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Overcoming Data Scarcity and Privacy Challenges with Synthetic Data
In this article, the author discusses the importance of using synthetic data in data analytics projects, especially in financial institutions, to solve the problems of data scarcity and more importantly data privacy.
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Changes in the 2020 Scrum Guide: Q&A with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland
The Scrum Guide has been updated to make it less prescriptive, using simpler language to address a wider audience. These changes have been done to make Scrum a “lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems”. An interview with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland about the changes to the guide.
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Reviewing the Microservices Architecture: Impacts, Operational Complexity, and Alternatives
Wes Reisz moderated a roundtable with Leif Beaton (NGINX senior solutions architect), Yan Cui (independent AWS and serverless consultant), and Nicky Wrightson (Skyscanner principal engineer), discussing topics around the microservices approach. The panelists shared their experience on it, analyzing the impact of microservices, challenges in dealing with operational complexity, and alternatives.
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Understanding Similarity Scoring in Elasticsearch
In this article, the author discusses the importance of Relevancy Score for developing Search Engine solutions and how to calculate the relevancy score using Elasticsearch's similarity module.
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Do You Think Like a Lawyer, a Scientist, or an Engineer?
Law, science, and engineering offer three distinct approaches to logical thinking. Each is important in different circumstances, and in practice, we can use all three. How much understanding and control do you have of a situation? Do you simply need to follow the rules? Are you operating in a world of uncertainty and volatility? Or are you building and defining the rules as you go along?
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C# 9 and .NET 5: Book Review and Q&A
The book C# 9 and .NET 5 by Mark Price is a practical guide on developing .NET cross-platform applications. The book is concise, implementation-oriented, and each subject is presented with a hands-on walkthrough. The author covers the main types of applications that can be built with C# 9 and .NET 5. InfoQ reviewed the book and interviewed Price on the goals and contents of the book.
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Application Level Encryption for Software Architects
Challenges of building application-level encryption for software architects.
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Microsoft and the State of Quantum: Q&A with Mariia Mykhailova
Quantum computing can be used to solve large compute problems on small data in areas such as chemistry and materials science. InfoQ interviewed Mariia Mykhailova, a senior software engineer in the Quantum Systems group at Microsoft, to better understand quantum computing, quantum software development, and Microsoft's latest efforts towards this area.
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Moving from Agile Teams towards an Agile Organization
For organizational agility, we need to improve the system for teams and individuals to thrive, instead of expecting them to change and fix the culture. This article explores some elements from a systemic point of view that are essential to create the right conditions for moving from agile teams towards an agile organization.
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Why DSLs? A Collection of Anecdotes
Two years ago, I gave a talk on one of the systems discussed here. Together with a colleague, I explained the business case, the technical benefits, why a regular programming language would not work and the all-around positive outcomes of using the DSLs, plus some of the problems we’ve run into.
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Dealing with Remote Team Challenges
Remote working provides challenges such as providing equitable access, ensuring adequate resources and tooling, addressing social isolation and issues of trust. Remote-first and truly asynchronous teams tend to consistently perform better. In the future, organisations will continue to have remote on their agenda. Fully realising the benefits of remote teams requires trust building and intent.
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What’s New on F#: Q&A With Phillip Carter
Last month, at the 2020 edition of .NET Conf, Microsoft released the latest version of F#. F# is as functional-first, cross-platform, open-source .NET programming language, and it’s developed by Microsoft and several open source partners and contributors. InfoQ interviewed Phillip Carter, program manager at Microsoft, to talk about functional programming, F#, and the new features of F# 5.