InfoQ Homepage Continuous Improvement Content on InfoQ
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The Java Ecosystem Remains Ever-Green by Continuously Adapting to Developers' Needs
Kevin Dubois and Thomas Vitale, two cloud-native enthusiasts in the Java ecosystem, discuss the evolution of frameworks and tooling that has led to increased development and developer joy. They cover everything from Testcontainers to incorporating LLMs in existing applications, as well as how to ensure the code quality remains high, even with the proliferation of code generation tooling.
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Designing for Knowledge Flow with Diana Montalion
In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Diana Montalion about how architecture is designing for knowledge flow. The conversation covers the differences between knowledge stock and knowledge flow and the importance of a growth mindset. If you’re trying to find new ways to solve problems, you have to start by thinking in new ways.
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Crossing the Feedback Chasm - a Conversation with Ken Finnigan
Michael Stiefel spoke with Ken Finnigan about how the lack of feedback impedes the development of software professionals. Without feedback, the right candidates are not hired, software professionals cannot improve or grow into new roles, or individuals stagnate or regress in their current positions. Feedback must also be delivered at the right time - when it can be effectively used.
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Frederic Branczyk on Continuous Profiling Leveraging eBPF
Wes Reisz and Frederic Branczyk discuss the origin story of Polar Signals, eBPF (the enabling technology used by Polar Signals), Parca (the open-source system they built to collect continuous profiling data), and more, including things like FrostDB and why profiling data complements what we already have with our current observability stacks.
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Tudor Gîrba on How Moldable Development Offers a Novel Way to Reason about Systems
Charles Humble discusses Moldable Development with its creator Tudor Gîrba, a way of programming where you construct custom tools for every development problem.
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How Blameless Culture Transforms Engineering Teams
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Tameem Hourani about building a blameless engineering culture through radical transparency, focusing on system resilience over individual blame, and creating high-performing teams that can embrace change and learn from failures.
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Tips and Techniques for Improving Retrospectives
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Esther Derby and David Horowitz about the second edition of the Agile Retrospectives book.
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Agile Retrospectives Making Good Teams Even Better
In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Diana Larsen, Esther Derby and David Horowitz about the new edition of the book Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Team Great.
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Gene Kim on Scaling DevOps and Learning from Courageous "Horses" at the DevOps Enterprise Summit
In this podcast Manuel Pais, InfoQ Lead Editor for DevOps, talks to Gene Kim, co-author of the "DevOps Handbook" and "The Phoenix Project" books, on how to scale DevOps in large organizations ("horses") and the need for continuous learning and adaptation.