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Microsoft Announces Azure Active Directory Plugin for Cordova
MS Open Tech has announced a Cordova plugin which allows developers to use Active Directory Authentication in their apps for Android, iOS, Windows Store, and Windows Phone platforms to access the APIs that it protects, such as Office 365, Azure, Graph API, etc.
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Polymer 0.8 Comes with Performance Improvements and Breaking Changes
The Polymer team has made available Polymer 0.8 alpha with a “proposed API for 1.0” but it is “not compatible with the 0.5 API” having many breaking changes. The library has been optimized for size and performance and it is not yet feature complete.
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From Agile Cargo Cult to Agile Organizations
Avishai Ish-Shalom talked about the importance of moving from agile cargo cult to agile organizations at DevOps Days Ljubljana 2015. He gives some practical examples and guidance for taking full advantage of Conway's Law.
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Raffi Krikorian Provides Guidance for “Re-architecting on the Fly”
At the inaugural O’Reilly Software Architecture conference, Raffi Krikorian discussed strategies and tactics for technical leads and architects who are undertaking a system rewrite. Drawing on his experience as VP of Twitter Engineering, Krikorian discussed a twelve point plan for managing a re-architecting, including defining “done”, instrumenting existing systems, and enforcing code quality.
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Mirantis Joins Cloud Foundry Foundation But Stays Focused on OpenStack
Pure Play OpenStack company, Mirantis has announced that it is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation.
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Key Takeaways from DevOps Days Ljubljana 2015
DevOps Days Ljubljana 2015 took place on the 3rd and 4th April and talks covered the full CAMS spectrum: Culture, Automation, Measurement and Sharing.
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Anti-patterns for Handling Failure
Oliver Hankeln shares the anti-patterns he found for handling failure in organizations: hiding mistakes, engaging in blame game, the arc of escalation and cowardice. He then suggests corrective actions for each of them.
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10 Lessons on Hiring Engineers
Rodoljub Petrović shares his lessons learned from growing engineering teams for years. If you want to change your organization's culture, take care of your hiring process and give it top priority. And follow these lessons.
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Swagger Founder Makes Commitment to Keep Project Open
With SmartBear Software recently announcing that they are assuming responsibility for the Swagger API open-source project, many companies involved in API development tools have wondered if there will be major changes. Questions are also coming from the open-source community and from professional API developers. InfoQ interviewed Tony Tam, founder of the Swagger project.
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The Architecture of a Scalable and Resilient Google Cloud Solution
Google has recently published a paper providing architectural guidelines for creating a scalable and resilient solution running on their cloud platform. This article digests the respective paper extracting the main ideas and advice. These guidelines can be used with minor changes for deploying web applications on other clouds.
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SemVer Confuses. NPM Tries to Help
NPM has released the SemVer calculator, a tool to help developers determine if a SemVer selector string matches the correct versions.
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TypeScript 1.5: Modules, Decorators, Sublime Text Plug-in and More
Microsoft has released TypeScript 1.5 alpha incorporating a number of new features, including: modules, decorators, a plug-in for Sublime Text, for…of loops, ES6 Unicode, computed properties and let/const compilation to ES5.
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AWS Adds Dense-Storage Instances to Amazon EC2
Amazon Web Services announced a new instance type called D2 which is optimised for Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehouses, log processing, and MapReduce jobs.
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PostgreSQL advances in the JSON datastore landscape
This article discusses PostgreSQL as a JSON datastore in a world of document storage systems. JSON based datastores have been gaining popularity in the past years. Following on the increasing popularity of MongoDB, CouchDB, RethinkDB, ToroDB and others are focusing on storing and retrieving JSON documents as seamlessly as possible...Is PostgreSQL going to be your next JSON database?...we answer it
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What is Blocking Adoption of Servant Leadership
Although the world has changed we still worship ideas from ancient management heroes says Tomasz Wykowski. Our behavior changes quite slowly. To get servant leadership adopted in organizations you need to start from yourself and be an example. Give trust to people and respect them, and invite them to change.