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Intelligent Automation on Pace for Explosive Growth, But Organizational Challenges Prevalent
In a recent KPMG study, the professional services organization published a report on the growth of Intelligent Automation. The report suggests that overall spend will reach $232 billion by 2025, compared to $12.4 billion which is spent today. But, this expected growth comes with many challenges, including tool maturity, skilled labor and organizational change management.
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Visual Studio 2017 15.9 Previews Expanded C++ Debugging
Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2017 15.9; this release highlights improvements to C++ debugging and additional features benefiting Universal Windows Application (UWP) developers.
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Eric Evans Says Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Isn't Done
During his keynote at Explore DDD, Eric Evans said "DDD isn't done." Over the past fifteen years since Domain-Driven Design was published, DDD hasn't stood still, and there is still much to do to keep DDD evolving.
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Microsoft Pushes New Azure Offerings into the High-Performance Computing Market
Microsoft is entering the high-performance computing (HPC) market with their announcement of the general availability of Azure CycleCloud, a tool for creating, managing, operating, and optimizing HPC clusters of any scale in Azure. Furthermore, Microsoft announced it would support NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC).
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Compliance in an Agile World
Compliance is about making sure that you are doing the right thing and being able to prove it. With agile and frequent deliveries, you need to build compliance into the process of delivery. Making compliance obligation part of the thing that DevOps teams own increases the likelihood of success.
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Pivotal Releases Spring Cloud Data Version 1.6 Featuring a New App Hosting Tool
Pivotal has released version 1.6 of Spring Cloud Data Flow, a project for building and orchestrating real-time data processing pipelines to runtimes such as the Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Kubernetes and Mesos. New features include an app hosting tool, a scheduler for PCF, and an app repository. Mark Pollack, senior staff engineer at Pivotal, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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How to Achieve a Resilient Architecture
To manage systems at scale you must push your system almost to the breaking point, but still be able to recover – and embrace failures, Adrian Hornsby writes in two blog posts sharing his experiences from working with large-scale systems for more than a decade, and the patterns he has found useful.
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Git 2.19 Improves Diff, Branch, Grep, and More
The latest release of Git brings a wealth of new features and internal changes, including improved diff, branch and grep, better command line completion, a new range-diff command, and more.
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Mozilla Firefox Will Block Web Trackers by Default
Mozilla recently announced that Firefox will block web trackers by default in a near future. Mozilla plans to releases a series of features through three key initiatives, including improving page load performance, removing cross-site tracking, and mitigating harmful practices.
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Strategic Partnership Announced Between Atlassian and Slack: HipChat to Be Discontinued
Atlassian announced that they are entering into a strategic partnership with Slack on July 26, 2018, and will no longer offer their own real-time communications products Hipchat Cloud, Hipchat Data Center, Hipchat Server, and Stride. The partnership enables them to extend existing integrations between their tools and co-build new ones.
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Checked C Extends LLVM to Bring Spatial Memory Safety to C
Checked C is an open, collaborative project led by Microsoft Research aimed to extend the C language so programmers can write more reliable programs free of errors such as buffer overruns, out-of-bounds memory accesses, and incorrect type casts. Checked C code can coexist with code written in standard C to ease porting.
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Data Artisans Announces Serializable ACID Transactions on Streaming Data
Data Artisans has announced the general availability of Streaming Ledger, which extends Apache Flink with capabilities to perform serializable ACID transactions across tables, keys, and event streams. The patent-pending technology is a proprietary add-on for Flink and allows going beyond the current standard where operations could only consistently work on a single key at a time.
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Leading within: Evolving into Agility
Adaptive organizations rely on horizontal leadership where awareness is a fundamental quality for leadership. When we are able to really listen with curiosity, empathy and courage, then our listening changes our perceptions, our relationships, and therefore, our environment.
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How to Work Effectively with Agile in a Remote Team: Trust, Accountability and Communication
In a session titled Being Agile in a Remote Team at the recent Agile2018 conference, Shane Hastie and Shannon Ewan addressed the topic of distributed agile teams and what makes them work. They discussed qualities of high performing teams, myths of remote teams and strategies to make remote teams work while sharing their story of how they work at ICAgile (a fully remote team and organization).
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Jenkins to Focus Efforts on Stability, Ease of Use and Cloud Native Compatibility
The Jenkins project team has decided to split its efforts between focusing on stability issues and on better support for running on platforms like Kubernetes. The former, which will potentially have backward-incompatible changes, will impact the release model and provide a more pre-configured installation, whereas the latter will work on similar lines as the existing Jenkins X project.