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 In this eMag, the InfoQ team pulled together stories that best help you understand this cloud-native revolution, and what it takes to jump in. It features interviews with industry experts, and articles on key topics like migration, data, and security. (eMag) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Josh Evans, former engineering manager at Netflix, on how Netflix does DevOps and the freedom and responsibility culture that undermines their way of working. (Podcast) |
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 At QCon London, Sarah Wells presented "Avoiding Alerts Overload from Microservices", and cautioned that developers and operators must fundamentally change the way they think about monitoring when building a distributed microservice-based system. (Article) |
 Michael Jenkins discusses ways that developers and system administrators can us to bridge the gap between legacy systems and modern techniques. (Presentation) |
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 Llewellyn Falco discusses Mob Programming, a way of working, what it looks like, and why it can work, including a short session of actual mobbing. (Presentation) |
 Emanuele Blanco introduces Scala’s typeclasses, discussing when to use them and how to implement them, looking at some examples and figuring out how to do more with less code. (Presentation) |
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| Oracle has announced its intention to make Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) open source. Per Liden, creator of ZGC at Oracle and member of Hotspot (and formerly JRockit) project, has proposed a new project in OpenJDK community to make ZGC open source. (News) |
 Building Reactive Systems Using Akka; The Evolution of Eclipse Collections; Painless Migration to Java Jigsaw. Learn More. |
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 Bill Parrott discusses CORS, what it is and how it works, why it is a crucial part of the modern web, what it enables, and what can’t be done. (Presentation) |
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 Originally used in the development of new hardware, new, cloud-based FPGAs are making the technology more accessible. The dramatic improvements in speed and lower costs over traditional CPUs means more companies can start benefiting from the technology. FPGAs are fundamentally concurrent, which makes them an ideal tool for data-intensive, parallel processing problems. (Article) |
 In this article Praveen Alavilli describes how they designed a payment terminal system for interoperability and extensibility, allowing developers to build new shopping experiences. (Article) |
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 This is the third in a series of articles that will help you think about how you might want to customize your agile approach for your context. Many agile approaches assume teams will estimate with story points, which leads to a project velocity measure. Instead of velocity, consider counting stories or using cycle time for estimation. You might not need to measure velocity at all. (Article) |
 AI is altering major job roles in the tech industry. From developers to managers to CIOs, established industry positions are being disrupted already. In five years many will be unrecognizable. What changes are coming? This article examines five key roles in tech and show how AI will remake them in the next five years. (Article) |
 The book Create Your Successful Agile Project helps people understand agile approaches and select what could work for them.Too often, teams adopt a framework without understanding the context in which that framework is useful. This book shows how you can use your team’s unique product, context, and people to define a suitable agile approach for your project. (Article) |
 Jonny Schneider compares Design Thinking, Lean and Agile, offering guidelines for working with other teams, and advising on what to avoid doing, based on lessons learned in the trenches. (Presentation) |
 Adam Yuret discusses what real-world pressures are preventing organizations from achieving what Lean and Agile approaches promise. (Presentation) |
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