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Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organisations

There's a worrying trend towards focusing on specialisms at the expense of collaboration, shared responsibility and valuable outcomes, which can take teams away from multi-disciplinary collaboration. This article calls out three collaboration anti-patterns that appeared in more than one organisation, some of the symptoms they cause and some thoughts on how to go about counteracting them.

Emily Webber
on Sep 21, 2023
Architecture & Design

Domain-Driven Cloud: Aligning Your Cloud Architecture to Your Business Model

Domain-Driven Cloud (DDC) is an approach for creating your organization’s cloud architecture based on your business model. Based on Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and the architecture principle of high cohesion and low coupling, this article introduces DDC including the technical and human benefits of aligning your cloud architecture to the bounded contexts in your business model.

Ryan Shriver Chris Belyea
on Sep 15, 2023 4
Culture & Methods

Why Developers and Staff+ Engineers Should Get Involved in Open-Source Collaborative Development

Over the last 30 years, the world has become connected and digital. Open source is how we do modern software development, stitching together downloaded open-source libraries, frameworks, and other code to create new applications or functionality. This is why every developer and senior staff+ roles need to know what open source is and how it works.

Nithya Ruff
on Sep 15, 2023
Java

Dealing with Java CVEs: Discovery, Detection, Analysis, and Resolution

This article delves into the importance of integrating Software Composition Analysis (SCA) in CI/CD pipelines for security. It highlights the need for human oversight to accurately assess vulnerability impact and cautions against "alert fatigue." The article also recommends specialized tools for effective vulnerability management.

Lukas Krecan
on Sep 11, 2023
.NET

Building Kafka Event-Driven Applications with KafkaFlow

KafkaFlow, a .NET open-source project, simplifies Kafka-based event-driven app development with features like middleware for message processing, enhancing maintainability, customization potential, and allowing developers to prioritize business logic.

Guilherme Ferreira
on Sep 08, 2023 1
AI, ML & Data Engineering

AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report - September 2023

In this annual report, the InfoQ editors discuss the current state of AI, ML, and data engineering and what emerging trends you as a software engineer, architect, or data scientist should watch. We curate our discussions into a technology adoption curve with supporting commentary to help you understand how things are evolving.

Roland Meertens Srini Penchikala Sherin Thomas Daniel Dominguez Anthony Alford
on Sep 06, 2023
Culture & Methods

Managing the Carbon Emissions Associated with Generative AI

There’s an increasing concern about the energy use and corresponding carbon emissions of generative AI models. And while the concerns may be overhyped, they still require attention, especially as generative AI becomes integrated into our modern life. Factors such as model architecture, transparency and quantization of models are required to decrease carbon emission from AI systems.

Jesse McCrosky
on Sep 01, 2023
Java

Streamlining Code with Unnamed Patterns/Variables: a Comparative Study of Java, Kotlin, and Scala

Explore the use of the Unnamed Patterns/Variables in programming languages like Java, Kotlin, and Scala. Enhancing code readability, allowing omission of unnecessary components, and simplifying code are key features. Expect further innovative uses as languages evolve.

A N M Bazlur Rahman
on Aug 30, 2023
Java

Leveraging Eclipse JNoSQL 1.0.0: Quarkus Integration and Building a Pet-Friendly REST API

Eclipse JNoSQL 1.0.0 modernizes NoSQL integration with advanced features, standardized specs (Jakarta NoSQL & Jakarta Data), enhanced queries, schema migration, and Quarkus framework compatibility. It simplifies NoSQL use, boosts performance, scalability, and integrates seamlessly, empowering developers with tools to streamline data management in modern apps.

Otavio Santana
on Aug 23, 2023
Culture & Methods

Reducing Verification Lead Time by 50% by Lowering Defect Slippage and Applying AI/ML Techniques

Can we increase our flexibility? Can we increase our test coverage? Can we increase our efficiency? And is it possible to reduce our verification lead-time by 50%? One company challenged itself with these questions. This article explores two important “‘pillars”’ of their testing strategy: shifting left and using state-of-the-art techniques to support verification activities.

Paul Derckx
on Aug 21, 2023
Culture & Methods

Becoming More Assertive: How to Express Yourself, Give Feedback, and Set Boundaries

Do you know that feeling, when you are brave enough to say ‘NO’ and then you don’t feel comfortable about it? This article provides a proper understanding of what an assertiveness skill is. You will learn how to identify the communication skills we need to work on to become more assertive, and get information about the characteristics and skills of assertive people.

Marta Firlej
on Aug 16, 2023 1
Architecture & Design

Evolving the Federated GraphQL Platform at Netflix

This article describes the journey of the migration towards a Federated GraphQL architecture. Specifically, it shows the GraphQL platform Netflix has built consisting of the Domain Graph Services framework for implementing GraphQL services in Java using Spring Boot and graphql-java, and tools for schema development. It also describes how the ecosystem has evolved at various stages of adoption.

Kavitha Srinivasan
on Aug 14, 2023