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Q&A with Gojko Adzic on the Book Running Serverless

In the book Running Serverless, Gojko Adzic introduces the basic concepts of serverless including detailed step-by-step instructions to get started on AWS, but he also goes beyond the basics and explains subjects like storage, session state, and event handling.

Jan Stenberg Gojko Adzic
on Sep 10, 2019
Culture & Methods

Remote Meetings Reflect Distributed Team Culture

Are you having problems connecting with people in your distributed meetings? Do you feel like you and your remote colleagues don’t meet goals in your meetings? The problem may not be with the meetings. It might be the culture in which you run your meetings.

Mark Kilby
on Sep 09, 2019
Culture & Methods

Data Analytics in the World of Agility

Is it all about customer-centric business, or is there any data left? Can we integrate data analytics and customer empathy? This article explores how we can move towards a more customer-centric business and what information we require in order to understand the most valuable thing we have: our customer.

Almudena Rodriguez Pardo
on Sep 06, 2019
.NET

Navigating the .NET Ecosystem

In 2002, .NET was released. Over the next 12+ years, the .NET developer community patiently grew at a seemingly steady pace. Then, things started evolving rapidly. Microsoft anticipated the changing ecosystem and embraced the open-source development mindset, even acquiring GitHub.

David Pine
on Sep 05, 2019
Culture & Methods

Appreciation at Work

As organizations across the world are experimenting better ways to sustain their employees’ engagement, appreciation and recognition programs have flourished in the last five years, among the best, if not the best, tool of predilection for making employees feel valued. Appreciation benefits are not limited to companies’ performance; they also benefit individuals and teams.

Shaaron A Alvares
on Sep 04, 2019
Culture & Methods

Can Your Meeting Kit Cut It?

Every team meets. Most run their meetings the same way their grandparents and their grandparents' grandparents did. Meeting records predating the Romans describe a leader pontificating, brief back-and-forth discussion, then a conclusion with an inconclusive bit of mumbled agreement. Meetings haven't changed much in thousands of years.

J. Elise Keith Lisette Sutherland
on Sep 03, 2019
Cloud

How to Use Chaos Engineering to Break Things Productively

Chaos can be a preventative for calamity. It's predicated on the idea of failure as the rule rather than the exception, and it led to the development of the first dedicated chaos engineering tools. This article explores chaos engineering, and how to apply it.

Sam Bocetta
on Sep 02, 2019
Culture & Methods

Article Series - Remote Meetings

In this series we’ll look at how teams worldwide are successfully facilitating complex conversations, remotely. And we’ll share practical steps that you can take, right now, to upgrade the remote conversations that fill your working days.

Judy Rees
on Aug 31, 2019
DevOps

Designing Chaos Experiments, Running Game Days, and Building a Learning Organization: Chaos Conf Q&A

The second Chaos Conf event is taking place in San Francisco over 25-26 September. In preparation for the conference, InfoQ sat down with a number of the presenters, and discussed topics such as the evolution and adoption of chaos engineering, key people and process learning from running chaos experiments, and what the biggest blockers are for mainstream adoption.

Daniel Bryant
on Aug 31, 2019
Culture & Methods

Great Global Meetings: Navigating Cultural Differences

Navigating cross-cultural differences can be hard enough when team members are face-to-face, but when most communications are through some kind of technology—email, phone, IM, video, or online conferencing—it becomes infinitely more complex.

Nancy Settle-Murphy
on Aug 30, 2019
Architecture & Design

Cellery: A Code-First Approach to Deploy Applications on Kubernetes

Cellery is a code-first approach to building, integrating, running, and managing composite applications on Kubernetes, using a cell-based architecture. Learn what cells are, how Cellery works, and see how an existing Kubernetes application written by Google can be deployed, managed, and observed using Cellery.

Dakshitha Ratnayake
on Aug 27, 2019
Culture & Methods

The Death of Agile and Beyond

Agility as way of being for teams and organizations is crossing a critical juncture. In a very unique state of affairs, Agile is being adopted by organizations in various domains whilst many Agilists are expressing concerns that Agile has field. This article looks at the current state of agility, the challenges it faces and proposes some ideas around how Agilists can change the situation.

Mynul Chowdhuri
on Aug 26, 2019