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More Reliable Delivery with Monte Carlo & Mapping
Conal Scanlon talks about how to use Monte Carlo simulations to remove the guesswork from planning, story mapping to discover the story up front, and reviews an example of how to automate a forecast.
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Development Metrics You Should Use But Don't
Cat Swetel discusses new ways and tools to visualize a team’s reliability and variability of delivery using the data already collected.
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Migrating Speedment to Java 9
Dan Lawesson talks about his experience migrating Speedment to Java 9.
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Serverless Security and Things That Go Bump in the Night
Erik Peterson discusses Serverless architectures and what they mean for the future of cloud applications. Peterson also explores how existing security challenges change and new ones emerge.
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C# 7, 8 and beyond: Language Features from Design to Release to IDE Support
Kevin Pilch tours C# 7, highlighting new features -pattern matching, tuples, local functions and more-, sharing insights into the language design process, and discussing potential features for C# 8.
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The Top Five Secrets to Improving Team Communication
Debbie Madden discusses a five step plan to improve communication on a team, and to create a team that people want to be a part of, providing an actionable plan to work on.
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The Java Evolution of Eclipse Collections
Kristen O'Leary talks about some of the newest features from the 8.0.0 release including the use of Java 8 features such as Collectors, Optional and SummaryStatistics.
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Fearless AWS Lambdas
John Chapin overviews JVM on AWS Lambda, and gives strategies, tips, and examples for developing efficient, performant AWS Lambda functions in a variety of JVM languages.
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Scaling Event Sourcing for Netflix Downloads
Phillipa Avery and Robert Reta describe how Netflix successfully launched their Download feature with the use of a Cassandra-backed event sourcing architecture, describing the event store implemented
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Managing Thousands of Data Services @Heroku
Gabriel Enslein discusses the evolution of fleet orchestration, immutable infrastructure, security auditing for managing data services for many Salesforce customers.
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Servlet vs Reactive Stacks in Five Use Cases
Rossen Stoyanchev talks about five common use cases in web application development and explores the impact of building on Servlet and Reactive stacks. He uses RxJava, Reactor, Spring MVC and WebFlux.
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Polyglot on the JVM with Graal
Thomas Wuerthinger overviews Graal's language interoperability, and previews a low footprint AOT compiled Graal-enabled VM for embedded environments and microservices that require fast startup.