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What We’ve Learned at Devoxx4Kids about Teaching Technology to Kids
The holiday season is a great time to think about our children and their futures, and how we can guide them into the lucrative field of programming and electrical engineering at a young age. Java Champions Arun Gupta and Daniel De Luca, organizers of the popular Devoxx4Kids conference, reveal tried and proven tools and techniques for teaching these abstract fields to our fledglings.
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Health Informatics and Survival Prediction of Cancer with Apache Spark Machine Learning Library
In this article, author discusses the survival prediction of colorectal cancer as a multi-class classification problem and how to solve that problem using the Apache Spark's MLlib Java API.
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Ian Taylor on Founding Animation Research and Winning an Emmy
Ian Taylor is the founder and CEO of Animation Research Ltd, an award winning digital production house based in Dunedin, New Zealand. He gave a keynote talk at the recent Agile New Zealand conference in which he explained Animation Research’s journey from the initial concept to becoming a major player in the production of groundbreaking digital content, and winning an Emmy for the Americas Cup.
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Peer Feedback Loops: How to Contribute to a Culture of Continuous Improvement
This third article in a series on peer feedback loops explores how feedback can be used to encourage a culture of continuous improvement. It presents another three methods to do peer feedback and closes with some recommendations for getting started and going.
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“DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective” Book Review and Interview
Len Bass on the motivation for "DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective", what does looking at DevOps from an architectural perspective mean, DevOps education, microservices and more.
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Lessons Learned About Cloud Migration
At the recent Dynatrace Perform conference, a panel of technology companies discussed the topic of cloud migration and uncovered some key findings.
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Interview series: DevOps Enterprise Adoption
InfoQ ran a series of interviews during the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, focusing on the DevOps transformations that many corporations are currently undertaking to improve not only their productivity and time to market, but also to increase engagement and collaboration between people and teams.
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#noprojects – Focus on Value, Not Projects
In this second article in the #noprojects series Evan Leybourn explains why the focus of work should be about maximizing value rather than working in a project structure. The author presents a dive deep into a #noprojects implementation and provides a framework to structure work as activities around defined outcomes.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2015
This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon San Francisco 2015 as blogged and tweeted by QCon's 1,300 attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 10 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.
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The Soul of a New Release: Eating Our Own Dog Food
As any software developer well knows, large releases are often delayed, or released sans some important features, and newly released software is often riddled with bugs. In this article Plumbr's development lead describes techniques they used to successfully release a major upgrade to the Plumbr Java Performance Monitoring solution, without getting burned by the usual fires.
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"Outsourcing is Bad": Why Good Vendors Agree
Today all companies are software companies and all software must get coded right and get coded fast. This requires a team with shared culture, shared risk, shared accountability. Some would say this isn’t possible with outsourcing. The author believes it is possible and that it’s the only type of outsourcing that will survive.
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Designing Menlo - a Conversation with James Goebel
While visiting Menlo Innovations for a week the author spoke to co-founder and COO James Gobel about the intentional design of the culture and structure of the organization as a joyous workplace. James explains the joy of building products that people use, the goal of "eliminating human suffering as related to technology in the world" and how Menlonians work together towards that goal.