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Low-Code Platforms and the Rise of the Community Developer: Lots of Solutions, or Lots of Problems?
Low-code platforms are the hottest enterprise software category right now. With the current level of investment, it is hard to imagine a future that doesn’t feature lots of bespoke business apps being built by non-IT staff for use by their teams. Visibility of low code solutions is the key to managing risk.
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How Apache Pulsar is Helping Iterable Scale its Customer Engagement Platform
In this article, author Greg Methvin discusses his experience implementing a distributed messaging platform based on Apache Pulsar.
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A Seven-Step Guide to API-First Integration
For a successful digital transformation project, following an API-first approach is more effective and future proof than using an integration-first approach.
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Sooner, Safer, Happier: a Q&A with Jon Smart from DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2020
At DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas, Jonathan Smart gave a keynote talk titled ‘Leading for Better Value Sooner Safer Happier’. Smart is the only person who has spoken at every DevOps Enterprise Summit London conference and each time in Las Vegas since 2017, previously from his role as head of ways of working at Barclays.
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Q&A on the Book Untapped Agility
The book Untapped Agility by Jesse Fewell explains what holds organizations back in increasing their agility. It describes barriers that may appear during an agile transformation and provides “rebound” moves for unblocking the transformation and moving forward. This recurring pattern of Boost, then Barrier, then Rebound both encourages and enables frustrated agile champions.
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Q&A on the Book Further, Faster
Businesses that thrive over the long term can focus on just a few things that truly matter to their teams and core customers. The book Further, Faster by Bill Flynn provides ideas for business leaders to build teams, create a strategy to stay close to customers, and manage a company’s growth with cash as the primary metric.
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Book Review and Q&A on "Standing on Shoulders: A Leader's Guide to Digital Transformation"
The book “Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation” provides an introduction to relevant thinking and practices on how to identify and address the major bottlenecks and concerns for transforming organizations. The authors share their industry experience applying these ideas, and how the move to remote working might change our approach to digital transformation.
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Q&A on the Book Leading Lean
Leading Lean by Jean Dahl describes a journey that leaders can embark on to respond to disruptive change. It leads them through the six dimensions of leading self, others, the customer, and the enterprise, by creating an innovative culture that delivers value. It provides not just the theory behind Modern Lean, but also practical methods, tools, strategies, and case studies.
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Q&A on the Book Leveraging Digital Transformation
The book Leveraging Digital Transformation - Proven Leadership and Innovation Strategies to Engage and Grow Your Organization by M. Nadia Vincent is a guide for implementing digital transformations. It explores how to lead a digital transformation, how to engage people into the transformation, and what can be done to enable digitalization and innovation.
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Using a DDD Approach for Validating Business Rules
If the goal is to create software applications that emulate the behavior of domain experts, then the challenge is in capturing and implementing the business rules. This is more a factor of good knowledge management than it is raw coding ability. Following techniques from Domain-Driven Design can provide a structure for effectively validating and implementing business rules in a system.
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Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2020
An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2020, with a focus on fundamental architectural patterns, framework usage, and design skills.
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Multi-Runtime Microservices Architecture
Best practices have emerged around “microservice” architecture and “12-factor app” design. As cloud, containers, and container orchestrators (.g. Kubernetes) have become popular, new solutions to address common integration principles have emerged. This article discusses the approach of using "mecha" components to provide enterprise integration pattern functionality for microservices.