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How to Build Large Scale Cyber-Physical Systems
To build large-scale safety-critical systems, we need to decompose the system into smaller solvable problems, resolve what is known, and resolve unknowns through experiments, Robin Yeman argued. She suggested investing in test environments for both software and hardware early to enable being test-driven early to increase the safety, security, reliability, and availability of the systems.
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The Challenges of Building Cyber-Physical Systems
There are several challenges in building hardware-reliant cyber-physical systems, such as hardware lead times, organisational structure, common language, system decomposition, cross-team communication, alignment, and culture. A solution to such challenges is to apply agile at the systems level, and to architect both hardware and software into modular components.
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Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process for Tech Decisions
The analytic hierarchy process uses pairwise comparisons and scoring for criteria between the alternatives to give insights into what the best option is and why. John Riviello spoke about applying the analytic hierarchy process to decide what JavaScript framework to use at QCon New York 2023.
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How Growing Tech Engineers Enables Growing Yourself as a Leader
It’s challenging to grow into a new role when you are still holding on to what you have been good at and really love, and what you’ve been doing in your previous role. By attaching to everything you used to do, you are also depriving the people around you of an opportunity to grow and learn to master those skills and take on those responsibilities too.
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Improving Developer Efficiency with Policy Automation at DoorDash
DoorDash recently leveraged Open Policy Agent to enhance the efficiency of their developers. The infrastructure team at DoorDash observed several advantages from this, including quicker reviews of changes to infrastructure policies, more comprehensive tagging of resources, and a notable decrease in the number of incidents resulting from policy violations.
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Embracing Complexity and Emergence in Organisations
Focusing on the actual emerging organisation and the work people are doing can make a difference in embracing complexity and dealing with it a bit better. Psychological safety is critical for people giving feedback without fearing retribution or negative consequences. Fred Hebert spoke about embracing complexity at QCon New York 2023.
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Building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile: Learnings from QCon New York
In her QCon New York 2023 talk Success Patterns for building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile, Robin Yeman explored how we can use agile practices at scale for large initiatives with multiple teams, building cyber-physical safety-critical systems with a scope that includes software, firmware, and hardware development.
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Approaches and Techniques to Break Down Silos: Learnings from QCon New York
At QCon New York 2023, Emily Webber presented Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organisations, where she showed a worrying trend in the industry of specialisation and silos at the expense of collaboration, shared responsibility, and valuable outcomes. She shared some approaches and techniques to break silos down to work together better.
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A Culture of Continuous Experimentation: Learnings from QCon New York
At QCon New York 2023, Sarah Aslanifar presented Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation. She showed how fostering a culture of continuous experimentation and leveraging the principle of continuous learning can drive efficiency, eliminate waste, and improve product outcomes.
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Descaling for Delivery and Using AI to Enhance Software Development: Learnings from QCon New York
The track Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow - Surviving in the Post-agile Aftermath at QCon New York 2023 comprised two talks in the morning that went into replacing an agile process with engineering and conversational software delivery using AI.
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Challenges and Skills for Staff+ Engineering, Learnings from QCon New York
The QCon New York 2023 track Staff+ Engineering: New Skills, New Challenges comprised four talks that went into decisions with buy-in, growing people, the art of staff+, and deciding between individual contributions and leading people.
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QCon New York 2023: Living on the Edge with Erica Pisani
Erica Pisani, Sr. software engineer at Netlify, presented Living on the Edge at QCon New York 2023. Pisani discussed: edge computing anatomy; communication between users, edge locations and origin servers; various edge computing challenges with corresponding solutions; and introduced the AWS Snowball Edge Device. Pisani spoke to InfoQ to learn more about edge computing.
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QCon New York 2023: Day Three Recap
Day Three of the 9th annual QCon New York conference was held on June 15th, 2023, at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, included keynote addresses by Suhail Patel and Sarah Bird, and presentations from four conference tracks.
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QCon New York 2023 Panel Discussion: Navigating the Future - LLM in Production
The recent QCon New York conference featured a panel discussion titled "Navigating the Future: LLM in Production." Some key takeaways are that there are two trends in LLMS: closed models behind APIs and open-source models, and that organizations using LLMs will need to think deeply about testing and evaluating the models themselves, with a strong emphasis on risk mitigation.
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Java News Roundup: GraalVM 23.0.0, Payara Platform, Spring 6.1-M1, QCon New York
This week's Java roundup for June 12th, 2023 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM 23, various releases of: GraalVM Build Tools, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Shell, Payara Platform, Micronaut, Open Liberty, Quarkus, Micrometer, Hibernate ORM and Reactive, Project Reactor, Piranha, Apache TomEE, Apache Tomcat, JDKMon, JBang, JHipster, Yupiik Bundlebee; and QCon New York 2023.