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Azure Data Lake Analytics and U-SQL
In this article, the author shows how to use big data query and processing language U-SQL on Azure Data Lake Analytics platform. U-SQL combines the concepts and constructs both of SQL and C#. It combines the simplicity and declarative nature of SQL with the programmatic power of C# including rich types and expressions.
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Q&A on the Book Helping People Change
The book Helping People Change by Richard Boyatzis, Melvin Smith, and Ellen Van Oosten describes how you can coach people with compassion for sustained learning and change. It explains how connecting to people's vision and dreams and using the energy that that brings can help people grow in a meaningful way.
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Using Java to Orchestrate Robot Swarms
Ocado Technology uses state-of-the-art robotics to power highly automated fulfillment centres. To orchestrate the robot swarms and maximise every bit of efficiency from the warehouses, they've developed a control system analogous to an air traffic control system. This article covers decisions regarding the language, development principles, and architecture choices.
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Q&A with Gojko Adzic on the Book Running Serverless
In the book Running Serverless, Gojko Adzic introduces the basic concepts of serverless including detailed step-by-step instructions to get started on AWS, but he also goes beyond the basics and explains subjects like storage, session state, and event handling.
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Remote Meetings Reflect Distributed Team Culture
Are you having problems connecting with people in your distributed meetings? Do you feel like you and your remote colleagues don’t meet goals in your meetings? The problem may not be with the meetings. It might be the culture in which you run your meetings.
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Data Analytics in the World of Agility
Is it all about customer-centric business, or is there any data left? Can we integrate data analytics and customer empathy? This article explores how we can move towards a more customer-centric business and what information we require in order to understand the most valuable thing we have: our customer.
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Navigating the .NET Ecosystem
In 2002, .NET was released. Over the next 12+ years, the .NET developer community patiently grew at a seemingly steady pace. Then, things started evolving rapidly. Microsoft anticipated the changing ecosystem and embraced the open-source development mindset, even acquiring GitHub.
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Appreciation at Work
As organizations across the world are experimenting better ways to sustain their employees’ engagement, appreciation and recognition programs have flourished in the last five years, among the best, if not the best, tool of predilection for making employees feel valued. Appreciation benefits are not limited to companies’ performance; they also benefit individuals and teams.
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Can Your Meeting Kit Cut It?
Every team meets. Most run their meetings the same way their grandparents and their grandparents' grandparents did. Meeting records predating the Romans describe a leader pontificating, brief back-and-forth discussion, then a conclusion with an inconclusive bit of mumbled agreement. Meetings haven't changed much in thousands of years.
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How to Use Chaos Engineering to Break Things Productively
Chaos can be a preventative for calamity. It's predicated on the idea of failure as the rule rather than the exception, and it led to the development of the first dedicated chaos engineering tools. This article explores chaos engineering, and how to apply it.
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Article Series - Remote Meetings
In this series we’ll look at how teams worldwide are successfully facilitating complex conversations, remotely. And we’ll share practical steps that you can take, right now, to upgrade the remote conversations that fill your working days.
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Designing Chaos Experiments, Running Game Days, and Building a Learning Organization: Chaos Conf Q&A
The second Chaos Conf event is taking place in San Francisco over 25-26 September. In preparation for the conference, InfoQ sat down with a number of the presenters, and discussed topics such as the evolution and adoption of chaos engineering, key people and process learning from running chaos experiments, and what the biggest blockers are for mainstream adoption.