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Cheryl Hung on Trends in Cloud Native and DevOps for 2021
In a recent keynote for The DEVOPS Conference, Cheryl Hung, VP ecosystem for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), shared her top 10 predictions for cloud native in the upcoming year. This includes improvements in cross cloud support, growth in GitOps and chaos engineering practices, and an increase in the adoption of FinOps.
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Applying Cynefin in Agile Retrospective
Sense-making can prevent teams from jumping to the first solution that comes to mind. Cynefin helps teams decide what to do in their retrospective after informed sense-making. Facilitators can use Cynefin to enhance transitions from gathering data to generating insights in retrospectives.
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Engaging All Generations with Adaptable Reward and Recognition Systems
Reward and recognition systems should be adaptable, agile, and take contexts into consideration. All generations want three things - to be respected, rewarded and recognised for their work. The motivation and the form factor of the rewards are what differ for the generations. You need to be creative and keep reward and recognition systems fresh, and tailor them to teams.
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Patterns and Antipatterns of Business Agility
At a recent WellyBam event the authors of the book Sooner, Safer, Happier shared the key ideas and explained the patterns and antipatterns of business agility adoption they have found through working on transformation in a wide range of organisations.
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Developing Testing Skills outside of Working Hours
Gamifying your way of testing, joining online testing communities of practice, and virtual traveling; these are examples of activities you can do outside of working hours that can make you a better tester. You can practice continuous learning with other testers in the world, and then implement things you learned at your workplace and share them with your team to improve ways of testing.
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The Pillars of Future Cryptography at IBM
In a recent webinar, IBM summarized the latest advances in cryptographic technologies the company has been working on, including confidential cryptography, quantum-safe encryption, and fully homomorphic cryptography.
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SPACE, a New Framework to Understand and Measure Developer Productivity
A recent paper by researchers at GitHub, University of Victoria, and Microsoft delves into developer productivity to propose a new approach to defining, measuring and predicting it. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with the paper lead author, GitHub vice-president of research & strategy Nicole Forsgren.
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Using Machine Learning in Testing and Maintenance
With machine learning, we can reduce maintenance efforts and improve the quality of products. It can be used in various stages of the software testing life-cycle, including bug management, which is an important part of the chain. We can analyze large amounts of data for classifying, triaging, and prioritizing bugs in a more efficient way by means of machine learning algorithms.
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How Spotify Leverages Paved Paths and Common Tooling to Improve Productivity
Maria Jernström and Jason Palmer, two product managers at Spotify, shared how the company enables their development teams to operate quickly and in alignment. The Platform Developer Experience tribe builds CI/CD tools, product creation tooling, and paved paths with a focus on automating common processes.
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Sustainable Internet: Reducing the Environmental Impact
To be sustainable, the internet needs to assess, mitigate, and live up to its responsibilities for a healthy environment. By understanding the environmental impact, we can point to avenues where progress is possible and identify aspects of our digital infrastructures that come with unintended consequences that are too severe to look the other way.
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Manuel Pais on Team Topologies during COVID-19
Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies, recently spoke alongside leaders of Capra Consulting who have used the topologies to move from hierarchical structures to empowered teams. We report on the journey and speak to Pais about team topologies in the context of COVID-19.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of Mar 1st, 2021
InfoQ examines a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 1st, 2021.
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Paving the Road to Production at Coinbase: QCon Plus Q&A
As Coinbase scaled both their number of engineers and customers, they needed more projects, faster iteration, and more control over their growing infrastructure. In developing their in-house deployment tool by looking at what developers were doing and trying to help them, they created a culture of self-service.
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How Kanban Can Support Evolutionary Change
Evolutionary change is about starting where you are and improving one small change at a time. You need a stressor, a reflection mechanism, and an act of leadership to provoke change and institutionalize it. Understanding empathy allows change agents to find out what resonates with someone and work around resistance.
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Characteristics of Agile Leaders
Agile leaders are passionate about agile practices. They look to instill trust in their people, create transparency and are open to constructive criticism so that great work can be achieved. They focus on the vision and customers. Understanding what agile means, they give autonomy to the people, support them, and encourage them to develop and grow through learning and experimentation.