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Development

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Quantum Shift: Rewiring the Tech Landscape

Teena Idnani explains the core concepts of quantum computing, its transformative potential across industries (pharmaceuticals, finance, etc.), and the current state of quantum technology. She addresses the threats (breaking RSA encryption) and opportunities, offering practical guidance on how software developers, architects, and engineering leaders can prepare for the coming quantum revolution.

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Architecture & Design

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Fitness Functions for Your Architecture

Software, its size, its requirements, and its infrastructure environment evolve over time. Software architecture should evolve accordingly, to meet current and future operational and developmental requirements. Fitness functions are guardrails that enable the continuous evolution of your system's architecture, within a range and a direction, that you desire and define.

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AI Infrastructure

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Wenjie Zi on Technology and Organizational Aspects for ML Project Success

In this podcast, Wenjie Zi discusses why many ML projects don’t succeed and what technology and organizational aspects affect the success of those projects. She also talked about what potential communication and understanding gaps can exist between business team and ML practitioners and how to address these gaps.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Productivity Lessons in Moving from Big Tech to Scaling a Startup

Rachel Potvin discusses the key differences in developer productivity between startups and established tech companies. Drawing from her experiences at GitHub and Google, she explains the critical role of urgency, flexible team structures, lean metrics, top-down planning, and a culture of experimentation in driving startup success. She also shares practical examples and actionable strategies.

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DevOps

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Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs

This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime.

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Culture & Methods

Deliver With Confidence: 10 Practical Tips to Streamline Your Delivery Pipeline

David Alpert shares 10 tips on streamlining the delivery pipeline to make the process fast and smooth.

David Alpert
on Feb 16, 2016

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31:02
Culture & Methods

The Death of Continuous Integration

Steve Smith compares and contrasts different types of Feature Branching and Trunk Based Development, and explains why Continuous Delivery without Continuous Integration is not working.

Steve Smith
on Feb 11, 2016

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45:04
Culture & Methods

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD): The Foundation for Scaling Agile

Mark Lines keynotes on the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework, scaling an Agile strategy, and practices for successfully scaling Agile.

Mark Lines
on Jan 22, 2016

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58:36
Culture & Methods

Lean’ing Towards Continuous Delivery

Adam Krieger discusses improving CD: using feedback to improve customer satisfaction, treating DevOps as a responsibility, discovering the mindset and toolset necessary to deliver successfully.

Adam Krieger
on Jan 13, 2016

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01:01:54
Development

Convention over Configuration: the Gradle way

Cédric Champeau demonstrates how Gradle inherits from good practices like what Maven offered, but goes beyond by generalizing the concept and allowing to define conventions.

Cedric Champeau
on Jan 09, 2016

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01:22:55
Development

Create Elegant Builds at Scale with Gradle

Hans Dockter discusses how to solve the challenges of standardization, dependency management, multi-language builds, and automatic build infrastructure provisioning.

Hans Dockter
on Dec 12, 2015

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01:23:50
Culture & Methods

Concrete Experimentation in Agile Environments

Bernd Schiffer discusses the importance of experiments to drive change, how to start doing experiments right away, and how to plan, execute, and learn from experiments.

Bernd Schiffer
on Nov 29, 2015

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34:59
Architecture & Design

Spring Boot Microservices, Containers, and Kubernetes - How-to

R Tsang shows how to create a Java-based microservice using Spring Boot, containerize it using Maven plugins and deploy a fleet of microservices and dependent components such as Redis using Kubernetes

Ray Tsang
on Nov 27, 2015

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01:28:35
Culture & Methods

It all Starts with an Idea - Kicking Off Initiatives for Success

Craig Smith discusses techniques to start a project - impact mapping, idea canvas, problem pitch, finding features, etc. - prioritizing ideas, and knowing when to proceed with an idea or dump it.

Craig Smith
on Nov 04, 2015

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32:58
Cloud

Bring The Rain: Cloud Powered Continuous Delivery

Ken Dale demoes building, testing and deploying a project in the cloud using popular services and technologies.

Ken Dale
on Oct 20, 2015

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45:27
Culture & Methods

Developing Cultural Intelligence

Daniel Seltzer discusses what intellectual skills are needed to be able to build and lead a successful group. These skills aren’t taught in school and don’t come from certification programs.

Daniel Seltzer
on Oct 10, 2015

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54:29
Web Development

Getting Your Web Projects Production Ready with Gulp

Jonathan Mills presents how to automate building tasks for JavaScript projects with Gulp.

Jonathan Mills
on Oct 03, 2015

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