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People Re-Engineering How To’s: Leadership Enablement
There is no doubt that leadership is the management model that is now influencing the software industry, under the enormous challenges imposed by the Digital Transformation Age. People re-engineering elevates the value of leadership by taking “Leadership Enablement” as one of its basic threads, which brings vitality and vigor to a software organization.
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2018 State of Testing Report
The State of Testing 2018 report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. It shares results from this year’s testing survey. InfoQ held an interview with the organizers of the State of Testing survey.
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Cats, Qubits, and Teleportation: The Spooky World of Quantum Computation (Part One)
By the time most of us reach adulthood, we know a few basic truths: cats cannot be simultaneously alive and dead; objects at opposite ends of the universe can’t affect each other; and computers operate on 0s and 1s, and that’s the most fundamental unit of information. The premise of quantum computation is that these truths are partially wrong.
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Service Mesh: Promise or Peril?
Service meshes such as Istio, Linkerd, and Cilium are gaining increased visibility as companies adopt microservice architectures. The arguments for a service mesh are compelling: full-stack observability, transparent security, systems resilience, and more. But is a service mesh really the right solution for you? This article examines when a service mesh makes sense and when it might not.
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Three Things to NOT Do with Your Software Development Projects
Experience has shown that a software project that is rushed into development is likely doomed to fail. Estimation and up-front planning are the keys to delivering desired quality without running over schedule or breaking budgets.
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App Architecture, iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift Review and Author Q&A
App Architecture, iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift by Chris Eidhof, Matt Gallagher, and Florian Kugler presents a number of architectures for iOS Swift applications, from the ubiquitous Model-View-Controller to a few more experimental ones. The book is accompanied by a set of videos that are available as a separate purchase and add a live-coding dimension to the book content.
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The C4 Model for Software Architecture
Software architecture diagrams can be a very useful communication tool, but many teams have scaled back on the creation of diagrams, and when diagrams are created, they are often confusing and unclear. The C4 model consists of a hierarchical set of software architecture diagrams for context, containers, components, and code.
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Q&A on the Book The Pragmatist's Guide to Corporate Lean Strategy
The book The Pragmatist's Guide to Corporate Lean Strategy explores how to practically adopt lean enterprise and lean startup concepts to turn your company into a lean agile enterprise promoting business agility. It provides examples from companies that have applied these concepts, describes the strategy, best practices, anti-patterns, and gives insights into lean and agile transformations.
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The SOA Journey: from Understanding Business to Agile Architecture
If your monolith is tightly coupled and not cohesive, you could split it in order for a business to be more agile. There are a lot of wrong ways that you can do that. They result in the same tightly coupled and non-cohesive monolith, but which is distributed across a network. This article examines how you can align your technical services and business-capabilities.
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How BuzzFeed Migrated from a Perl Monolith to Go and Python Microservices
Starting in 2016 BuzzFeed began a re-architecture project moving from a single monolithic application written in Perl to a set of microservices. The main reason for the move was that the Perl application was proving hard to scale, essential given that buzzfeed.com alone serves about 7 billion page views/month.
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Can People Trust the Automated Decisions Made by Algorithms?
The use of automated decision making is increasing. These algorithms can produce results that are incomprehensible, or socially undesirable. How can we determine the safety of algorithms in devices if we cannot understand them? Public fears about the inability to foresee adverse consequences has impeded technologies such as nuclear energy and genetically modified crops.
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Retrospectives are Weak - Here is How to Make Them Stronger
This article explains why organisations settle for mediocre results from retrospectives and how a great coach can transform the results by bringing the real issues to the surface and creating an environment where a team can learn to trust each other, deal with conflict and experience extraordinary results.