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Ballerina Tutorial: A Programming Language for Integration
Ballerina is a new programming language and platform whose objective is to make it easy to create resilient services that integrate and orchestrate across distributed endpoints. Ballerina’s design principles focus on baking integration concepts into a language, including a network-aware type system, sequence diagrammatic syntax, concurrency workers, being “DevOps ready”, and environment awareness.
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Q&A on the Book Many Voices, One Song - Shared Power with Sociocracy
The book Many Voices, One Song - Shared Power with Sociocracy by Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez provides a collection of sociocratic tools and principles and stories about applying sociocracy. It can be used as a reference for implementing sociocracy in organizations to establish self-governance.
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Advanced Architecture for ASP.NET Core Web API
This article looks into how ASP.NET Core makes it easy to build a modern web API. This enables an implementation that is easy to design, test, and maintain. By using the Ports and Adapter Pattern business logic can be decoupled from API frameworks and data access.
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Ballerina Microservices Programming Language: Introducing the Latest Release and "Ballerina Central"
The tutorial demonstrates Ballerina, a new programming language and platform whose objective is to make it easy to create resilient services that integrate and orchestrate across distributed endpoints. Ballerina uses compile time abstractions for distributed system primitives that enable the compiler to generate artifacts like API gateways for deployment to Docker and Kubernetes.
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Microservices and the Economics of Small Things
In this article Mark Burgess explores the process of "decentralizing intent" and the effect it has on the predictability of our systems including what we can know as we scale systems.
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Models and Their Interfaces in C# API Design
Traditional MVC, MVP, MVVM, Web MVC; the common element in every UI pattern is the Model. And while there are many articles discussing the view, controllers, and presenters in these architectures, almost no thought is given to the models. In this article we’ll look at the model itself and the .NET interfaces that they implement.
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Book Review and Q&A: Microservices and Containers by Parminder Singh Kocher
The book Microservices and Containers, by Parminder Singh Kocher, provides a deep dive into the main concepts, patterns and technologies used to implement modern, highly available, highly scalable cloud-native applications.
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Coaching with Curiosity Using Clean Language and Agile
Clean Language questions are bias-free questions. They can be used to discover the underlying rules, expressed values, and coping mechanisms in organizations, and to gain clarity and promote diverse ideas in groups. Simple to learn, but tricky to implement, clean questions require transparency and sharing a bit more of one’s thinking than usual.
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Building Apps Leveraging Municipal Open Data and Low Code Solutions
Municipal governments produce and commission large amounts of data and information every day. This article demonstrates how Oracle Application Express (APEX) -- a low code, cloud-based development tool -- can be used in combination with the Socrata Open Data API (SODA) to build a simple reporting web application that includes a report and a chart based on the NYC 311 service request open data.
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Guide to Digital Transformation - Part 2
This article introduces a new framework for translating a digital business ambition into imaginable digital strategies, that can be priced and modeled for impact analysis and economic value creation .
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Digital Transformation in Oil and Gas
The traditional Oil and Gas Industry is being transformed by a new wave of digital disruptive technologies. To remain profitable, oil and gas companies must consider how to gain operational efficiencies through improved use of technology, such as cloud platforms, and process, such as the adoption of agile methodologies. This article explores challenges within implementing these technologies
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Guide to Digital Transformation. Define, Price, and Plan a Digital Transformation (Part 1)
Realizing the value of a great digital business vision traditionally required the arduous exercise of building the proper operational, technology, and human capabilities. This article introduces a framework for easily translating a digital business ambition into imaginable digital strategies, that can then be priced and architecturally modeled for impact analysis and economic value creation.