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Getting Started with Quarkus

Quarkus created quite a buzz in the enterprise Java ecosystem in 2019. What exactly is Quarkus? How is it different from other technologies established in the market? How can Quarkus help me or my organization? To better explain the motivation behind the Quarkus project, we need to look into the current state of software development.

Roberto Cortez
on Apr 08, 2020
Architecture & Design

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2020

QCon returned to London this past March for its fourteenth year in the city, attracting over 1,600 senior developers, architects, data engineers, team leads, and CTOs. This article provides a summary of the key takeaways.

Abel Avram
on Apr 07, 2020
Java

Java's Missing Features: Five Years Later

Ben Evans revisits his take on Java's Missing Features from 2015 and compares how the language has evolved compared to his observations at the time.

Ben Evans
on Apr 03, 2020
Culture & Methods

Software Teams and Teamwork Trends Report Q1 2020

The Culture & Methods editors team present their take on the topics that are at the front of the technology adoption curve: how to make teams and teamwork more effective, in person or remote, some new tools and techniques, some ideas that have been around for a while and are starting to gain traction, the push for professionalism, ethical behavior and being socially and environmentally aware.

Ben Linders Douglas Talbot Evan Leybourn Craig Smith Shaaron A Alvares Rafiq Gemmail Shane Hastie
on Mar 31, 2020
Java

Spring Boot Tutorial: Building Microservices Deployed to Google Cloud

In this tutorial, the reader will get a chance to create a small Spring Boot application, containerize it and deploy it to Google Kubernetes Engine using Skaffold and the Cloud Code IntelliJ plugin.

Sergio Felix
on Mar 26, 2020 1
Web Development

How to Collect Pieces of Data

Pieces, a new JavaScript library I have created, takes these two problems of routing and page transitions and tackles them together. After all, they're both concerned with what happens when the app changes from one view to another. The idea is that the developer creates the individual pages and lets Pieces worry about everything involved in changing between them.

Martin Rixham
on Mar 24, 2020
Web Development

ING Open-Sources Lion, Its White-Label Web Component Library – Q&A with Thomas Allmer

Web components are now implemented by modern browsers. They are also increasingly popular in an enterprise context. ING adopted them from the beginning and recently open-sourced Lion, its component library which ING uses in most of its web applications, including on mobile. Thomas Allmer, Lion core contributor, explains the drivers of ING's usage of web components, and Lion's design goals.

Thomas Allmer Bruno Couriol
on Mar 20, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book AI Crash Course

The book AI Crash Course by Hadelin de Ponteves contains a toolkit of four different AI models: Thompson Sampling, Q-Learning, Deep Q-Learning and Deep Convolutional Q-learning. It teaches the theory of these AI models and provides coding examples for solving industry cases based on these models.

Ben Linders Hadelin de Ponteves
on Mar 19, 2020
Development

Making Your Code Faster by Taming Branches

Most software code contains conditional branches. In code, they appear in if-then-else clauses, loops, and switch-case constructs. For better performance, modern processors predict the branch and execute the following instructions speculatively. It is a powerful optimization.

Daniel Lemire
on Mar 16, 2020
Culture & Methods

Maintaining Mental health on Software Development Teams

Working on a software development team often means dealing with stress, anxiousness, and tight deadlines. Research has shown developers to have considerably higher chances of experiencing mental health issues than their counterparts, who perform mechanical tasks. Check out these nuggets of wisdom for stabilizing developers’ mental health, shared by Beetroot’s HR psychologist.

Lena Kozar Vova Vovk
on Mar 14, 2020
Web Development

JavaScript and Web Development InfoQ Trends Report 2020

The web development space is always an interesting one for us, with new JavaScript projects launched almost daily. Trying to decide which ones to focus on and which ones to ignore is particularly challenging. Developers can learn and gather inspiration from interesting approaches even if they do not currently use them in their daily development efforts.

Dylan Schiemann Bruno Couriol
on Mar 12, 2020
Culture & Methods

Breaking through Three Common Engineering Myths

This article debunks three common myths that often plague engineers and may be holding them back from reaching their full potential, especially if they are a current or aspiring engineering leader. It also provides some actionable ideas you can implement right away to start making a shift in your own life away from these limiting beliefs.

Jeff Perry
on Mar 11, 2020