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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2019
The 8th edition of QCon New York (June 24-26, 2019) wasn’t just a software conference; it was the software conference where leading shops like Slack, Google, Uber, and Netflix opened their doors and shared engineering successes and failures. Over 1200 software engineers came together for technical talks, panels, AMAs, open spaces and networking at QCon.
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Testing Microservices: an Overview of 12 Useful Techniques - Part 1
When building a microservice system, you will need to manage inter-dependent components in order to test in a cost and time effective way. You can use test doubles in your microservice tests that pretend to be real dependencies for the purpose of the test. However, there are many options for implementing this. This article provides an overview and tradeoffs of 12 techniques.
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Fraud Detection Using Random Forest, Neural Autoencoder, and Isolation Forest Techniques
In this article, the authors discuss how to detect fraud in credit card transactions, using supervised machine learning algorithms (random forest, logistic regression) as well as outlier detection approaches using isolation forest technique and anomaly detection using the neural autoencoder.
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Empathy is a Technical Skill
Empathy, like software, is a deeply technical topic that can challenge you in the best way while making your life richer and more rewarding. This article explores how an empathy-focused approach to software development can help pay down technical debt, increase automated test coverage, build trust among team members, and contribute to the overall health of a software system.
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Kubernetes Workloads in the Serverless Era: Architecture, Platforms, and Trends
Explore how microservices architecture has evolved into cloud-native architecture, where many of the infrastructure concerns are provided by Kubernetes in combination with additional abstractions provided by service mesh and serverless frameworks. In addition, the serverless ecosystem is evolving by exploring standard and open packaging, runtimes, and event formats.
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Scrum & The Toyota Production System, Build Ultra-Powerful Teams
How to use the Toyota Production System, as a knowledge-building system, to reveal learning topics on which to work to develop outstanding Scrum teams for exceptional results.
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Unlocking Continuous Testing: The Four Best Practices Necessary for Success
While the majority of organizations have enthusiastically embraced agile planning and development, most still find themselves unable to effectively implement continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle. There are four best practices to help overcome this: focus on test quality, keep your tests short and atomic, test across multiple platforms, and leverage parallelization.
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2019 State of Testing Report
The State of Testing 2019 report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. It shares results from this year’s testing survey.
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Running Single-file Programs without Compiling in Java 11
Starting with Java SE 11, and for the first time in the programming language’s history, you can execute a script containing Java code directly without compilation. The Java 11 source execution feature makes it possible to write scripts in Java and execute them directly from the *inx command line.
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Got NIM?
This article will introduce Nim, a programming language that is said to be more elegant than Python and efficient like C. It is also easily compiled to JavaScript and utilizes user-friendly Tracebacks. Nim is one of the most under-appreciated languages available, and it may be just right for you.
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Java InfoQ Trends Report - July 2019
The InfoQ Java trend report provides an overview of technology adoption and commentary on how we see the Java and JVM-related space evolving in 2019. Key developments include the release of Java 13, the rise of non-HotSpot JVMs and the evolution of GraalVM, and the changing landscape of Java microservice frameworks.
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Stream Processing Anomaly Detection Using Yurita Framework
In this article, author Guy Gerson discusses the stream processing anomaly detection framework they developed by PayPal, called Yurita. The framework is based on Spark Structured Streaming.