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FPGAs Supercharge Computational Performance

Originally used in the development of new hardware, new, cloud-based FPGAs are making the technology more accessible. The dramatic improvements in speed and lower costs over traditional CPUs means more companies can start benefiting from the technology. FPGAs are fundamentally concurrent, which makes them an ideal tool for data-intensive, parallel processing problems.

Rob Taylor
on Nov 17, 2017
Culture & Methods

How AI Will Revolutionize These Five Job Roles by 2022

AI is altering major job roles in the tech industry. From developers to managers to CIOs, established industry positions are being disrupted already. In five years many will be unrecognizable. What changes are coming? This article examines five key roles in tech and show how AI will remake them in the next five years.

Eugene Rudenko
on Nov 16, 2017
DevOps

Observability and Avoiding Alert Overload from Microservices at the Financial Times

At QCon London, Sarah Wells presented "Avoiding Alerts Overload from Microservices", and cautioned that developers and operators must fundamentally change the way they think about monitoring when building a distributed microservice-based system.

Daniel Bryant
on Nov 15, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "Create Your Successful Agile Project"

The book Create Your Successful Agile Project helps people understand agile approaches and select what could work for them.Too often, teams adopt a framework without understanding the context in which that framework is useful. This book shows how you can use your team’s unique product, context, and people to define a suitable agile approach for your project.

Ben Linders
on Nov 14, 2017
Development

An "Integration-First" Approach to Building a Commerce Platform for Payment Terminals

In this article Praveen Alavilli describes how they designed a payment terminal system for interoperability and extensibility, allowing developers to build new shopping experiences.

Praveen Alavilli
on Nov 13, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Practical Kanban

The book Practical Kanban provides solutions for typical problems that continually occur within Kanban implementations. It explains how you can create a Kanban system for the entire value creation chain to coordinate the work of teams.

Klaus Leopold Ben Linders
on Nov 11, 2017
DevOps

Q&A with Connon MacRae on DevOps Adoption and Operational Models at Ticketmaster

Connon MacRae from Ticketmaster on challenges and successes adopting DevOps. Also how operations look like in a global, multi-time zone, 24/7 availability org with 14 different ticketing products.

Manuel Pais
on Nov 10, 2017
Development

Key Steps to Building and Managing an Effective API Marketplace

Across industries, companies are now looking for ways to shape their digital businesses by extending their services through external APIs. To reap the benefits of an API program, however, organizations need to move beyond basic API management to creating an API marketplace, a specialized type of platform business model that focuses on connecting producers and consumers.

Mifan Careem
on Nov 09, 2017
DevOps

Practical Monitoring: Book Review and Q&A with Mike Julian

Mike Julian has recently published Practical Monitoring with O’Reilly, which aims to provide readers with a foundational introduction to the topic of monitoring, as well as practical guidelines on how to monitor service-based applications and cloud infrastrastructure. InfoQ recently sat down with Julian and discussed the topic of monitoring.

Daniel Bryant
on Nov 07, 2017
Culture & Methods

Culture: a Farming Tale

Culture and diversity are major factors for performance of a company, and influence its long-term success. Impacts include hiring practices, career development and direction, productivity, creativity, communication, and results. This discussion identifies cultural elements and their influence on behavior and production, and how diversity augments performance and company dynamics.

Manny Segarra III Susan McIntosh
on Nov 07, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book What Drives Quality

Quality is a critical aspect of all software products, irrespective of the domain the product is used in and what approach is taken to building it. Ben Linders has released a new book titled "What Drives Quality" in which he provides concrete examples and actionable advice to help identify and improve the quality of software products.

Shane Hastie
on Nov 06, 2017
Architecture & Design

Virtual Panel: Microservices Interaction and Governance Model - Orchestration v Choreography

The recent trend in application architectures is to transition from monolithic applications to a microservices model. This transition without a good service interaction model will most likely result in chaos and a service landscape that's hard to govern and maintain. InfoQ spoke with domain experts on this topic and compiled their responses in this virtual panel article

Alex Silva Glenn Engstrand Daniel Bryant Srini Penchikala Chris Richardson Josh Long
on Nov 05, 2017

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