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Improving Your Estimation Skills by Playing a Planning Game
Underestimation is still the rule, rather than the exception. One bias especially relevant to the estimation process is the planning fallacy. This article explores the planning fallacy and how we are vulnerable to it. It explains how you can reduce your vulnerability to this fallacy through playing a planning game that has been specifically devised to help mitigate it.
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The Role of DevOps in Cloud Security Management
Different areas of cloud security must be examined to strengthen security in the cloud versus security of the cloud. This includes identifying requirements, defining the architecture, analyzing controls, and identifying gaps. Security must be both proactive and reactive, so it needs to be considered in every step of development.
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Dynamic Value Stream Mapping to Help Increase Developer Productivity
We explore the value stream optimization technique that has proven useful across a number of industries yet is still emerging in the software field. Explore a number of dynamic value stream map practical cases, and see the industry differences in value stream usage between Lean and Agile.
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Designing Secure Tenant Isolation in Python for Serverless Apps
Software as a Service (SaaS) has become a very common way to deliver software today. While providing the benefits of easy access to users without the overhead of having to manage the operations themselves, this flips the paradigm and places the responsibility on software providers for maintaining ironclad SLAs, as well as all of the security and data privacy requirements.
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Native Java in the Real World
Microservices on Kubernetes are the native Java sweet spot: they have the most significant framework and Java runtime overhead. Native Java needs more effort to build, debug, test, deploy & profile. The application framework should fully support native Java in production. Native Java adoption can be incremental. But a native Java application only works if all its libraries support native Java.
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Sustaining Fast Flow with Socio-Technical Thinking
To sustain a fast flow of changes over long periods of time, organizations address both the social and technical, socio-technical, aspects of reducing complexity. Examples are incentivising good technical practices to keep code maintainable, architecting systems to minimize dependencies and maximize team motivation, and leveraging platforms to preclude whole categories of infrastructure blockers.
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Software Architecture: It Might Not Be What You Think It Is
Software architecture is often a misunderstood idea. Unlike traditional architecture, where the design is separated from construction, in software how something is built influences what is built, and vice versa. Software architecture is about decisions, not structure. Architecting is a skill, and architect should not be a role.
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The Top Three Priorities for Engineering Leaders in 2022 and beyond
For engineering leaders, the Great Resignation has made it clear that maintaining employee satisfaction should be a top priority in the coming year. In 2022 and beyond, engineering leaders need to invest in developing a strong engineering culture, using data-driven decision-making to lead their teams, and to prioritize people before performance.
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Kubernetes Native Java with Quarkus
Quarkus is an industry leader in startup time and memory utilization for native and JVM-based Java applications. This reduces cloud costs. Kubernetes is a first-class deployment platform in Quarkus with support for its primitives and features. Developers can use their Java knowledge of APIs like Jakarta EE, MicroProfile, Spring, etc. Applications can be imperative or reactive - or both!
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How Psychological Safety at Work Creates Effective Software Tech Teams That Learn and Grow
This article provides the foundations of psychological safety and shows how it has been applied for team effectiveness. It explores how psychological safety supports learning and improvement and how we can foster a psychologically safe culture in tech teams.
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Kubernetes Crosses the Chasm, and Other Lessons from the 2021 CNCF Survey
You know I love a good survey, so let’s take a look at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s 2021 annual survey. They asked 2,302 respondents how they use Kubernetes and the more general category of cloud-native tools. The major conclusion of the report is that Kubernetes usage is mainstream, as the sub-title of the report labeled 2021: “The year Kubernetes crossed the chasm.”
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On a Quest to Sustainable Happy Profit: How to Create a Sustainability Framework That Works for You
Being sustainable is not just about the product itself, which is built to endure over time. It’s also about the people, time and energy involved in the process, and the consumption that its existence requires. If any single part of the process cannot be maintained over time, it’s unsustainable. Green Recovery can act as an enabler, and when we focus on what matters we can make a dent.