 In this podcast, Kavitha Srinivasan, a senior software engineer at Netflix, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. Topics discussed included: how the two main Netflix business units are migrating to GraphQL; how the schema is managed; performance considerations when working with GraphQL; and the role of DevEx in a large migration. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Gonçalo-Silva of Doist about how they maintain a collaborative culture while working completely remotely and asynchronously. (Podcast) |
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| The Protein Structure Prediction Center announced that AlphaFold2, an AI system developed by DeepMind, has solved its Protein Structure Prediction challenge. AlphaFold2 achieved a median score of 92.4 on the Global Distance Test (GDT) metric, above the threshold considered competitive with traditional methods. (News) |
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 Guy Podjarny talks about how to properly secure our cloud functions. He uses a model called CLAD to remember what's left to protect, and discusses concrete practices to scale our defences. (Presentation)
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 Haytham Elkhoja discusses the process of getting engineers from across to agree on a list of Chaos Engineering principles, adapting existing principles to customer requirements and internal services. (Presentation) |
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| Tokio aims to provide building blocks to write reliable and fast asynchronous programs in Rust. Recently announced Tokio 1.0 supports TCP, UDP, timers, a multi-threaded, work-stealing scheduler, and more. (News) |
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| Apache NetBeans release 12.2 offers, among others, (improved) support for Java 14 and 15. NetBeans features such as code coloring, code formatting, and auto-completion now support new Java language features like records and keywords such as sealed, non-sealed, and permits. (News) |
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| For the first time since .NET 2.0, Windows Forms, a.k.a. WinForms, has received new features that are not High DPI-related. (News) |
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 Electron-Firebase provides a quickstart framework for building cloud-connected applications on Windows, macOS, and Linux. By integrating Electron and Firebase, just a few configuration settings allow you to include a complete authentication workflow into your app using email/password, phone number, Google, Facebook, or many other identity providers. (Article) |
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| Xamarin Forms 5.0 is a major new release of Xamarin open-source framework to create cross-platforms UI for iOS, Android, and Windows. It stabilizes a number of new features such as Brushes, Shapes and Paths, CarouselView, drag and drop, and more. (News) |
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| In a recent blog post, Uber engineers highlight how they use a replication platform to implement disaster recovery at scale with a multi-region Kafka deployment. Uber has a large deployment of Apache Kafka, processing trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data per day. Uber's engineers provided business resilience and continuity in the face of natural and human-made disasters. (News) |
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 The book The Rise of the Agile Leader by Chuck Mollor is a blueprint for leaders navigating change in the pursuit of success. Mollor shares his story of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-development, while demonstrating a leadership paradigm, a roadmap of what makes a great leader, and what organizations can do to develop great leaders. (Article) |
 Niall McShane has written the book Responsive Agile Coaching, aimed at people who are coaching individuals, teams and organisations in new ways of working to help guide others in adapting to changing circumstances and responding to new demands. He presents a model for coaching based on knowing when to tell clients the answer versus when to guide them to find the answer for themselves. (Article) |
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 Nate Vogel shares how he grew the data engineering team with an emphasis on building a culture of reliability, discussing processes and tools used. (Presentation) |
 Almudena Rodriguez Pardo shows how spreading skills among Scrum team members nurtured a learning culture, broke the traditional silos of expertise, and increased the efficiency of the teams. (Presentation) |
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