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A Roadmap to the Programmable World
The emergence of millions of remotely programmable devices in our surroundings will pose significant challenges for software developers. This article proposes a roadmap from today’s cloud-centric, data-centric Internet of Things systems to the Programmable World highlights those challenges that haven’t received enough attention yet.
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How to Communicate Better in Distributed Teams
In this article, Hugo, Arjan and Savita explain how their distributed agile framework can help distributed teams communicate better. Based on over a decade of experience, they share actionable practices that can help you improve the communication with team members across the world. Topics covered are virtues, trust, communication rhythm, retrospectives for distributed teams.
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Introducing Sock Shop: A Cloud Native Reference Application
This article describes Sock Shop, a fully containerized, microservice architecture, cloud native reference application developed by Weaveworks.
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Are Unit Tests Part of Your Team’s Performance Reviews?
No matter how often you conduct performance reviews, there is no doubt unit testing should be one of the metrics measured. Eli Lopian explains what makes a good unit test and how to measure them to ensure your development team is truly agile.
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Philipp Jovanovic on NORX, IoT Security and Blockchain
In this interview, originally published on InfoQ France, Mathieu Bolla talks to Philipp Jovanovic, a Cryptographer at EPFL, about NORX, IoT Security and keeping yourself safe on-line, and Blockchain.
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Machine Learning Techniques for Predictive Maintenance
In this article, the authors explore how we can build a machine learning model to do predictive maintenance of systems. They discuss a sample application using NASA engine failure dataset to predict the Remaining Useful Time (RUL) with regression models.
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Under The Hood with the JVM's Automatic Resource Management
The deprecation of Object::finalize is an unusual step for the Java ecosystem. We dive deep into the Hotspot JVM to see how it works. We also compare it to RAII and the Java 7, try-with-resources syntax. The article contrasts these very different approaches to automatic resource management, and explains why TWR should be used in place of finalization by application programmers.
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Consensual Software: How to Prioritize User Safety
This article covers how consensual software will help address online harassment and abuse vectors before they get out of hand. It also covers some features the GitHub Community & Safety team has built and how we review features from other teams.
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Q&A on the Book Agendashift Part I
In the book Agendashift, Mike Burrows describes an inclusive, non-prescriptive, values-based, and outcome-centric approach to continuous transformation. He explores several lean and agile techniques that can be used in workshops and coaching to do lasting change.
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Article Series: Reactive JavaScript
Reactive programming techniques are becoming more prevalent in the constantly changing JavaScript landscape. This article series hopes to provide a snapshot of where we're at, sharing multiple techniques; variations on a theme. From new languages like Elm to the way Angular has adopted RxJS, there's something for every developer, no matter what they're working with.
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Predicting Movie Ratings: NLP Tools is What Film Studios Need
In this article, the author discusses how to use Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to predict the movie ratings using the data shared on social media platforms. Sentiment analysis of movie reviews can also be used to classify movies into different genres and to improve the movie recommendation systems.
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Q&A with Paul Daniels and Luis Atencio on RxJS in Action
RxJS In Action provides a solid introduction to RxJS and lays out what the future of reactive JavaScript programming looks like. In this Q&A session, authors Paul Daniels and Luis Atencio talk more about RxJS, where it fits into the JavaScript landscape and how it affects JavaScript developers.