lessons. (eMag)

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Article Series: Reactive JavaScript

Reactive programming techniques are becoming more prevalent in the constantly changing JavaScript landscape. This article series hopes to provide a snapshot of where we are at, sharing multiple techniques; variations on a theme. From new languages like Elm to the way Angular has adopted RxJS, there is something for every developer, no matter what they are working with. (Article Series)

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Daniel Bryant on Microservices and Domain Driven Design

Wesley Reisz talks to Daniel Bryant on moving from monoliths to micro-services, covering bounded contexts, when to break up micro-services, event storming, practices like observability and tracing, and more. (Podcast)

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Adam Tornhill on Good Engineering Culture, Technical Debt and Ways to Reduce Inter-Team Conflict

In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Tornhill of Empear on combining psychology and software engineering, and technical debt. (Podcast)

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Predicting Movie Ratings: NLP Tools is What Film Studios Need

In this article, the author discusses how to use Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to predict the movie ratings using the data shared on social media platforms. Sentiment analysis of movie reviews can also be used to classify movies into different genres and to improve the movie recommendation systems. (Article)

The Future of Artificial Intelligence

The speakers in this panel discuss the future of artificial intelligence. (Presentation)

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Taking an Application-Oriented Approach to Cloud Adoption

Taking an infrastructure-centric approach to cloud adoption can lead to unrealized benefits. Architect Amit Kumar outlines eleven principles to consider when introducing cloud services into your architecture. (Article)

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Full-Scale Elm in Production

Richard Feldman introduces Elm, how it works, what differentiates it from the other front-end technologies, and gives practical advice for introducing it to an existing JavaScript codebase. (Presentation)
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Building for Builders

Romain Huet presents ideas from how Stripe has created their developer documentation. (Presentation)

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JCP EC Votes against the Java Platform Module System

Today, the results of the JCP Executive Committee vote on JSR-376 (Java Platform Module System, commonly known as Jigsaw), was published on the Java Community Process page. There were 10 votes for the proposal and 13 votes against the public review. (News)

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ASP.NET Core Drops Support for .NET Framework

Last Friday, ASP.NET Core quietly switched to only supporting .NET Core 2.0. This means that ASP.NET Core 1.0/1.1 applications running Mono or the full .NET Framework will not be upgradable to ASP.NET Core 2.0 when it is released in 2-3 months. Seen as a major breaking change to the platform without a public discussion or formal announcement, this has angered many prominent developers. (News)

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Q&A with Paul Daniels and Luis Atencio on RxJS in Action

RxJS In Action provides a solid introduction to RxJS and lays out what the future of reactive JavaScript programming looks like. In this Q&A session, authors Paul Daniels and Luis Atencio talk more about RxJS, where it fits into the JavaScript landscape and how it affects JavaScript developers. (Article)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Serverless JavaScript

Steve Faulkner discusses Bustle's entire serverless stack. He talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly, sharing real numbers from production systems. (Presentation)
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Shoutem Aims to Be the WordPress of React Native Mobile Apps

Shoutem has recently launched its new React Native-based app builder, which is being presented to developers as the WordPress for mobile apps. InfoQ has spoken with Shoutem's VP of marketing Robert Sekulić. (News)

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Rebuilding the Monolith with Composable Apps

Ian Thomas discusses breaking down monoliths into composable parts and understanding value from the point of the customer, showing examples of functional programming styles for building front-end apps. (Presentation)
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It's Microservices All the Way down

Ori Pekelam discusses the principles underlying a microservices architecture, the risks associated with it, topologies, ways of communication between services, deployment, and other considerations. (Presentation)

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Q&A on Doing It - Management 3.0 Experiences

In the book Doing It - Management 3.0 Experiences, Ralph van Roosmalen shares his experiences from using Management 3.0 as a manager and as a coach. He explores how he experimented with ideas and practices like moving motivators and kudo cards from Jurgen Appelo’s book Managing for Happiness to find out what drives people, help them to become happier at work, and empower self-organizing teams. (Article)

Evolving the Engineering Culture @Criteo

Manu Cupcic shares Criteo’s definition of engineering culture, describing its key elements, and elaborating on how it evolved over time. (Presentation)
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The 22000 Persons Start-up

Paul Cobban shares his insights into the transformational journey DBS Bank has taken to emerge as a more agile organization, replicating a start-up environment for a 22000 employee organization. (Presentation)

Forming Self-Selected Teams - How to Create Happy, Empowered, and Effective Teams

Amber King and Jesse Huth share from their experience at Opower where 40 engineers were allowed to self-select six teams that would work on new projects. (Presentation)

INVESTing in User Stories

Seb Rose explores what a good user story looks like, discussing the INVEST acronym to see if there is a replacement that describes the key elements of a good user story in a less ambiguous language. (Presentation)

The Holistic Detective Hunt for Great Tech Culture

Doug Talbot talks about the key elements of the organizational complexity puzzle, why it’s so important, what patterns to choose from, how they coordinate to achieve change, what changes they have driven in Ocado Technology and how they can measure the success of this. (Presentation)
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Tips for Creating a More Equal Workplace

Kate Heddleston talks about what institutional bias is, why it's a problem, and how it manifests in the workplace. (Presentation)
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