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Top Picks for QCon 2019
Wesley Reisz is the QCon Chair && Community Advocate for London, San Francisco, and New York. This article brings together his favourite talks 45 from the 2019 QCon series of conferences.
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Getting to Know Deep Java Library (DJL)
Amazon has announced DJL, an open source library to develop Deep Learning models in Java. This article details how to get started with the toolkit. The library aims to reduce number of software dependencies by enabling end-end Deep learning development in Java, rather than having to use additional technologies such as Python or R.
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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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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Fransisco 2019
This year’s QCon San Fransisco featured 177 speakers, track hosts, workshop presenters, and committee members. These are people like one of the foremost thinkers in the DevOps movement John Willis, CEO/Co-Founder of DarkLang Ellen Chisa, and VP Cloud Architecture Strategy @AWSCloud Adrian Cockcroft.
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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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The Future of Spring Cloud's Hystrix Project
The Spring Cloud Hystrix Project was built on top of the similarly-named Netflix project. The latter has recently been placed into maintenance mode, leaving Java developers wondering where to migrate to. The Resilience4j project aims to fill that gap and provide continuity for cloud native Java projects.
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How Structure, Process, and Rules Make People Free
There is a widespread belief that rules, structure and processes inhibit freedom and that organizations that want to build a culture of autonomy and performance need to avoid them like the plague. In this article, we want to debunk that myth. Nurturing a culture of freedom and responsibility at scale is an organizational design problem
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Great People Deserve Great Managers: Managers Effectiveness Index at Kronos Incorporated
Kronos transformed their managers’ capability by introducing a Manager Effectiveness Index (MEI), which consists of codifying the role of managers and measuring their effectiveness. The company turned their employees’ performance process upside down by asking their employees to rate their managers’ performance and effectiveness twice a year.
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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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Author Q&A: The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety
Dr Timothy Clark has published the book The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety in which he explores how psychological safety is enabled in groups and how they progress through the four stages of inclusion safety, learner safety, contributor safety and challenger safety and why achieving challenger safety is so important for creativity and innovation