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Connect Agile Teams to Organizational Hierarchy: A Sociocratic Solution
Many agile teams suffer from the mismatch of agile and organizational leadership with the latter being reflected by the organizational hierarchy. This article suggests using sociocracy as a solution that leaves the hierarchies in place yet still allows teams to act in an agile way.
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AngularJS in Action - An Interview With Lukas Ruebbelke
AngularJS in Action by Lukas Ruebbelke is a hands-on book about Angular version 1. Through a sample ToDo list application, angello, it shows AngularJS’s architecture and components. With AngularJS v.2 Beta just being released, InfoQ spoke with the author about the lessons learned from the book and AngularJS present and future direction.
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No Starch Press' Python Playground Review and Q&A with the Author
No Starch Press’ Python Playground provides a fairly large and varied collection of projects that aim to show how Python can be used in such different contexts as creating ASCII art, birds simulation, interfacing to Raspberry Pi, and more. InfoQ has spoken to the book’s author, Mahesh Venkitachalam.
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What We’ve Learned at Devoxx4Kids about Teaching Technology to Kids
The holiday season is a great time to think about our children and their futures, and how we can guide them into the lucrative field of programming and electrical engineering at a young age. Java Champions Arun Gupta and Daniel De Luca, organizers of the popular Devoxx4Kids conference, reveal tried and proven tools and techniques for teaching these abstract fields to our fledglings.
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Interview series: DevOps Enterprise Adoption
InfoQ ran a series of interviews during the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, focusing on the DevOps transformations that many corporations are currently undertaking to improve not only their productivity and time to market, but also to increase engagement and collaboration between people and teams.
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The Soul of a New Release: Eating Our Own Dog Food
As any software developer well knows, large releases are often delayed, or released sans some important features, and newly released software is often riddled with bugs. In this article Plumbr's development lead describes techniques they used to successfully release a major upgrade to the Plumbr Java Performance Monitoring solution, without getting burned by the usual fires.
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Easily Create Java Agents with Byte Buddy
In this article Rafael Winterhalter, creator of the bytecode manipulation tool Byte Buddy, provides detailed guidance on how to easily create Java agents using Byte Buddy.
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Go in Action - Review and Q&A with the Author
Go in Action is a new book from Manning that aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Go, both its syntax and implementation, and its most common idioms. InfoQ has spoken with William Kennedy, author of the book.
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Effective Ruby LiveLessons - An Interview with Sam Phippen
Effective Ruby LiveLessons by Sam Phippen is a series of video lectures explaining best practices used by expert Rubyists targeting all levels of Ruby programmers. The video lessons contain hands-on demonstrations to help the viewer understand how each item is put into action. InfoQ spoke with the author about the lessons learned from the video and Ruby on Rails best practices.
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Java: The Missing Features
In this article, we look at some of the "missing features" of Java, as well as the work, if any to remediate those.
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Key Lessons Learned from Transition to NoSQL at an Online Gambling Website
In this article, author Dan Macklin discusses the transition to Riak NoSQL and Erlang based architecture coupled with Convergent Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) and lessons learned with the transition.
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Q&A with Matthias Marschall on Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Update
InfoQ asked Matthias Marshall what's new in the 2nd edition of his book and his view on the evolution of the configuration management tool space.