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DevOps for the Modern Enterprise Book Review and Q&A with Mirco Hering

InfoQ reviewed Mirco Hering's "DevOps for the Modern Enterprise" book and reached out to the author for more insights on his experience, learnings and obstacles with transformations at large scale.

Manuel Pais Mirco Hering
on Sep 23, 2018
Culture & Methods

Ajey Gore on Small Teams Making a Big Difference and Effective Outsourcing

Ajay Gore will talk at the upcoming Agile Impact conference in Indonesia on his experiences working across multiple cultures, outsourcing for the right reasons and how small teams who have end-to-end responsibility for their products enable scaling and growth.

Hugo Messer
on Sep 17, 2018
DevOps

Chaos Conf Q&A: The Benefits, Challenges and Practices of Chaos Engineering

This Q&A, from the upcoming Chaos Conf event that is running in San Francisco in September, examines the benefits and challenges of chaos engineering. The article also provides emerging good practice, and contains prerequisites, recommendations, and tips for getting started.

Daniel Bryant
on Sep 14, 2018
Culture & Methods

Are You the Barrier to Innovation?

You've adopted technologies like SOA and microservices to keep your infrastructure future-proof. So why do you still struggle to innovate? It's not your technology - it's your culture. Rob Zazueta explains how focusing on an agile culture may be more beneficial for your organization than adopting the latest architectural trends.

Robert Zazueta
on Sep 12, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Fluid

The book Book Fluid: How Culture, Hidden Opportunities, and Flatter Structures Lead to Profitable Innovation explores how to create a culture of change in companies. Najeeb Khan shows how fluid companies can act with higher speed and experiment to innovate, and how to transform towards a flat structure that allows everyone to test and validate ideas.

Ben Linders Najeeb Khan
on Jul 08, 2018
Architecture & Design

The SOA Journey: from Understanding Business to Agile Architecture

If your monolith is tightly coupled and not cohesive, you could split it in order for a business to be more agile. There are a lot of wrong ways that you can do that. They result in the same tightly coupled and non-cohesive monolith, but which is distributed across a network. This article examines how you can align your technical services and business-capabilities.

Vadim Samokhin
on Jun 23, 2018
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Can People Trust the Automated Decisions Made by Algorithms?

The use of automated decision making is increasing. These algorithms can produce results that are incomprehensible, or socially undesirable. How can we determine the safety of algorithms in devices if we cannot understand them? Public fears about the inability to foresee adverse consequences has impeded technologies such as nuclear energy and genetically modified crops.

Andrew Burt Michael Stiefel Rebecca Wiliams Michael Veale
on Jun 21, 2018
Culture & Methods

The Cost of Fear in Organisational Change

In this article Juncu explores the factors which cause fear of change in organisations and what it costs, how to challenge the status quo and provides advice on overcoming some of the limiting factors. She explores four common practices which feel like they reduce risk but actually exacerbate the challenges faced by organisations in the dynamic, fast moving world where adapting to change is vital

Oana Juncu
on Jun 11, 2018
Architecture & Design

Ballerina Tutorial: A Programming Language for Integration

Ballerina is a new programming language and platform whose objective is to make it easy to create resilient services that integrate and orchestrate across distributed endpoints. Ballerina’s design principles focus on baking integration concepts into a language, including a network-aware type system, sequence diagrammatic syntax, concurrency workers, being “DevOps ready”, and environment awareness.

Tyler Jewell
on Jun 06, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Many Voices, One Song - Shared Power with Sociocracy

The book Many Voices, One Song - Shared Power with Sociocracy by Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez provides a collection of sociocratic tools and principles and stories about applying sociocracy. It can be used as a reference for implementing sociocracy in organizations to establish self-governance.

Jerry Koch-Gonzalez Ted Rau Ben Linders
on Jun 03, 2018
DevOps

Making Work Visible Book Review and Q&A with Dominica DeGrandis

Book review and Q&A with Dominica DeGrandis on her new book "Making Work Visible". What are time thieves and what can we do about them?

Manuel Pais
on May 31, 2018
Architecture & Design

Ballerina Microservices Programming Language: Introducing the Latest Release and "Ballerina Central"

The tutorial demonstrates Ballerina, a new programming language and platform whose objective is to make it easy to create resilient services that integrate and orchestrate across distributed endpoints. Ballerina uses compile time abstractions for distributed system primitives that enable the compiler to generate artifacts like API gateways for deployment to Docker and Kubernetes.

Tyler Jewell
on May 29, 2018