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Using Generative AI in Software Project Management to Bridge Domains and Accelerate Productivity
Gen AI Assistants play to the strengths of professionals with a breadth of experience, particularly software developers who can describe what they want the LLM to complete and critically evaluate the result. These tools enable us to swiftly cross divides of domain language and scale large repetitive tasks down to interesting ones on a human scale.
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Evolving the Federated GraphQL Platform at Netflix
This article describes the journey of the migration towards a Federated GraphQL architecture. Specifically, it shows the GraphQL platform Netflix has built consisting of the Domain Graph Services framework for implementing GraphQL services in Java using Spring Boot and graphql-java, and tools for schema development. It also describes how the ecosystem has evolved at various stages of adoption.
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How Emotional Connections Can Drive Change: Applying Fearless Change Patterns
When trying to bring innovation into an organization, communication is important. It is vital to share information in a clear and logical way, but it is just as important to understand and accept how people are feeling about the innovation. To do this, leaders can make use of strategies that help them create an emotional connection.
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Learning eBPF for Better Observability
This article shares insights into learning eBPF as a new cloud-native technology which aims to improve Observability and Security workflows. Learn how to practice using the tools, and dive into your own development. Iterate on your knowledge step-by-step, and follow-up with more advanced use cases later.
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Dark Side of DevOps - the Price of Shifting Left and Ways to Make it Affordable
Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular. Moving things to earlier stages of software development, empowering engineers. Yet, what is the cost? What does it mean for the developers who are involved? What are the solutions that can help you keep DevOps and Shifting Left? What can we do to break a grip of the dark side? Let’s find out!
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How Skyscanner Embedded a Team Metrics Culture for Continuous Improvement
This article explains why Skyscanner decided not just to deploy a tool, but to think about this as changing their engineering management culture to being one that values and utilises metrics to drive greater improvement at scale. It shows how they evaluated tools to find one that would enable their teams and reinforce the cultural change that was the fundamental goal of this exercise.
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InfoQ Software Trends Report: Major Trends in 2022 and What to Watch for in 2023
2022 was another year of significant technological innovations and trends in the software industry and communities. The InfoQ podcast co-hosts met last month to discuss the major trends from 2022, and what to watch for in 2023. This article is a summary of the 2022 software trends podcast.
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Increasing Team and Individual Motivation with the Motivational Diagnostic
Being motivated can make a positive difference to both our engagement and our success in the workplace. The same is true of teams - a motivated team is much more likely to be engaged at work and achieve results. The motivation diagnostic tool helps people understand more about how motivated they feel, and the factors that are contributing towards that motivation or demotivation.
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Going from Architect to Architecting: the Evolution of a Key Role
This article explores the cultural change of moving towards shared architecture, and the role that the architect has evolved into; from one with an air of authority and singular vision, to one in which system design issues are surfaced, which require team-wide input to resolve. Teams being coached and guided towards shared ownership might be struggling with the paradigm shift of ownership.
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Accessing Agile Games as a Tool in Transformation and Change
This article puts the usage of Agile Games into a broader business context and introduces the steps needed to make any game a verifiable contribution to a given business objective. As “business” is a wide area of topics to be addressed, the article focuses on accessing Agile Games as a tool used within transformation and change. It provides an example that was taken from this area.
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Moldable Development: Guiding Technical Decisions without Reading Code
Developers spend most of their time reading code. Moldable Development challenges reading as a means to gather information from the system, by creating custom tools that show the problem in a way that makes it comfortable to understand. The solution typically follows quickly afterward. Glamorous Toolkit is a moldable development environment designed to decrease the cost of custom tools.
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Scaling and Growing Developer Experience at Netflix
An optimal Developer Experience will depend a lot on the company the developer is working for. This article discusses why and when changes to developer needs will occur, how to get ahead of them, and how to adapt when these changes are necessary. I talk through some of the experiences myself and peers have had at Netflix, identifying some key learnings and examples we have gained over the years.