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How Journaling Puts Leadership in Action

Have you ever wondered how keeping a journal (or even a so-called “diary”) and business-related topics go together? In this article, Cosima Laube explores how regular structured writing for the sake of reflection and learning looks, and shares her own experience with different journaling variants and techniques, as well as some science and meta-level views.

Cosima Laube
on May 12, 2021
Development

Compiled, Typed, Ruby-Inspired Crystal Language is Ready for Production - Q&A with Beta Ziliani

The Crystal language is ready for production, 12 years after inception. Crystal is compiled for performance, typed for safety, and Ruby-like for productivity. Due to the strong type inference, developers need only sparse type annotations. We interviewed the head of the Crystal team on the language tradeoffs, the present features and the language roadmap.

Bruno Couriol Beta Ziliani
on May 08, 2021
DevOps

Why DevOps Culture Matters: Leaders Talk About the Keys to Making Change Successful and Sustainable

A recent Software Delivery Leadership Forum panel discussion shared approaches and tactics for creating a successful DevOps culture. The panel stressed the importance of an aligned culture around the DevOps adoption. This includes setting strategic organizational goals, cultivating psychological safety, and treating your culture as a product.

Shaaron A Alvares
on Apr 30, 2021
Cloud

The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes

At QCon in March, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Red Hat, gave a talk on the evolution of distributed systems with Kubernetes. You might have an answer to that, and Ibryam has one too. At the end of the article, you will find out what he thinks the answer will be.

Bilgin Ibryam
on Mar 24, 2021
Cloud

Cloud-Native Is about Culture, Not Containers

At QCon London last year, Holly Cummins, innovation leader in IBM Corporate Strategy, provided a session titled: Cloud-Native is about Culture, not Containers. In this article, Cummins will discuss the role of culture in cloud-native architecture. Furthermore, she will dive into various topics around cloud-native ranging from its definition to CI/CD and operations.

Holly Cummins
on Mar 17, 2021
Culture & Methods

Training from the Back of the Room and Systems Thinking in Kanban Workshops: Q&A with Justyna Pindel

In the book Kanban Compass, Justyna Pindel shares her experiences from applying training from the back of the room and systems thinking in her Kanban workshops. She adapted her training approach by connecting with attendees and providing them suitable exercises to maximize learning opportunities.

Ben Linders Justyna Pindel
on Jan 19, 2021
Culture & Methods

How Teams Can Overcome the Security Challenges of Agile Web App Development

Is the rapid pace of continuous rollouts making it too easy for your organization to cut corners when it comes to ensuring product source code is secure? You may need to reorient your team culture to adopt agile-friendly security processes. True collaboration between security and dev teams is the key to avoiding product vulnerabilities without compromising on your sprint cadence.

Asim Rahal
on Jan 16, 2021
Development

InfoQ 2020 Recap, Editor Recommendations, and Best Content of the Year

As 2020 is coming to an end, we created this article listing some of the best posts published this year. This collection was hand-picked by nine InfoQ Editors recommending the greatest posts in their domain. It's a great piece to make sure you don't miss out on some of the InfoQ's best content.

Leandro Guimarães Arthur Casals Charles Humble Daniel Bryant Johan Janssen Manuel Pais Renato Losio Shane Hastie Steef-Jan Wiggers Thomas Betts
on Dec 28, 2020
Culture & Methods

Changes in the 2020 Scrum Guide: Q&A with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland

The Scrum Guide has been updated to make it less prescriptive, using simpler language to address a wider audience. These changes have been done to make Scrum a “lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems”. An interview with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland about the changes to the guide.

Ben Linders Ken Schwaber Jeff Sutherland
on Dec 24, 2020
DevOps

Instrumenting the Network for Successful AIOps

AIOps platforms empower IT teams to quickly find the root issues that originate in the network and disrupt running applications. AI/ML algorithms need access to high quality network data to determine what went wrong and where. Network visibility starts from TAPs around network equipment, and teams can add application instrumentation and logs as data sources for complete insights.

Ron Nevo
on Nov 23, 2020
Development

Cheesemake: a Declarative Build Tool for C Programs

This article will describe how I came to spend some of the last few months writing a build tool for C programs. Along the way, I'll also try and say something about getting a software project off the ground, how to tackle technical problems that arise, and some of the steps on the path to working software.

Martin Rixham
on Aug 17, 2020
Culture & Methods

Working Together in the Same Direction with Obeya

Obeya1 is a proven approach that facilitates teamwork and the alignment of activities around seven panels to deliver IT or manufacturing products. It accelerates the regular resolution of good problems by breaking down barriers between teams and it also benefits from the support of the management. The purpose of this article describes the first Obeya panel: vision

Edmond Nguyen Reynald Debaut-Henocque
on Jun 14, 2020

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