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Article Series: Patterns of DevOps Culture

Healthy organizations exhibit similar patterns of behavior, organization and improvement efforts. In this series we explore some of those patterns through testimonies from their practitioners and through analysis by consultants in the field who have been exposed to multiple DevOps adoption initiatives.

Manuel Pais
on Sep 18, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Garage Door Openers: An Internet of Things Case Study

In this article, author discusses how to design an Internet-connected garage door opener ("IoT opener") to be secure. He talks about cloud service authentication and security improvements offered by networked openers, like two-factor authentication (2FA). He also discusses security infrastructure for IoT devices, which includes user authentication, access policy creation & enforcement.

Jonathan Margulies
on Sep 13, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Breaking Down Data Silos with Foreign Data Wrappers

Author Lenley Hensarling discusses the Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) feature in Postgres database. FDW provides a SQL interface for accessing data objects in remote data stores to integrate data from disparate sources like NoSQL databases and bring them into a common model.

Lenley Hensarling
on Sep 09, 2015
Mobile

Meeting Developer Demands with WebRTC and CloudRTC Platforms

The WebRTC API lets developers easily integrate real-time comms into their apps. This article is the second part of a two part series analyzing the market of WebRTC platforms. It compares data from late 2013 / early 2014 to a survey conducted in April and May of this year as part of an ongoing coverage of the cloud real-time communications platform market.

Peter Crocker
on Sep 08, 2015
DevOps

How Different Team Topologies Influence DevOps Culture

There are many different team topologies that can be effective for DevOps. Each topology comes with a slightly different culture, and a team topology suitable for one organisation may not be suited to another organisation, even in a similar sector. This article explores the cultural differences between team topologies for DevOps, to help you choose a suitable DevOps topology for your organisation.

Matthew Skelton
on Sep 02, 2015
Mobile

Metadata-Driven Design: Building Web APIs for Dynamic Mobile Apps

More than ten years ago, software architect Kevin Perera invented a design method for architectures that was called "metadata-driven design and development". In this article, Aaron Kendall explains how to use this design method and outlines similarities as well as differences to current techniques like RESTful services or HATEOAS by implementing a metadata-driven mobile application.

Aaron Kendall
on Sep 01, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A on Scrum for Managers

Rini van Solingen and Rob van Lanen wrote Scrum for Managers, a book providing answers for organizations that want to or are adopting Scrum. An interview on what managers can do to give teams enough space to self-organize, the possible ROI of implementing Scrum and how to measure ROI, defining teams and anchoring Scrum in the organizational structure and systems, and much more.

Ben Linders
on Aug 31, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A on Kanban Change Leadership

In the book Kanban Change Leadership Klaus Leopold and Sigi Kaltenecker explore how Kanban can be deployed to get change done in organizations and to build a culture of continuous improvement. An interview on doing change in small steps, solving problems, using WIP limits, priorities and classes of service in Kanban, using the Theory of Constraints with Kanban, and getting results with Kanban.

Ben Linders
on Aug 27, 2015
Architecture & Design

Seven Microservices Anti-patterns

In this article Vijay Algarasan, a Principal Architect at Asurion, discusses how he and his teams have encountered microservices at various engagements and some lessons they have learned as a result. This has resulted in them building up a series of anti-patterns and some associated patterns, which Vijay believes are more widely applicable to all practitioners of microservices

Vijay Alagarasan
on Aug 24, 2015
Q&A with Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky and Barry O’Reilly on Lean Enterprise

The "Lean Enterprise" book authors discuss how traditional management practices fail to balance innovation and product exploitation as they require very different sets of capabilities.

Manuel Pais
on Aug 20, 2015
Version Control, Git, and your Enterprise

This article is about understanding Git – both its benefits and limits – and deciding if it’s right for your enterprise. It is intended to highlight some of the key advantages and disadvantages typically experienced by enterprises and presents the key questions to be contemplated by your enterprise in determining whether Git is right for you and what you need to consider in moving to Git.

Bob Jenkins
on Aug 18, 2015
What is Success for a Scrum Master?

Experienced Scrum Masters explain how they define and measure their own personal success as Scrum Masters, and share their lessons learned about how to achieve success. From dealing with stakeholders, to how to improve coaching skills and how to help the team achieve a sustainable pace, the lessons come from many years of experience and will help you improve your performance as a Scrum Master.

Vasco Duarte
on Aug 17, 2015

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