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Culture & Methods Culture & Methods Follow 485 Followers
Agile Development & Remote Teams - Six Powerful Productivity Hacks You Should Know
With organizations around the globe trying to go lean, there is a definite rise in distributed and agile work environments today. This article provides advice on overcoming the inherent challenges of this combination. An approach that, rather than fueling another set of conflicts, helps remote teams sort out their priorities and be more productive.
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Architecture & Design Architecture & Design Follow 1634 Followers
Polyglot Persistence Powering Microservices
At Netflix, the cloud database engineering team is responsible for providing several flavors of data persistence as a service to microservice development teams. Roopa Tangirala explained how her team has created self-service tools that help developers easily implement the appropriate data store for each project's needs.
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Culture & Methods Culture & Methods Follow 485 Followers
Architecturally Aligned Testing
Testing microservices should not be done in a separate test phase, by a dedicated test team, but instead collaboratively by cross-functional teams. There is a shift left in testing to ensure that teams stay autonomous and a shift right in testing towards exploration and experimentation. Continuous Testing and a culture of experimentation are enablers to release microservices fast and reliably.
Decision Making in a Company with No Managers
Self-managed companies are a viable option for the future of work. The transformation from standard hierarchical organisation to a flat structure is beneficial, but obviously a challenging process.
Understanding the Nuances of Servant Leadership
Servant leadership is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better organizations and ultimately creates a more just and caring world.
Patterns for Microservice Developer Workflows and Deployment: Q&A with Rafael Schloming
Rafael Schloming argues that one of the most important — although often ignored — questions a development lead should ask is "How do I break up my monolithic process?"
Mastering Blockchain: Book Review and Author Q&A
Packt Publishing Mastering Blockchain aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Blockchain, which is claimed to be able to revolutionize our society. InfoQ has spoken with author Imran Bashir.
Six Tips for Running Scalable Workloads on Kubernetes
Tips to ensure Kubernetes knows what is happening with your deployment: where best to schedule it, when is it ready to serve requests and ensuring work is spread across as many nodes as possible.
Q&A on the Book Company-Wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy
Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy combines and integrates principles and practices into a multi-disciplinary approach for company-wide agile adoption.
Q&A on the Book The Age of Agile
The Age of Agile defines the goals, values, principles, and techniques for Agile management together with stories about how large organizations are applying this to deliver value on a large scale.
The Power of Doubt in Software Testing
Web Development InfoQ Trends Report
In this trends report, we take a look at the web development space, which is always an interesting one for us with a new JavaScript framework launched seemingly every couple of minutes.