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 Yao Yue spent the majority of her career working on caching systems at Twitter. She created a performance team that deals with edge performance outliers often exposed by the enormous scale of Twitter. In this podcast, she discusses standing up the performance team, thoughts on instrumenting applications, and interesting performance issues (and strategies for solving them) they've seen at Twitter. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Joshua Kerievsky, CEO of Industrial Logic, and Heidi Helfand, Director of Engineering Excellence at Procore Technologies and author of the book Dynamic Reteaming, about their talk High Performance via Psychological Safety. (Podcast) |
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 AI depends on "data janitorial" work, as opposed to science work, and there is a gulf between prototype and sandbox, and innovation and production. (Article) |
 Hendrik Muhs introduces Keyvi, a key-value store based on 'finite state', describing the concepts, explaining what makes it different and where it is useful. (Presentation) |
 We have a bunch of introductory guides, case studies from real companies using it. |
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 InfoQ spoke with Steve Thair, co-founder of DevOpsGuys, about the evolution, current state and challenges of DevOps on Windows. (Article) |
 Tim Bozarth shares how Netflix is enabling engineers to go from "zero" to "production ready" in minutes, incorporating best-practices learned through years in the cloud. He shares the story of transitioning from their home-grown RPC machinery to open-source standards and how their new approach is improving team velocity across Netflix engineering. (Presentation)
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 Adrian Trenaman discusses how HBC Digital has applied a blend of microservice / serverless architectures, continuous deployment, and cloud technology to make it easy to push code swiftly and safely and operate it reliably in production. He also talks about the organisational tools like team self-selection, internal startups, etc. that allow them to decentralise and decouple high-performing teams. (Presentation)
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 Justin Schneck demonstrates building simple devices using Nerves, discussing strategies for producing clean and maintainable code for embedded systems. (Presentation) |
 Nora Jones talks about different experiences on "Chaos Adventures" including both successes and failures introducing Chaos in an organization. Chaos Engineering can lead to better development processes and procedures and better preparedness for outage. These benefits are available to any company willing to invest in more resilient and antifragile systems. (Presentation)
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 Jearvon Dharrie talks about the factors that contribute to Elixir's perfect match for fault tolerance and resiliency, besides the Open Telecom Platform (OTP). The topics are ease of deploying, operations and monitoring, typespecs, and the BEAM's forgiving nature. (Presentation)
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 John Mileham presents how they use, deploy, and even love Delayed::Job (a database-backed job queue) at Betterment for its transactional enqueue semantics, safe retry with exponential backoff, and its storage model, which lends itself to simple but powerful SLA-based monitoring and alerting. DJ enables engineers to pour their creativity into their features and get resilience by default. (Presentation)
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 Hugo Hache introduces Clarke, a Ruby DSL library designed to build conversational bots. (Presentation) |
 Learn about pitfalls in adoption and discover best practices from companies that actually implemented them. |
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| Reports have appeared in the press and online that the hackers who breached the Equifax credit report company systems exploited a security flaw in the Apache Struts framework. The Apache Software foundation, who act as custodians of the framework, have released a statement responding to the claims. (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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| Three months after its first stable release, community-driven F# to JavaScript compiler Fable has reached version 1.2, just in time for FableConf 2017, the first conference dedicated to web development in F# using Fable. (News) |
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 Mark Heckler discusses and demonstrates how to develop wearable applications for smartwatches and voice-enabled applications for the Amazon Alexa product family to interact with cloud applications. (Presentation) |
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 Uwe Friedrichsen explores how much functional design affects the overall robustness of a solution to learn how to deliver a better "resilient functional service design". (Presentation) |
 Nat Sakimura discusses using OAuth and OpenID for securing financial transaction services. (Presentation) |
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 Developers are increasingly testing their own and each other's code. "Evaluation anxiety" is common psychological condition that is directly impacted by self-testing and team-testing. Are practices like TDD a defense mechanism to protect coders from criticism? And do emerging methods like Behavior Driven Development represents a more emotionally healthy approach to team evaluation? (Article) |
 The biggest tool in the software engineer’s toolkit is the brain, yet few organisations go out of their way to educate and create the conditions in which the brain can work at its best. Explore the different domains of the brain and their links to the performance of software engineers and see what organisations can do to create workplaces that propagate advanced levels of cognitive performance. (Article) |
 Jez Humble presents some of the highlights and lowlights of the past six years listening to people explain why continuous delivery won’t work, and what he has learned in the process. (Presentation) |
 Andy Carmichael discusses Kanban and how to use insights and techniques from Kanban within any process framework. (Presentation) |
 Wolfgang Wiedenroth presents real life examples of situations where he used the “brain on” mode to solve the problems at hand and explains how to use it. (Presentation) |
 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) |
