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Agile Hiring: a Joint Venture between the Talent Acquisition and Product Development Teams
The demand for IT professionals is far higher than the offer. Nowadays the challenge is not just to attract and acquire, but to retain the best professionals in the sector. Let's enable dev team members to acquire and secure the best candidates for their teams and the company, collaborate with talent acquisition, and respect candidates as professionals and maintain open communication with them.
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Location, Location, Location: MVA Considerations for Distributed Processing and Data
Even when designing a Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA), developers must consider resource location, especially when mobile apps are part of a distributed system. Distributing the data and processing can introduce new challenges if location is not part of the decision-making criteria.
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The Hows and Whys of Effective Production-Readiness Reviews
At QCon Plus November 2021, Nora Jones, CEO and founder of Jeli, talked about how to build production readiness reviews (PRR) with emphasis on context and psychological safety. Her talk focused on the particulars of a PRR process that relates to incidents.
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Hidden Habits Killing Your Remote Team’s Ability to Collaborate Effectively
Some habits carried over from in-person work continue to damage collaboration and engagement for hybrid and remote teams. By not addressing these habits, teams are experiencing deteriorating morale, lack of trust and connection required for meaningful collaboration. Here are four examples of habits leaders can address today to build more connected, engaged and innovative teams.
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Migrating Netflix's Viewing History from Synchronous Request-Response to Async Events
In a web-based service, a slowdown in request processing can eventually make your service unavailable. Chances are, not all requests need to be processed right away. Some of them just need an acknowledgement of receipt. Have you ever asked yourself: “Would I benefit from asynchronous processing of requests? If so, how would I make such a change in a live, large-scale mission critical system?”
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Running a Hackathon That Sparks Developer Innovation
Hackathons are much more than a fun day of problem-solving and team bonding. They give developers a closer connection to customer problems and, as a result, can drive real, tangible business and even social impact. Here are best practices for hosting your own hackathon.
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How to Migrate an Oracle Database to MySQL Using AWS Database Migration Service
Data migration efforts are typically taken up for database consolidation, cost considerations, or migrating on-prem databases to a cloud platform. In this article, author Deepak Vohra discusses the details of migrating a local database to MySQL database on the cloud, using AWS Database Migration Service.
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Choosing the Right Cloud Infrastructure for Your SaaS Start-up
As a solutions architect, I have been designing SaaS applications for years and I have seen start-ups struggle to find the right cloud infrastructure and improve their product offering. These experiences prompted me to write this article as a tool to help companies make a pragmatic fact and data-driven decision.
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Article Series: Continuous Architecture
In this series of articles, the authors reframe software architecture in terms of decisions that teams make about how their system will handle its quality attribute requirements (QARs). In their view, software architecture, reframed in terms of decisions, completes the picture of how the system works by making clear the choices that the team has made, and why.
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Building Workflows with AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions use a state machine to represent the workflow. A workflow consists of a set of tasks, each of which represents a discrete activity to be performed. Each task is defined by a state of the state machine. In this article, we will learn about the main concepts of AWS Step Functions and apply those to build a workflow for a sample business process: Order Fulfillment.
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The Implication of Feedback Loops for Value Streams
Lead time and throughput are dynamic variables which impact flow in a value stream. Capacity, processing time and feedback loops (such as error conditions) have a significant impact on WIP and flow and need to be mapped and measured when building value stream maps.
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AutoML: the Promise vs. Reality According to Practitioners
Automation to improve machine learning projects comes from a noble goal, but true end-to-end automation is not available yet. As a collection of tools, AutoML capabilities have proven value but need to be vetted more thoroughly. Findings from a qualitative study of AutoML users suggest the future of automation for ML and AI rests in the ability for us to realize the potential of AutoMLOps.