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Culture & Methods

Achieving Predictability in a Complex World

Predictability is the precursor and enabler for other important things people are looking for, like doing things faster and cheaper, argued Jose Casal at Agile Portugal 2019. He presented how to achieve predictability in three steps: focus on work in progress, reduce time to get work done, and consider how to get more done.

Ben Linders
on Aug 08, 2019
Cloud

Microsoft Releases PowerApps Portals Preview, a Low-Code Customer Portal Solution

In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced PowerApps Portals in preview, a low-code solution for building responsive customer portals. PowerApps Portals is the successor of Dynamics 365 Portals, which generally required developers to use complex web templates. Using PowerApps Portals, people familiar with Microsoft PowerApps can transition those skills into building customer-facing portals.

Kent Weare
on Jul 29, 2019
Architecture & Design

High Scalability Workflow Engine Zeebe is Production Ready

Zeebe is a workflow engine designed to meet the scalability requirements of high-performance applications running on cloud-native and event-driven architectures, and to support workflows that span multiple microservices in low latency, high-throughput scenarios. Zeebe 0.20.0 has just been released as a free community edition and is considered production ready.

Jan Stenberg
on Jul 19, 2019 4
Culture & Methods

Uncovering Sustainable and Scalable Solutions for Digital Transformations

Using the term “digital transformation” limits our change approach to traditional linear management techniques which are ineffective in dealing with today’s organizational complexity. We need to focus on understanding the context and the organization’s inner working to come up with sustainable and scalable solutions for organizational change.

Ben Linders
on Jul 18, 2019
Web Development

Google Formalizes Robots Exclusion Protocol in Effort to Make It an Internet Standard

The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) has governed the rules defining how to prevent crawlers from accessing a website since 1994. Now, Google has submitted a draft to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to make it an Internet Standard. In addition, Google has open sourced its implementation of the protocol.

Sergio De Simone
on Jul 18, 2019
Architecture & Design

Practical Domain-Driven Design with Events and Microservices - Indu Alagarsamy at QCon New York

Domain-driven design (DDD) concepts like Bounded Contexts and Messaging technologies can be used to build reliable systems that can scale with the business changes. Indu Alagarsamy recently spoke at QCon New York 2019 Conference about using the combination of well-defined bounded contexts and events to develop autonomous microservices that are flexible to adapt to the business changes.

Srini Penchikala
on Jul 15, 2019
Development

restQL V3 Released

The latest version of restQL, a microservices query language, has been released, providing notable new features including content aggregation, support for additional HTTP methods, self-healing functionality, and a version for node.js apps. Comprehensive performance improvements have made the latest version up to twice as fast as its predecessor.

Thomas Betts
on Jul 11, 2019 2
Cloud

Introduction to Service Mesh Interface (SMI): Brendan Burns at QCon New York

Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification provides an abstraction layer on top of different service mesh implementations so it'll be easier to swap the implementations w/o changing the processes. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and currently Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, spoke recently at the QCon New York 2019 Conference, about the new specification and its future roadmap.

Srini Penchikala
on Jul 09, 2019
Development

Intel Working on New Data Parallel C++

Announced at its Software Technology Day in London, Intel new Data Parallel C++ aims to provide a unified, cross-industry, single-source language to program heterogeneous architectures.

Sergio De Simone
on Jul 06, 2019
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Celia Kung on LinkedIn's Brooklin Data Streaming Service

Celia Kung from LinkedIn's team spoke at the QCon New York 2019 Conference last week about Brooklin data streaming service that supports pluggable sources and destinations. These can be data stores or messaging systems making the solution flexible and extensible. Brooklin is part of the streams infrastructure platform developed at LinkedIn.

Srini Penchikala
on Jul 04, 2019
DevOps

DOES London: RBS' Jennifer Wood on Conquering the Abyss and Rebirth

Jennifer Wood’s talk, ‘Our Heroes’ Journey to Agility’, opened the proceedings at this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. Wood first spoke at the conference last year, with her ‘The Art of Scaling Agile and DevOps’ and took the opportunity to build on the journey she is witnessing at RBS in her role as chief operating officer.

Helen Beal
on Jul 02, 2019
DevOps

DOES London: Mark Schwartz on War & Peace & IT

Mark Schwartz, former CIO and self-described iconoclast, spoke recently at DevOps Enterprise Summit London. Schwartz is the author of three books published by IT Revolution: ‘The Art of Business’, ‘A Seat at the Table’ and ‘War & Peace & IT,’ and is currently an enterprise strategist at Amazon Web Services.

Helen Beal
on Jul 02, 2019
Web Development

W3C and FIDO Alliance Finalized WebAuthn, Web Standard for Secure, Passwordless Logins

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance recently announced that the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification is now an official web standard. WebAuthn allows users to log in via biometrics, mobile devices and/or FIDO security keys, with higher security over passwords alone.

Bruno Couriol
on Jun 20, 2019
Cloud

Democratizing AI for Business Applications, Microsoft Release AI Builder Preview

At the recent Business Applications Summit in Atlanta, Microsoft announced a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) service for the Power Platform called AI Builder. The new service brings AI capabilities to low code application and workflow services: Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow which run on top of the Common Data Service (CDS), an enterprise-grade datastore.

Kent Weare
on Jun 20, 2019
Architecture & Design

Allegro Launches Hermes 1.0, a REST-based Message Broker Built on Top of Kafka

Allegro has launched version 1.0 of Hermes, a rest API based message broker built on top of Apache Kafka. Whilst not containing any new features, this first major version release is given to the current stable codebase.

Andrew Morgan
on May 20, 2019