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 Subtle production failures running Microsoft Azure, identifying users from aggregated mobile data, taking over a city with Philips Hue lightbulbs, processing a trillion edge graph on a single machine, and why Rust should be your systems language of choice. (eMag) |
 On the InfoQ Podcast this week, Wes Reisz talks with the Queen of Patterns, Linda Rising. Linda discusses her thoughts on the importance of patterns, she answers questions about what a pattern really is, and how she became involved in working with them. She discusses a variety of organizational and personal patterns and finally wraps with patterns to apply when driving change and innovation. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Denise Jacobs about her keynote talk on Banishing your Inner Critic. (Podcast) |
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 Considerable buzz surrounds artificial intelligence, and, indeed, AI is all around us. As with any software-based technology, it is also prone to vulnerabilities. Here, the author examines how we determine whether AI is sufficiently reliable to do its job and how much we should trust its outcomes. (Article) |
 Mahish Singh discusses how to use methodologies during design, development, deployment and operation for delivery of analytics platforms which offer real-time SLAs. (Presentation) |
 Brian D'Alessandro and Pedro Rubio talk about the patient friendly search system they have built at DocDoc using various products from the AWS stack and custom Machine Learning pipelines. They focus on the anatomy of their Patient Powered Search and cover both the architecture and algorithms that enable them to go from “ear ache” to “otolaryngologist.” (Presentation)
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 We have a bunch of introductory guides, case studies from real companies using it. (Article) |
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| A recent article about Facebook’s release process covers its flexible methodology of pushing massive amounts of code changes to production for web and native mobile apps. It focuses on how they moved from a “cherry-picking” to a “push-from-master” strategy over a period of one year and their tools and processes for achieving it. (News) |
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 Daniel Spiewak creates a `Free` monad to show how powerful it can be when applied to the right problems. (Presentation) |
 Antoine Lefeuvre compares emails and bots, highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of each. (Presentation) |
 Christopher Meiklejohn introduces Loqaut, a design for large-scale actor programming on the Erlang virtual machine. (Presentation) |
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| Oracle is proposing that Java switch to a 6-month cadence for releases, rather than the current two-year model. They are also announcing a move to make OpenJDK the primary JDK for developers and make OracleJDK a support-only offering. (News) |
 Learn more about where its different components are in terms of adoption: Java SE Innovation, Java EE Early Majority and Reactive. (Article) |
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| Microsoft continues to prepare for the forthcoming Fall Creators Update for Windows 10, and they are upgrading developers tools and resources as part of these preparations. The UWP Community Toolkit (UCT) has been updated to take advantage of Microsoft's new Fluent Design Language that will eventually become the new user interface for Windows 10. (News) |
 Read one of the trending news items on this topic . (News) |
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 When pages are slow to load, images are frequently the culprit. The megabyte size of web pages is steadily growing, and images are by far the largest component. In this article, Gilad David Maayan shows how image optimization can be achieved easily and automatically with a few lines of code, using three different cloud services, dramatically improve page load times and bandwidth usage. (Article) |
 Put aside one hour and go thru some of the most important trends in software development together with some oldies but goldies presentations. You can choose to watch them or skim thru them using the show notes feature. (Presentation) |
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| After launching Project Tango a few years ago, Google has announced a new augmented reality (AR) initiative, ARCore, which aims to bring AR to millions of Android devices. (News) |
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 Michael Nitschinger discusses how to build event-driven applications that are resilient from the bottom up, allowing you to deal with remote services that are failing, slow or misbehaving. (Presentation) |
 Bruno Cambounet discusses Open Banking and the European Payment Services Directive, covering what one needs to know, security and the impact on innovation. (Presentation) |
 Leonid Movsesyan talks about the inevitability of a failure and the ways engineers can design their systems to be able to tolerate them. (Presentation)
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 Robert Enyedi talks about the eBay ShopBot, a personal shopping assistant available as a Facebook Messenger bot. He talks about the internals of the eBay ShopBot and how the processing of text, image and speech flows through the purpose-built system leveraging the product knowledge graph, commerce-aware input recognizers and the Dialog Manager. (Presentation)
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 Jim Posen provides an overview of blockchain protocols and discusses how Coinbase’s unified architecture for payment services abstracts away integration-specific logic from core transaction processing. He dives into the details of Coinbase’s Bitcoin, Ethereum, and US banking integrations and compares how they implement the generalized service interface. (Presentation)
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 Arjan and Savita explain how a distributed agile framework can help distributed teams create an engineering culture. Based on over a decade of experience, they share actionable practices that can help you get your distributed engineering tools and practices in place. Topics covered include devops, team structure, microservices, pair programming, T-shaped engineers, continuous integration and deployment. (Article) |
 A small, upscale burger house opens on a narrow street of Rio de Janeiro. Their system is optimized for efficient order taking. However, unfortunately, it is chaotic. One morning, a cashier did not come to work. Can you guess what happened? With a little help from the Theory of Constraints and Systems Thinking, we will explain in this article why their system actually improved one person short! (Article) |
 Denoncourt gives advice to older job seekers with tips on how to go about writing cover letters, filling out resumes, handling themselves in interviews, and preparing for difficult questions and coding assessments. Employers will change their perspective of older applicants and see the benefits of hiring sage programmers that are smart, love learning and have a track record of success. (Article) |
 The book Working with Coders is a practical guide to managing teams of software developers aimed at a non-technical audience. In the book, Patrick Gleeson explores how the software development process works and what managers can do to support it effectively and build solid working relationships with coders. (Article) |
 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) |
