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Automation and Lean: Scaling up the Lean Value Chain
While lean principles enable us to be effective and innovative everywhere we work, finding automation opportunities across every technology and customer focused processes can unlock bigger potential for repeatedly delivering value to customers. This article shows how Ericsson applied lean principles in IT service delivery for automating manual repetitive tasks to improve quality and efficiency.
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How to Effectively Collect User Feedback in Mobile Application
This article analyzes a variety of forms of collecting feedback in mobile applications from a number of perspectives, including user experience, development, operations,and cost. It also analyzes in which scenario each form of feedback is more applicable, with the purpose of helping mobile application developers or product managers use the right feedback mechanism and improve their products.
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How to Sell Refactoring? The Case of Nordea Bank AB
Refactoring is often not a technical challenge. Teams can accurately diagnose inefficient code design. If they have sufficient time and budget at their disposal, they would probably get things done. In this article, we focus on the strategic code refactoring. This distinction was introduced by the BNS IT consultants as part of the method called Natural Course of Refactoring.
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Roundtable: The Role of Enterprise Architecture in a Cloudy World
Do enterprise architects still matter? Has a cloud-native development model—not to mention a DevOps and SRE approaches to operations—fundamentally changed how we think about enterprise architecture? In this roundtable, we talk to four experienced architects to find the answer.
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Predictable Agile Delivery: The Executive Challenge
As agile grows-out of its years of self-obsession and teenage petulance into a post-agile state, ‘Predictable Agile Delivery’ feels like a realistic goal that advantages both the business sponsor and their development stakeholders. This article shares some ‘good, bad and ugly’ examples of practices that often work and some that always fail at improving large organizations.
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In Defence of the Monolith, Part 2
In the age of microservices, "monolith" has become a dirty word. Yet, monoliths, designed with an emphasis on modularity, can be a better solution for complex domains, such as enterprise applications. The second part of this 2-part series covers a practical approach to creating a successful, modular monolith.
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In Defence of the Monolith, Part 1
In the age of microservices, "monolith" has become a dirty word. Yet, monoliths, designed with an emphasis on modularity, can be a better solution for complex domains, such as enterprise applications. Part 1 of this 2-part series explores the key differences between microservices and monoliths, highlighting the pros and cons of each approach.
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Untangling an API-First Transformation at Scale. Lessons Learnt at PayPal – Part 3
This is the third in a three-part series that explores how PayPal has adopted a more API-first approach to building platform services. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the program aspects and some of the execution and operational challenges that had to be overcome.
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Processing Streaming Human Trajectories with WSO2 CEP
Extracting useful information from an inaccurate data stream is a significant issue in data stream processing for IoT applications. This article describes the use of Kalman filters to smooth human trajectory information gathered from an iBeacon sensor network and demonstrates its effectiveness. The solution has been built with WSO2 CEP, a complex event processing middleware.
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Domain Analysis by Color Modeling
Xu Hao uses the color modeling technique to analyze a domain, identifying the events to be traced and their corresponding moment-intervals, then the domain entities and the role they play.
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Untangling an API-first Transformation at Scale. Lessons Learnt at PayPal – Part 2
This is the second in a three-part series that explores how PayPal has adopted a more API-first approach to building platform services. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how the portfolio of API’s themselves are managed.
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The Future of Serverless Compute
As Serverless approaches end of early-adopter phase, Mike Roberts puts on prediction goggles on where this movement is going next and what changes are needed from organizations in order to support it.