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Dealing with the Broken Human Machine: How to Create High-Performing Teams
To really progress in developing software and build anything at a scale, you have to examine your blind spots and learn to deal with people. The culture we build is important: the difference between a high performing engineering team and a low performing one is orders of magnitude in terms of productivity and quality. Focusing on how we do things is as important as what we’re doing.
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Data-Driven Thinking for Continuous Improvement
Organizations need an objective way to measure performance and tie actions back to business outcomes to improve continuously. Avvo uses a data-driven decision framework with an autonomous team model and a practice of retrospectives to help people make better decisions and proposals for continuous improvement.
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Microsoft Announce General Availability of Azure Redis Cache Geo-Replication
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of geo-replication support for the Azure Redis Cache service, Microsoft’s hosted implementation of the open-source Redis cache. The announcement follows a public preview that was announced in June 2017.
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Spring Boot 2.0 Goes GA; Project Lead Phil Webb Speaks to InfoQ about the New Release
Spring custodian Pivotal has announced the widely anticipated release of Spring Boot 2.0. InfoQ speaks to Spring Boot lead Phil Webb about the new release.
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Apple Open Source SwiftNIO, a Low-Level Non-Blocking I/O Framework for Swift
At the recent try! Swift Conference in Tokyo, Apple announced the SwiftNIO project, a Netty-like non-blocking cross-platform I/O framework written in Swift.
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Java EE Becomes Jakarta EE
After Oracle expressed its desire that Java EE be rebranded as part of the project's transfer to Eclipse, the community has voted, and the new name for Java EE going forward will be Jakarta EE. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, wrote in a blog post that almost 7,000 people voted in the community poll, with over 64% choosing "Jakarta EE".
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Popular Python Data Science Platform Anaconda Now Shipping with Microsoft VS Code
Release 5.1 of Anaconda, the data science and machine learning platform, now includes Visual Studio Code as an IDE. This is part of a wider collaborative effort between Anaconda Inc. and Microsoft.
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Cilium 1.0.0-rc4 Released: Transparently Secure Container Network Connectivity Utilising Linux BPF
Cilium is open source software for transparently securing the network connectivity. Cilium 1.0.0-rc4 has recently been released, which includes: the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-hosted Envoy configured as the default HTTP/gRPC proxy; the addition of a simple health overview for connectivity and other errors; and an improved scalable kvstore interaction layer.
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Event-Driven Microservices at O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference NY
We've discussed event driven microservices architectures in the past, and the recent O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference NY had a focus on that topic which The New Stack's Joab Jackson reports upon.
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Google’s Cross-Platform Mobile UI Framework Flutter Now in Beta
Flutter, now in beta, is Google attempt to create a framework for cross-platform interfaces for both iOS and Android apps that behave and feel like native, although not standard, UIs.
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.NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 Released
The first preview of .NET Core 2.1 is now available for download. This gives developers a chance to try out the new features first hand on their local system.
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EF Core: Unifying SQL and NoSQL Databases
One of the original goals of EF Core was to develop a model wherein both SQL and NoSQL style databases could be used with little or no change to the code. Microsoft is taking the first steps towards that goal with an experimental EF provider for Azure Cosmos DB.
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QASymphony Launches New Products for Centralised Test Automation and BDD
Test management vendor, QASymphony, has announced two new products: qTest Launch and qTest Scenario Enterprise as part of its qTest 9 release. qTest Launch provides centralised management for test automation. qTest Scenario Enterprise is aimed at teams practicing behaviour-driven development (BDD).
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Fixing .NET’s HttpClient
As we reported back in 2016, .NET’s HttpClient has some serious issues. With the introduction of HttpClientFactory in .NET Core 2.1, some of those issues have been mitigated.
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Updates in the Nexus Guide Stress the Importance of Integration and Transparency
The major changes in the updated Nexus Guide include clarifications to the role of the Nexus Integration team, an explanation on how transparency at scale looks, and alignment with the 2017 Scrum Guide. The Nexus Guide is a framework that helps organizations to scale Scrum.