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This article will introduce Nim, a programming language that is said to be more elegant than Python and efficient like C. It is also easily compiled to JavaScript and utilizes user-friendly Tracebacks. Nim is one of the most under-appreciated languages available, and it may be just right for you.
Nicky Wrightson gives some practical insight into how to handle failure in today's more complex distributed microservice systems. This includes looking at approaches to resiliency, understanding a system, understanding the requirements for fault tolerance, and the developers' mindset necessary for this. She shares real-world examples, and an occasional war story along the way too.
Dana Lewis, a founder of the open source artificial pancreas (OpenAPS) movement, discusses open source innovation in unexpected places (like healthcare) and how we can democratize data (and innovation processes) to enable more people to solve the most pressing problems in their lives.
Nick Caldwell discusses the three ingredients for inspiring non-manager leaders to emerge and provides simple techniques any team member can apply. He uses stories to help illustrate how to inspire leadership at many levels in the organization. He shares real-world advice for managers, individual contributors, and architects in inspiring leadership and igniting the fire.
Gareth Rushgrove looks at examples of tools that move security controls into code, with a focus on ModSecurity, InSpec and Open Policy Agent, explores the properties of successful infrastructure management tools, what is missing in security tools today, and how policy as code can work at the team level; who has responsibility for what and how this encourages collaboration.
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