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Continuous Portfolio Management as a Contributor for Achieving Highly-Aligned, Loosely-Coupled Teams

There is a business need for fast software delivery in order to frequently test business hypotheses and drive development based on the resulting feedback. Organizations need to rapidly decide on what to build next, using a short feedback loop that greatly reduces the risk of running on untested assumptions for too long. This article explores a journey towards continuous portfolio management.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Mar 16, 2022
Architecture & Design

A Standardized, Specification-Driven API Lifecycle

At QCon Plus last November, Kin Lane, Chief Evangelist with Postman, and the Open Technologies Team lead presented on API specifications. API specifications are essential to him and at Postman. So he wanted to share a bit of how they see API specifications impacting how they produce and consume APIs.

Kin Lane
on Mar 15, 2022
Development

Ballerina for Full-Stack Developers: a Guide to Creating Backend APIs

This article explores Ballerina’s intuitive syntax for writing REST APIs. We also discuss authentication, authorization, OpenAPI tool, observability, SQL/NoSQL client libraries, and key language features. At the end of this article, you will have a good understanding of why Ballerina is a prominent candidate for writing your next backend API.

Imesha Sudasingha
on Mar 14, 2022
Architecture & Design

Low-Code Tools Optimize Engineering Time for Internal Applications

Internal tools are critical pieces of software, often custom-built, and requiring significant developer bandwidth. Low-code platforms can optimize developer productivity, facilitate collaboration, and allow less technical employees to be more active in the development process.

Nikhil Nandagopal
on Mar 11, 2022
Culture & Methods

Using the Problem Reframing Method to Build Innovative Solutions

Building products that customers love relies heavily on the problem space: how well you know your audience and how clear are the pain points and main problems your users are facing. This means that the solution to a problem depends on how we frame the problem. This article provides different practices and tools on how to apply problem reframing underpinned by a real case study.

Sebastian Straube
on Mar 10, 2022
Java

Level up Your Java Performance with TornadoVM

GPUs, FPGAs, or multi-core CPUs are present in almost every computing system today. These devices help increase performance and run more efficient workloads, but most frameworks are built on C or C++ only. At QCon Plus, Juan Fumero spoke about TornadoVM, a high-performance computing platform for the JVM, allowing to offload, at runtime, Java code to run on heterogeneous hardware accelerators.

Juan Fumero
on Mar 10, 2022
DevOps

Best Practices for Running Stateful Applications on Kubernetes

Running stateful applications on Kubernetes is not a common use-case but it is possible. This article covers a number of techniques for safely operating stateful applications on Kubernetes including the StatefulSet and DaemonSet controllers, secret management, ConfigMaps, and the effective use of namespacing.

Gilad David Maayan
on Mar 09, 2022
Culture & Methods

Five Tips on Managing a Remote-First Development Team

Most software development teams have gone remote during the pandemic - and may stay remote even after the lockdowns. Managing remote-first teams is a challenge. Knowing how to do it right can make or break the experience for everyone. Here are five things you can do to succeed as an engineering manager.

Marcelo Wiermann
on Mar 08, 2022
DevOps

From Couch to Continuous Documentation: Incorporating Documentation into the Development Workflow

As software teams and projects grow, they suffer from knowledge management pains related to their code - lengthy onboarding, limiting knowledge silos, complex code, and risk of attrition. Creating Walkthrough Documentation while practicing Continuous Documentation can address most of the problems that relate to code-related knowledge sharing and management.

Tom Ahi Dror Eyal Ittah
on Mar 04, 2022
Culture & Methods

Superior Employee Engagement through Radical Team Autonomy

Radically collaborative organizations have recently doubled in number. Their economic success is due to four cultural imperatives: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency-need gratification, and candid vulnerability. Teams within radically collaborative organizations exhibit six dimensions of autonomy: who, what, when, where, how, and role.

Matt K. Parker
on Mar 04, 2022
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Building End-to-End Field Level Lineage for Modern Data Systems

In this article, the authors discuss the data lineage as a critical component of data pipeline root cause and impact analysis workflow, and how automating lineage creation and abstracting metadata to field-level helps with the root cause analysis efforts.

Mei Tao Xuanzi Han Helena Muñoz
on Mar 03, 2022
Culture & Methods

Using Emergence and Scaffolding to Address Complexity in Product Development

The use of scaffolding and emergence has utility in delivery, supporting the bootstrapping of knowledge and close collaboration with the customer which in turn supports a more organic approach to delivery. Their use is poorly understood but they can be used as part of existing agile practices by tweaking them, avoiding the need for wholesale change

Greg Brougham
on Mar 03, 2022

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