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Peter Saddington on Agile Scout & Leveraging Human Capital
Peter Saddington discusses his work as an Agile Coach, his Agile Scout blog, his new book and his passion into research and tools around leveraging human capital and optimizing teams.
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The Culture of Comaking with Jeff Patton
Jeff Patton helps teams build better products by helping them understand their users in a more thoughtful manner. By using the principles of comaking, teams begin to take more responsibility for their projects and their outcomes, thereby creating a more streamlined process of meeting their users' needs and having fun while doing it.
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Pat Reed on Agile, Accounting and Career Pathways
Pat Reed discusses the need for an Agile accounting standard to support large-scale agile adoption, the need for career pathways that are compatible with collaborative teamwork and the role of the Agile Alliance in humanizing the software industry.
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Sadek Drobi, the Play 2.0 Story and what's new in 2.1
Sadek talks about the origins of Playframework, motivations behind 2.0 rewrite and Scala integration. He explains how important is it to have appropriate architecture and programming model while dealing with Realtime. He then reveals some features of the newly released 2.1 version.
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George Dinwiddie on the Three Amigos (Business, Programmers, and Testers)
George Dinwiddie sits down with InfoQ at Agile 2012 to discuss the Three Amigos (Business, Programmers, and Testers) and how they need to interact and use examples in order to get a shared vision.
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Michael Nygard - Redefining CAP
In this InfoQ interview, Michael Nygard explores some of the available loopholes in the CAP theorem helping architects to engineer distributed systems that meet their needs. He also discusses new patterns he’s observed since his book, Realease IT and shares his thoughts on continuous delivery, DevOps and ALM.
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Jeff Brown on Grails 2 and Groovy
Jeff talks about the powerful features that come with Grails 2 and how it can be used as a rapid application development framework. He also compares it with Rails and Django and explains how it can be combined with other components from the Spring portfolio.
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Brandon Carlson on Measurement, Professionalism and Fearing Our Customers
Brandon Carlson discusses his Agile journey, measurement and some code metrics tools he is working on. He also shares his views on professionalism and the importance of not fearing your customers.
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Emil Eifrem on NoSQL, Graph Databases, and Neo4j
Emil Eifrem looks back at the history of Neo4j, an open-source, NoSQL graph database supported by Neo Technology. He describes some real world applications of graphs, domain modelling with graphs, and compares the performance of graph and relational databases. He also examines how Neo4j differs from other NoSQL and graph databases in the market and describes various Neo4j licensing options.
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The Agile Alliance Leadership on Agile 2012 and Beyond
In this set of three short interviews the leadership team of the Agile Alliance and the Agile 2012 conference talk about the work of the Alliance, the themes and ideas embodied in the Agile 2012 conference, the current state of Agile adoption worldwide, the Alliance's involvement internationally and the future direction of the organisation.
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The Larger Purpose of Big Data with Pavlo Baron
Big Data means more than just the size of a dataset. Pavlo Baron explains different ways of applying Big Data concepts in various situations: from analytics, to delivering content, to medical applications. His larger vision for Big Data ranges from specialized Data Scientists, to learning Decision Support Systems, to helping mankind itself.
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Ian Robinson discusses Service Evolution and Neo4J Feature Design
Ian Robinson discusses Neo4J's design choices for data storage and retrieval, CRUD operations, transactions, graph traversal and searches and HA deployment strategies. He also shares his thoughts on hypermedia controls and the concept of consumer driven contracts for continuous evolution of services.
