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Q&A on the Book The Driver in the Driverless Car

The book The Driver in the Driverless Car by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever explores how technology is changing faster and faster, and what impact that can have on the future of our society. It aims to help frame decisions and thinking about rapidly developing technologies. Salkever and Wadhwa cover a wide variety of technologies, including robotics, AI, quantum computing, and driverless cars.

Ben Linders Vivek Wadhwa Alex Salkever
on Sep 21, 2019
Cloud

Implementing Policies in Kubernetes

The author explains what Kubernetes policies are, and how they can help you manage and secure the Kubernetes cluster. We will also look at why we need a policy engine to author and manage policies.

Karthikeyan Shanmugam
on Sep 20, 2019
Culture & Methods

The Magic of Organizing around Customer Journeys - and How to do it

Organizing around the value delivered to the customer requires maturity in the organization that needs to be built up over time. This article describes eight typical steps that companies are taking in order to mature towards the end goal of becoming a true enterprise agile organization, and explains how to move up the ladder.

Ole Jepsen Maria Ebro Andreasen
on Sep 19, 2019
.NET

Interview with Scott Hunter on .NET Core 3.0

Chris Woodruff talks to director of program management for the .NET platform, Scott Hunter, about what developers can expect from .NET Core 3.

Chris Woodruff Scott Hunter
on Sep 18, 2019
Culture & Methods

Strengthen Distributed Teams with Social Conversations

Yes, online meetings should result in outcomes; they should follow agendas or meeting plans and should be run efficiently. But, there is an aspect of remote team meetings that often gets overlooked—the opportunity to strengthen relationships with our team members.

Pilar Orti
on Sep 17, 2019
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Rethinking Flink’s APIs for a Unified Data Processing Framework

Since its very early days, Apache Flink has followed the philosophy of taking a unified approach to batch and streaming. The core building block is the “continuous processing of unbounded data streams, with batch as a special, bounded set of those streams.” Recent updates to the Flink APIs include architectural designs by the community to support batch and streaming unification in Apache Flink.

Aljoscha Krettek
on Sep 16, 2019
DevOps

Q&A on the Book Continuous Delivery in Java

The book Continuous Delivery in Java by Daniel Bryant and Abraham Marin-Perez was released nearly ten years after the original Continuous Delivery book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble, and more than 20 years after Java’s first release. Q&A with the authors to better understand from their experience why a book on Continuous Delivery specifically for Java and the JVM ecosystem was needed.

Manuel Pais Daniel Bryant Abraham Marín Pérez
on Sep 15, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agile Leadership in Practice - Applying Management 3.0

The book Agile Leadership in Practice - Applying Management 3.0 by Dominik Maximini is an experience report of the agile transformation journey of NovaTec. Maximini shares his experiences from applying principles and practices from Management 3.0, success stories, failure stories, and learnings from experiments.

Ben Linders Dominik Maximini
on Sep 14, 2019
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Azure Data Lake Analytics and U-SQL

In this article, the author shows how to use big data query and processing language U-SQL on Azure Data Lake Analytics platform. U-SQL combines the concepts and constructs both of SQL and C#. It combines the simplicity and declarative nature of SQL with the programmatic power of C# including rich types and expressions.

Aniruddha Chakrabarti
on Sep 13, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Helping People Change

The book Helping People Change by Richard Boyatzis, Melvin Smith, and Ellen Van Oosten describes how you can coach people with compassion for sustained learning and change. It explains how connecting to people's vision and dreams and using the energy that that brings can help people grow in a meaningful way.

Ben Linders Richard Boyatzis Melvin Smith Ellen Van Oosten
on Sep 12, 2019
Architecture & Design

Using Java to Orchestrate Robot Swarms

Ocado Technology uses state-of-the-art robotics to power highly automated fulfillment centres. To orchestrate the robot swarms and maximise every bit of efficiency from the warehouses, they've developed a control system analogous to an air traffic control system. This article covers decisions regarding the language, development principles, and architecture choices.

Matthew Cornford
on Sep 11, 2019
Cloud

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