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Fostering Healthy Tech Teams in a DevOps World
Building healthy DevOps tech teams that are responsible for a broad area can be challenging. To measure the success of your team, several frameworks provide metrics indicating team health. Psychological safety matters for healthy teams to ensure each software engineer brings their own lived experiences to build better products and that they feel safe to do so.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Munich: Learn from German Automotive, Banking, and TelCo Software Practitioners
InfoQ Dev Summit Munich is a two-day in-person software development conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders in the Bavarian capital on September 26th and 27th. The sessions will cover critical topics such as generative AI and platform engineering, with use cases from the German automotive, banking, and telecommunication industries.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston: Save up to 60% with Our Special Memorial Day Sale
InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 24-25) is running a special Memorial Day Sale with significant discounts of up to 60% off. This is your chance to learn actionable insights from 20+ senior software practitioners on today's critical development priorities. Get clarity on Generative AI, security, modern web apps, and more from senior software practitioners with two days of technical talks.
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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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Modern Data Architecture, ML, and Resilience Topics Announced for QCon San Francisco 2024
QCon San Francisco returns November 18-22, focusing on innovations and emerging trends you should pay attention to in 2024. With technical talks from international software practitioners, QCon will provide actionable insights and skills you can take back to your teams.
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People, Planet, Cloud and AI: Key Takeaways from QCon London
This year’s QCon London brought a wealth of talks directly or indirectly related to software architecture, ranging from the rise of AI to more established areas like anything cloud-related to the usual classics like architecture quality traits . The conference also featured many talks about sociotechnical aspects of software architecture and engineering and broadly considered sustainability.
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Catalyzing Change in Software Organizations: Find Allies, Invite People, and Sustain Engagement
Much of the change we experience in software organizations is coercive. Software engineers, architects, and people in software engineering management roles feel they cannot spark change without formal authority, Eb Ikonne mentioned at QCon London 2024. To catalyze change, he suggested identifying allies, inviting people to participate in the change, and sustaining engagement through storytelling.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston & Munich: Actionable Insights on Generative AI, Security, Modern Web Apps
Sharpen your dev skills and stay ahead of the curve with the InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 24-25), and InfoQ Dev Summit Munich (September 26-27). Learn the emerging trends, explore the use cases, and implement the best practices directly from leading senior software practitioners.
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For Practitioners, by Practitioners: Solve Your Software Challenges at InfoQ & QCon Software Events
Behind every InfoQ Dev Summit and QCon software development conference is a collective of distinguished senior software practitioners who carefully curate the topics based on the crucial trends and essential best practices you need to know about. These architects and leaders are charged with creating THE conference they would want to attend.
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How a Game of Patterns Can Help Software Organisations to Gain Insights and Improve
Patterns can help us to understand how things work and how cultures develop. The game in an organisational system is about recognizing patterns and anti-patterns. According to Tiani Jones, leaders should work on the system rather than in the system and create the conditions for the development and sustainment of good patterns in software organisations.
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Thoughtworks’ VP of Data and AI Shares Insights for Building a Robust Data Product at QCon London
During his QCon London presentation, Danilo Sato, vice president of data & AI at Thoughtworks, reemphasized the importance of using domain-driven design and Team Topologies principles when implementing data products. This ensures effective data encapsulation in a more complex landscape where data responsibilities are “shifting left” towards the developer.
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QCon London: Scaling Microservices Architecture and Technology Organization at Trainline
During the recent QCon London conference, Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of the company’s system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years. The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations by improving the performance and reliability of its technology platform.
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Building a Platform to Gain an Unexpected Competitive Advantage: Ranbir Chawla at QCon London
During his QCon London presentation, Ranbir Chawla presented the journey his team took from moving from an “architectural perfect storm” and a highly manual operational system to a product company with a modern event-based architecture that can be released in < 1 hour. The company now focuses on providing real business outcomes to its stakeholders, and ensuring developers find joy in their work.
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Borderless Cloud at QCon London: Q&A with Adora Nwodo
At QCon London, Adora Nkowno, senior software engineer at NexaScale, discussed the complexities of seamlessly integrating multiple clouds into application architecture, deployment processes, and CI/CD pipelines. Her session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on the first day of the conference, and InfoQ did an interview.
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QCon London: Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures
At QCon London 2024, Bernd Ruecker recommended implementing long-running tasks asynchronously with a process-orchestration platform. Such a platform provides better service boundaries and efficiencies and reduces accidental system complexity and risk. Organizing the platform centrally in an organization eases orchestration adoption by applications.