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Spark AI Summit, DevOps Dojos, Apple and ARM, Jakarta EE 9, Spring Boot 2.3, C# Futures, Angular 10, Testing Software Architecture, Culture-Driven HR

Announcing the QCon San Francisco 2020 Tracks

This year’s conference covers a wide variety of topics for the modern software architect, developer, and team lead. Remote Teams, Diversity and Inclusion, Implications of Building Modern Software are just some of the 18 individually-curated tracks. See the tracks.
 

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Nora Jones on Resilience Engineering, Mental Models, and Learning from Incidents

In this podcast, Nora Jones, co-founder and CEO at Jeli and co-author of O’Reilly’s “Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice”, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: chaos engineering and resilience engineering, planning and running effective chaos experiments, and learning from incidents. (Podcast)

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Steve Adolph on Product Management, Product Ownership and Business Agility

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Adolph about the role of the product owner, the rock crusher for user stories and bridging the gap between “the business” and IT. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Databricks Contributes MLflow Machine Learning Platform to The Linux Foundation

  2. Spark AI Summit 2020 Highlights: Innovations to Improve Spark 3.0 Performance

  3. MIT and Toyota Release Autonomous Driving Dataset DriveSeg

Applied Probability - Counting Large Set of Unstructured Events with Theta Sketches

In this article, author Ronen Cohen discusses the solution to processing the event data using Theta Sketches and technologies like HBase and Kafka. (Article)

Accuracy as a Failure

Vincent Warmerdam talks about cautionary tales of mistakes that might happen when we let data scientists on a goose chase for accuracy. It may surprise us, but highly accurate models are more damaging than the inaccurate ones. He shares some work that his team is doing to make sure that chatbots don't fall into this trap. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Couchbase Announces the General Availability of Its Cloud Database on AWS

  2. A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: DevOps Dojo Stories from DOES London 2020

  3. Security as a Product - a Coordination Game between DevOps and InfoSec

  4. Production Identity Framework SPIRE Graduates to CNCF Incubator

  5. DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020: a Diversity and Inclusion Q&A with Shaaron A Alvares

AWS Launches a No-Code Mobile and Web App Builder in Beta: Amazon Honeycode

Recently, AWS announced the beta release of Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service allowing customers to build mobile and web applications without writing any code quickly. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Apple's Rosetta Move

  2. Fathym Low-Code Platform Now Available in Public Beta

Disabling Google 2FA Doesn't Need 2FA

A developer's machine, compromised by attackers, was able to use Safari auto-fill to log into passwords.google.com, disable 2FA and extract passwords without notification. InfoQ spoke to Amos (@fasterthanlime) on Twitter about his experience and advice for others who might find themselves in the same situation. Read on to find out what happened, and what you should do to protect your assets. (News)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Jakarta EE 9 - Milestone 1 Released by Eclipse Foundation

  2. MicroProfile GraphQL 1.0 - a New API in the MicroProfile Family

  3. Apache Netbeans 12 LTS Released

  4. Oracle Open Sources Coherence In-Memory Data Grid

  5. Spring Boot 2.3.0 Focuses on the Cloud

Red Hat Mandrel Makes Java Native

Red Hat has introduced a new Java distribution, Mandrel, that compiles Java applications directly to native code. As a fork of GraalVM, this decreases startup time and memory usage. (News)

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TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. C# Futures: Null Check Operator

Pylance Is a New Python Language Server for Visual Studio Code

Microsoft has announced Pylance, a new language server for Python aimed to help programmers write better Python code and improve IntelliSense and Visual Studio Code support for the language. Pylance will eventually replace Microsoft Python Language Server. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Apple Rejects NFC, Bluetooth and 14 More Web APIs, Citing Privacy Reasons

  2. High Resolution Time Level 2 Is Now a Web Standard

  3. Angular 10, an Incremental Update

  4. Webpack vs. Rollup vs. Parcel vs. Browserify: a Detailed Benchmark

  5. Chrome 85 DevTools Support CSS-in-JS and Lighthouse 6

JavaScript Reaches the Final Frontier: Space

The recent SpaceX Dragon launch brings JavaScript to space. Leveraging Chromium and JavaScript, significant portions of the user interface rely on web technologies. (News)

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TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. LinkedIn iOS Clipboard Copying Was Bug

Google ARCore Depth API Now Available with Additional Sample Code

Released in closed beta at the end of last year, ARCore Depth is now available in ARCore 1.18. Since the initial announcement, Google has been working with selected partners to create compelling use cases of this technology. (News)

Turnkey Multi-Region, Active-Active Session Stores with Steeltoe, Redis Enterprise, and PAS

Adi Foulger provides insights into the Redis Enterprise architecture and demos active/active Redis clusters across two geo-distributed Pivotal Platform foundations. (Presentation)

Reactive Event Processing with Apache Geode

Bill Burcham discusses how to integrate Geode with your Reactive System efficiently, and at scale. (Presentation)

Testing Software Architecture

Vladik Khononov discusses testing the architecture of a system, covering what makes a good architecture, identifying a big ball of mud, an exhausted architecture, and automating such tests. (Presentation)

Why Distributed Systems Are Hard

Denise Yu covers a brief history of distributed computing, presents a survey of key academic contributions to distributed systems theory including the CAP theorem and the FLP correctness result, and digs into why network partitions are inevitable today. Yu talks about why one needs to account for the human factor when designing a complex system. (Presentation with transcript included)

Interface Design in Times of Information Overflow

Martin Oberhauser explains design challenges and responsibilities creating the infotainment concept for Tesla and the Pro-Sport Analytics Platform for Whoop. (Presentation)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Trust and Safety in High Performing Teams: QCon London Q&A

  2. Pandemic Programming Survey Results Show Negative Impact of COVID-19 Changes

How Outsourcing Practices Are Changing in 2020: an Industry Insight

The IT outsourcing industry is very volatile and each year we see new trends reshaping the sector. In 2020, we see some outsourcing practices coming up and others getting stronger. At the same time, we also see some of the prominent outsourcing practices becoming obsolete. This article looks at how the outsourcing industry is changing and getting prepared to embrace the change. (Article)

Q&A on the Book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager

The book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier explores how to manage engineers and what managers can do to build and run effective teams. It helps people decide if they want to go from an engineering to a manager role and organize and improve their management activities. (Article)

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How We Built a Generative Culture at Redgate

Jeff Foster talks about the Westrum model of culture and shares some practical steps that Redgate has taken to improve the way they build products by building a generative culture. (Presentation with transcript included)

Culture-Driven HR: Looking for Performance in Your Culture Not Your KPIs

Doug Talbot presents a study of how organizational values and behaviours were used to transform HR processes for recruitment, performance management and professional development. (Presentation)

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