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Microservices from a Startup Perspective
When starting a journey to microservices, knowing what to consider might be overwhelming. No golden rule that is easily applicable exists. Every journey is different, since every organization is facing different circumstances. In this article I am sharing some lessons learned and challenges from a startup perspective, and what I would do differently the next time introducing microservices.
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PSD2: Blessing or Curse for Banks?
PSD2 will force all European banks to offer three APIs (Accounts, Transactions and Payments) free of charges to all 3rd parties approved by the ECB. This will allow new players to bring new and innovative products to the financial sector. For a successful transformation into a digital company, banks must evolve on three axis: Culture & People, Technology & Skills and Technical debt management.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2018
This year, at the seventh annual QCon New York, we had in total 143 speakers across the 117 sessions, workshops, AMAs, Open Spaces and mini-workshops. Topics included containers and orchestration, machine learning, ethics, modern user interfaces, microservices, blockchain, empowered teams, modern Java, DevEX, Serverless, chaos and resilience, Go, Rust, Elixir, and security.
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How Technology Is Impacting the Future of Work through Fragmentation
One of the side effects of technology’s evolution is that it fragments existing architectures and creates new structures in the process. AI and Blockchain are currently doing this, but this pattern has been seen before and will continue as tech evolves. According to Kary Bheemaiah, fragmentation is impacting the future of work; it’s a tech-lead reality to be observed and leveraged when possible.
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Psychological Safety in Training Games
Games can be safe places where people can learn lessons experientially under controlled circumstances and generate insights that can be applied to their daily work. Sometimes though, games can get too personal and uncomfortable. A facilitator can create safety mechanisms for these games, including making it easy and safe for people to opt-in and opt-out.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2018
QCon (the international software conference for senior developers, architects, and tech leads) recently celebrated its twelfth year in London. Located at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference just steps from Westminster Abbey and Big Ben, this year’s event attracted 1,350 tech leaders in software and offered 136 technical deep dives, open spaces, and AMAs (Ask Me Anything) to attendees.
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Holacracy for Humans
Snapper, a New Zealand based transport ticketing service provider, wanted to be more like a city, and less like a bureaucratic corporation. In 2016 they introduced Holacracy, which enables people to act more like entrepreneurs and self-direct their work instead of waiting to be told what to do. They use Holacracy across all areas of the business and this way of working applies to everyone.
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Engineering Culture and Methods InfoQ Trends Report - January 2018
At InfoQ we regularly revisit the topics we focus on based on the technology adoption curve. This article provides a view of the topics we see as being important to the community at the beginning of 2018. Some new topics have appeared since 2017 and there have been some significant shifts in what matters to individuals, teams and organisations over the last year.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2017
The eleventh annual QCon San Francisco was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1,800 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2017
The sixth annual QCon New York was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1,100 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors - up from last year's record of 940. It was also the first to take place in our new home in Times Square.
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DevOps Enterprise Adoption at CSG International with Erica Morrison
Erica Morrison, from CSG International, talks about their DevOps journey, key initiatives and lessons learned.
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The Ultimate Feedback Loop: Learning from Customer Reported Defects
Investigating the root causes of customer reported defects will have a great impact on your organization. The best ways to ensure customer satisfaction, lower costs and increase employee engagement is to look inside — you already have the data. At the end, it’s all about continuous improvement.