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How SwissLife France’s Enterprise Architects Used Lean to Raise Their Level of Influence
This article shows how Lean has been successfully applied to its own activities by an Enterprise Architecture team. Making the flow visible, loving problems and having fun solving them, and welcoming voice of the customer feedback were some of the practices that helped the team navigate the flow. Lean allowed them to better live to their purpose, both individually and as a team.
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Q&A on the Book Building Digital Experience Platforms
The book Building Digital Experience Platforms by Shailesh Kumar and Sourabhh Sethii describes methods, techniques, and practices for using digital experience platforms (DXP) and provides a digital transformation case study from a banking application.
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InfoQ Editors' Recommended Talks from 2019
As part of the 2019 end-of-year-summary content, this article collects together a list of recommended presentation recordings from the InfoQ editorial team.
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InfoQ's 2019, and Software Predictions for 2020
We take a look back at what we saw on InfoQ in 2019, and think about what the next year might bring.
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Quarkus, a Kubernetes Native Java Framework, Reaches Version 1.0: Q&A with Thomas Qvarnstrom
Quarkus, a Kubernetes native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot, has reached version 1.0. Quarkus is an Open Source stack for writing Java applications, offering unparalleled startup time, memory footprint and developer experience. InfoQ spoke with Thomas Qvarnstrom, senior principal product manager at Red Hat, in order to learn about the Quarkus journey, extensions, and more.
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Adoption of Cloud-Native Architecture, Part 1: Architecture Evolution and Maturity
In this article, authors Srini Penchikala and Marcio Esteves discuss what organizations should assess when adopting cloud native architectures for hosting their applications on cloud. It focuses on architecture hosting models. They also discuss how architecture patterns like microservices, containers, serverless, and service mesh can help with organizational adoption of cloud native solutions.
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Q&A with Tyler Treat on Microservice Observability
Tyler Treat attempts to disambiguate the concepts of Observability and Monitoring. He discusses how the complexity of elastic systems produces more unknowns that require a discovery-based approach. InfoQ recently sat down with Treat to discuss the topics of observability and monitoring, and he shares some challenges and best practices when introducing observability concepts.
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The Unicorn Project and the Five Ideals: Interview with Gene Kim
The Unicorn Project is a fictionalized story about a DevOps transformation. Gene Kim introduces the five ideals of Locality and Simplicity; Focus, Flow and Joy; Improvement of Daily Work; Psychological Safety; and Customer Focus. The book confirms the importance of the DevOps movement as a better way of working and addresses the importance of architecture and developers’ productivity.
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Q&A on the Book Team Topologies
The book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais shows how to arrange teams within an organization to enable effective software delivery. It describes four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns, and dives into the responsibility boundaries of teams and how teams can communicate or interact with other teams.
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Testing Microservices: Six Case Studies with a Combination of Testing Techniques - Part 3
This article presents six real world use cases of testing microservice-based applications, and demonstrates how a combination of testing techniques can be evaluated, chosen, and implemented.
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Categorise Unsolved Problems in Agile Development: Premature & Foreseeable
Productivity decline and technical debt, as often seen in agile development, can be prevented by separating unsolved problems into premature and foreseeable. It shifts the discussion about unsolved problems from importance to likelihood. With small but essential adjustments, agile can be kept sustainable. With this insight, developer-architect differences and team psychology gaps can be bridged.
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Q&A on the Book: The Technology Takers – Leading Change in the Digital Era
The Technology Takers – Leading Change in the Digital Era by Jens P. Flanding, Genevieve M. Grabman, and Sheila Q. Cox explains how organizations can achieve competitive advantage through their speed and flexibility in adopting technology. It prescribes a change management approach for adapting workplace behaviors to market-dominating technology to maximize its benefits.