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A Brief Introduction to Incident.MOOG with Rob Markovich
Recently we caught up with Rob Markovich, CMO of Moogsoft, to talk about the new version of their early warning system, Incident.MOOG.
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Reducing Project Build Times on Visual Studio 2015
Microsoft's new partnership with Xoreax has produced a "freemium" version of IncrediBuild for Visual Studio users. This tool uses several techniques to dramatically reduce project build times for several different project types.
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To the Moon: Parallels Between Space Missions and Developing Software
Russ Olsen did the opening keynote titled "To the Moon" at the GOTO Berlin 2015 conference. InfoQ interviewed him about drawbacks of doing all the things at the same time to meet the deadline, learning from things that went wrong and from things that went right, how little things can kill you in software development, and how to focus and deal with details when doing complex work.
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The Role of Configuration Management in a Containerized World
The widespread adoption of Docker in infrastructure automation has led to a growing debate as to whether it supersedes configuration management. The consensus seems to be that both will co-exist in a complementary way.
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ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core RC Ready for Production
Microsoft recently released .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 Release Candidate, supported on Windows, OS X and Linux. Microsoft states this release is ready for production and will support it. Both release candidates are considered feature complete on Windows, OS X and Linux, although minor features may still be added until the final release.
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Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 Adds C# Scripting and New Language Support
The first update to Visual Studio 2015 has been released, and it brings with it a raft of changes. A number of new languages are now supported in the VS editor, and a C# scripting API and REPL was added. Other additions include .NET Famework 4.6.1 and Parallel Test Support which takes advantage of multi-core development machines.
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Leadership Principles for Agile Organizations
Selena Delesie gave a keynote at the Agile Testing Days 2015 about leadership principles that she sees in successful agile companies. InfoQ interviewed her about how leadership principles from Sir Richard Branson are related to the foundations of agile and asked her which principles are giving companies a competitive edge and how companies can deploy agile to become more competitive.
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Best Practices for Open-source Projects
GitHub’s Phil Haack hosted a panel on Channel 9 that focused on best practices for open source projects.
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Java 9 Delayed By 6 Months?
Oracle's Java Chief Architect Mark Reinhold has proposed delaying the release of Java 9 for 6 months to allow for more complete testing of the modularity features at the heart of the release.
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Security Release for DOS Vulnerability in Node.js
The Node Foundation has announced vulnerabilities in versions of Node.js from v0.12.x through to v5.x "whereby an external attacker can cause a denial of service."
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Microservices and Integration from an Enterprise Perspective
Common misconceptions in large enterprises that Kim Clark meets are that microservices are fine grained WSDL operations or that APIs are microservices. A reason for this is that they are confusing interface granularity with component granularity, Clark claimed in a presentation at this year’s Microservices Conference in London.
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Introducing Microsoft PowerApps
At the Convergence EMEA 2015 conference, Microsoft introduced its latest service called Microsoft PowerApps. The service is currently in limited preview which will allow selected enterprise customers the opportunity to use the service prior to a general availability release.
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Agile Testers can be a Harlequin
Agile testers can signal and question the (testing) process. Marnix van den Ent gave a talk at the Agile Testing Days 2015 in which he explained how he views testers as a harlequin: "a servant to the team and its process, like the Italian Harlequin he is there to help to understand what is happening". An interview about developing an art of questioning, XP practices and retrospectives.
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Introducing Amazon Inspector
At the recent Re:Invent conference, Amazon announced a new security assessment and compliance service. The service is called Amazon Inspector and is currently in preview.
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How to be Successful Running Docker in Production
John Fiedler, Sr Director of Engineering at Salesforce IQ spoke at DockerCon EU on how to be successful running Docker in production backing it up with his own experience during the last two years. Fiedler recommends not to jump directly to use all the tools available around Docker, but executing a step by step strategy when moving services to containers.