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Organizational Topologies and Their Impact on Quality
August Lilleaas recently wrote about the correlation between organization complexity and software quality citing a paper by Microsoft. Rapid Software Testing Methodology creator James Bach has also recently written about how we should interpret quality metrics. The authors of Team Topologies shared insights into how adapting organizational structure can improve the health of software.
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Highlights from SEACON:UK 2019 - Enterprise Measurement, Enterprise Structuring for Outcomes
This is a summary of the key topics and presentations from the SEACON:UK Study of Enterprise Agility conference held in London 12th November 2019. Key messages from the conference were about: measuring success at enterprise level; structuring your organisation for agility; the importance of culture in agility at scale; and the use of cloud services in the enterprise. All are available on YouTube.
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DOES London: Mark Schwartz on War & Peace & IT
Mark Schwartz, former CIO and self-described iconoclast, spoke recently at DevOps Enterprise Summit London. Schwartz is the author of three books published by IT Revolution: ‘The Art of Business’, ‘A Seat at the Table’ and ‘War & Peace & IT,’ and is currently an enterprise strategist at Amazon Web Services.
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Patterns in Distributed Systems
In a series of blog posts, Mathias Verraes describes patterns in distributed systems that he has encountered in his work and has found helpful. He currently describes 16 patterns in three areas: patterns for decoupling, general messaging patterns and event sourcing patterns. His goal is to identify, name and document the patterns together with the context in which they can be useful.
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Effectively Using Jira with an Overarching Vision
Dzmitry Hryb of Atlassian partner DevInit has recently published an article responding to a TechCrunch story that claimed using Jira's issue-centric model could result in a myopia, which misses the "macro-vision." Recent writing by architect Eltjo R. Poort and DevOps lead Matt Saunders also offers patterns for using Jira with other best-fit tools to capture vision and architectural direction.
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QCon NY: Joe Emison on Serverless Patterns and Anti-Patterns
Joe Emison, CTO at Branch, spoke at QCon New York 2018 Conference about the design patterns and anti-patterns in serverless architecture.
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The New CIO: Leading IT the Mark Schwartz Way
Mark Schwartz, formerly CIO at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and now enterprise strategist at AWS, spoke at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London about what it means to lead IT.
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Spanning the Business and Technology Divide: A Talk with UBS, LBG and ITV
Prior to this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit in London, InfoQ hosted a video panel sponsored by IT Revolution and featuring speakers from the DevOps Enterprise Summit Events: Jelena Laketic from UBS, Mark Howell from Lloyds Banking Group and Tom Clark from ITV.
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Happy Cultures and How They Grow High Performers
ITV's Tom Clark spoke at DOXLON in February, proposing the hypothesis that high performance is a side-effect of creating happy teams. Andy Flemming, contributor to Deliberately Developmental Organization, also recently spoke about how to reap business and strategic benefits by creating a culture with an intentional focus on transparency, and the learning, growth and happiness of individuals.
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Stefan Tilkov at microXchg Berlin: Microservice Patterns and Antipatterns
In his presentation at microXchg 2018 in Berlin, Stefan Tilkov explored patterns and antipatterns in microservice projects from his perspective, including Evolutionary Architecture, Decoupling Illusion, Distributed Monolith and Entity Service. He especially noted that some of the patterns he considers to be patterns, other people may see as antipatterns, and the other way around.
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Q&A with Kubernetes Founder Brendan Burns on Containers and Distributed System Patterns
InfoQ caught up with Brendan Burns, author of Designing Distributed Systems, Patterns and Paradigms for Scaleable Microservices. He talks about Distributed Systems patterns and how Containers enable it.
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The Future of Work - Morning Sessions from Agile People Sweden
The fifth Agile People Sweden Conference is being held on October 23 and 24 in Stockholm. The 2017 conference theme is: The Future of Work - Scaling Agile to Improve Worklife. The Monday morning sessions explored agility scales, enterprise wide agility with sociocracy, and self organization.
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Brian Goetz Speaks to InfoQ on Pattern Matching for Java
Brian Goetz and Gavin Bierman of Oracle introduce the concept of pattern matching for potential integration into the Java programming language. By starting from common Java source code idioms that are verbose or error prone, they explore how pattern matching may eliminate some of the pitfalls.
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Technical Excellence, Organisational Design for CD, and Container Security: Agile on the Beach 2017
At the Agile on the Beach 2017 conference, run in Cornwall, UK, several hundred speakers and attendees gathered to discuss the latest developments within the field of agile and post-agile software development methodologies. Key takeaways from the second day included: cultivating technical excellence; organising for continuous delivery; and container security.
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John Willis Talks DevOps Superpatterns at DOES17 London
John Willis, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, spoke about the emerging DevOps Superpattern at the 2017 DevOps Enterprise Summit June 5th and 6th in London.