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Predicting Time to Cook, Arrive, and Deliver at Uber Eats
Time predictions are critical to Uber Eats' business as they determine when to dispatch delivery partners as well as ensure customer satisfaction. This article explains how their dispatch system evolved through time predictions powered by machine learning, followed by a deep dive on how to predict food preparation time without ground truth data. It goes over delivery and travel time predictions.
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13 Practices for Better Code Reviews
When done incorrectly, code review can be irritating, excessively time consuming, and have little or no impact on code quality. However, if done well, it can improve the quality of code and reduce the overall time spent delivering features. This article provides several good practices regarding both technical and cultural aspects of code review.
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Book Review: A Leader's Guide to Cybersecurity
A Leader's Guide to Cybersecurity educates readers about how to prevent a crisis and/or take leadership when one occurs. With a focus on clear communication, the book provides details, examples, and guidance of mapping security against what a business actually does. The book describes ways to align security with the motivation of others who may be security-agnostic against their own goals.
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How to Use Redis TimeSeries with Grafana for Real-Time Analytics
In this article, author Roshan Kumar discusses how a purpose-built database like RedisTimeSeries can be used to manage time-series data. He also shows how to visualize this data in a Grafana dashboard.
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Porting a Desktop Game Editor to the Browser with WebAssembly
Florian Rival, software engineer at Google and creator of the GDevelop game editor, discusses the lessons learnt from porting a native desktop game editor to the browser with WebAssembly. InfoQ interviewed Rival on the technical challenges encountered, the benefits derived from the port, and tips for developers thinking about porting desktop applications with WebAssembly.
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Newly Announced Ecstasy Programming Language Targets Cloud-Native Computing
Ecstasy has been co-created by former Tangosol founders Cameron Purdy and Gene Gleyzer, and they recently showcased the language at CloudNative London 2019. InfoQ got together with Purdy to ask some questions about the language and the problems it’s designed to solve.
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Testing Microservices: Six Case Studies with a Combination of Testing Techniques - Part 3
This article presents six real world use cases of testing microservice-based applications, and demonstrates how a combination of testing techniques can be evaluated, chosen, and implemented.
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Java Feature Spotlight: Local Variable Type Inference
In Java Futures at QCon New York, Java Language Architect Brian Goetz took us on a whirlwind tour of some recent and future features in the Java Language. In this article, he dives into Local Variable Type Inference.
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Using Docker Application Packages to Deliver Apps across Teams
In this article, we will look at how the CNAB packaging format provides application providers and developers with a way of installing a multi-component application into a distributed computing environment, supporting many executable units, and makes it easy to deliver apps across teams, organizations and marketplaces.
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The Current and Future State of Testing: a Conversation with Lisa Crispin
Lisa Crispin talks about the current and future state of testing, how testing works in agile environments, the value testers bring to DevOps, testing machine learning and where testing is headed. Testing is a communication activity and communication skills are vital to successfully leveraging testing skills and knowledge in modern software development.
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A First Look at Java Inline Classes
Java currently supports only two types of value: primitives and object references. Project Valhalla extends this by introducing inline classes which are a new form of type that exhibit some behaviors of both. These new types open the door to better alignment with modern CPUs and considerable potential performance improvements for Java applications.
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Three Major Cybersecurity Pain Points to Address for Improved Threat Defense
Three pain points every company must address when addressing cybersecurity include threat volume and complexity, a growing cybersecurity skills gap, and the need for threat prioritization. This article describes each of these in some detail, and includes recommendations for corporations to deal with them.