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People Are More Complex Than Computers: Growing the Equal Experts' Team and Culture
Earlier this week, in QConLondon 2019, Mairead O’Connor from Equal Experts presented on the topic “People are more complex than computers”. In this talk, O'Connor presented on the way that Equal Experts managed to grow into a network of 1,500 people, with over 800 of them being consultants and the organisational and cultural challenges that come with creating this unique organisational structure.
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How Airbnb Simplified the Kubernetes Workflow for 1000+ Engineers
Melanie Cebula talked about the internal tooling and strategies Airbnb adopted to support over 1000 engineers concurrently configuring and deploying over 250 critical services to Kubernetes. One key enabler was a layer of abstraction and generation of Kubernetes configuration from higher level primitives using standardized environments and namespaces (and automated validations whenever possible).
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FlexSearch.js: A Fast, Zero-Dependency Full-Text Search Library
FlexSearch, a full-text, zero-dependency search library for the browser and Node.js claims to be the fastest search library available to JavaScript developers due to its novel scoring algorithm.
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Open Source Benefits to Innovation and Organizational Agility
Capital One hosted their 3rd Agile Conference in December 2018 in Virginia. Among the guest speakers, Andrew Aitken, global open source strategy leader at Wipro, presented the state of open source and how it is becoming an industry-wide organizational keystone strategy in driving innovation and in retaining top talent.
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Building Services at Scale at Airbnb: QCon London Q&A
The re-architecture to SOA at Airbnb improved the performance of the services and site reliability. Faster build and deploy times led to increased developer productivity, and improving clarity and boundaries for ownership increased efficiency. Jessica Tai, a software engineer at Airbnb, presented Airbnb’s Great Migration: Building Services at Scale at QCon London 2019.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Java Support in Azure Functions
Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Java support in Azure Functions V2.0. Developers can now write functions in Java 8 and take advantage of the Maven-powered developer experience provided by Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, Eclipse, and the cross-platform Functions Core Tools.
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How to Grow Teams That Can Fail without Fear: QCon London Q&A
Blameless failure starts with building a culture where failure is acknowledged, shared, investigated, remedied, and prevented, said Emma Button, a DevOps and cloud consultant, at QCon London 2019. Visualising the health and state of your system with CI/CD practices can increase trust and ownership and invite people to help out when things fail.
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Building Self-Contained, Installable Java Applications with JEP 343: Packaging Tool
The OpenJDK community has released an early access build of JEP 343: Packaging Tool. JEP 343: Packaging Tool, also known as jpackage, is a new tool for packaging self-contained Java applications along with a Java Runtime Environment.
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Deliveroo Adopts Rust to Improve Performance in Core Service
Deliveroo reimplemented performance-critical components of their Dispatcher service in Rust, with an overall 4x performance improvement. InfoQ spoke with Deliveroo engineer Andrii Dmytrenko to learn more about the advantages they got from this rewrite and what it took to get there.
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Chaos Engineering Observability: Q&A with Russ Miles
In a new O’Reilly report, “Chaos Engineering Observability: Bringing Chaos Experiments into System Observability”, the author, Russ Miles, explores why he believes the topics of observability and chaos engineering “go hand in hand”. He argues that as engineers begin to run chaos experiments, they will need to be able to ask many questions about the underlying system being experimented on.
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Amazon Releases Corretto 8 GA: A Downstream Distribution of OpenJDK
Amazon recently released Corretto 8 GA, a "no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution" of OpenJDK. Corretto was introduced as a preview release last November at Devoxx Belgium by Arun Gupta, principal open source technologist at Amazon Web Services, and Yishai Galatzer, senior engineering manager at Amazon Web Services. Gupta spoke to InfoQ about this latest Corretto GA release.
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Scaling, Incident Management and Collaboration at New York Times Engineering
The New York Times Engineering Team wrote about their approach to scaling and incident management against the backdrop of increased traffic during the November 2018 US midterm elections.
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San Francisco: QCon.ai Schedule Nearing Completion
April 15-17 software engineering teams will gather in the Bay area for the Second Annual QCon.ai Software Conference. QCon.ai is focused on helping teams adopt and validate roadmaps in machine learning by hearing and learning from those that are doing it today. What truly differentiates QCon.ai is its machine learning focus given through the lens of the software engineer.
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Microsoft Announces Two New Azure Cloud Services Allowing Developers to Build Cross-Platform AR Apps
At the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Microsoft announced two new services: Azure Spatial Anchors and Azure Remote Rendering. Both services will allow developers to build cross-platform and contextual mixed reality applications.
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Hyperscript Tagged Markup: A JSX Alternative Based on Standard JavaScript
The Hyperscript Tagged Markup (HTM) library, which proposes an alternative to JSX, released its second major iteration. HTM 2.0 is a rewrite that is faster and smaller than HTM 1.x, has a syntax closer to JSX, and now supports Server-Side Rendering (SSR). With HTM 2.0, developers may enjoy simplified React/Preact workflows for modern browsers.