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Why Should We Care about Technology Ethics? The Updated ACM Code of Ethics

The 2018 rewrite of the ACM code of ethics and professional conduct has brought it up-to-date with new technologies and societal demands. This code supports the ethical conduct of computing professionals through a set of guidelines for positively working in the tech industry.

Ben Linders Catherine Flick
on Jun 05, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the inside out

The book Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out explains how focusing on inner-agility through sensemaking, communication, and relationship intelligence can increase the outer agility of organizations. It describes Sense-and-Respond leadership, an approach to catalyzing the creation of outcomes by sensing acutely, responding gracefully, and sensing deliberately.

Michael Hamman Ben Linders
on Jun 02, 2019
DevOps

Sustainable Operations in Complex Systems with Production Excellence

Successful long-term approaches to production ownership and DevOps require cultural change in the form of production excellence. Teams are more sustainable if they have well-defined measurements of reliability, the capability to debug new problems, a culture that fosters spreading knowledge, and a proactive approach to mitigating risk.

Liz Fong-Jones
on May 31, 2019
Cloud

WebAssembly and Blazor: A Decades Old Problem Solved

A framework, named Blazor because it runs in the browser and leverages a templating system or "view engine" called Razor, enables the scenario .NET developers almost gave up on. It doesn't just allow developers to build client-side code with C#, but also allows developers to run existing .NET Standard DLLs in the browser without a plugin. Here's the story of WebAssembly and Blazor.

Jeremy Likness
on May 30, 2019
Culture & Methods

Author Q&A: Chief Joy Officer

Richard Sheridan has released his next book: Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear. Building on the concepts from his first book, he provides practical advice for leaders who want to cultivate a culture of joy in their organization. He defines Joy as the satisfaction of a job well done, of building products that people love to use, with teamwork and trust.

Richard Sheridan Shane Hastie
on May 28, 2019
Culture & Methods

Being an Ethical Software Engineer

Our lives are improving because of technology. Software engineering is one of the more influencing practices we have today that is shaping society, but it doesn’t look like the industry is owning this social responsibility. At the end of the day, it’s not just about being better developers, but rather about being better people.

Rotem Hermon
on May 27, 2019
Culture & Methods

A Different Meaning of CI - Continuous Improvement, the Heartbeat of DevOps

This personal experience report shows that political in-house games and bad corporate culture are not only annoying and a waste of time, but also harm a lot of initiatives for improvement. Whenever we become aware of the blame game, we should address it! DevOps wants to deliver high quality. The willingness to make things better - products, processes, collaboration, and more - is vital.

Sabine Wojcieszak
on May 25, 2019
Culture & Methods

Cultivating a Learning Organisation

This article explores how creating an internal culture of experimentation and learning enabled a company to keep pace with the rapid iterations in tech that have become the regular way we do business. It shows that psychological safety is a key component of the learning organisation; employees need to be able to experiment and learn from any outcome - without fear that failure will be punished.

Andrea Dobson
on May 24, 2019
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Using Intel Analytics Zoo to Inject AI into Customer Service Platform (Part II)

This article shares the practical experience of building a QA ranker module on Azure’s customer support platform using Intel Analytics Zoo by Microsoft Azure China team. You can quickly learn step by step how to prepare data to train, evaluate and tune a text matching model at scale and finally productionize it as a service using Analytics Zoo.

Chen Xu Yuqing Wei Shengsheng Huang Kai Huang
on May 23, 2019
DevOps

Towards a Unified, Standard API for Consolidating Service Meshes

Service mesh architectures enable a control and observability loop. At the moment, service mesh implementations vary in regard to API and technology, and this shows no signs of slowing down. Building on top of volatile APIs can be hazardous. Here we suggest to use a simplified, workflow-friendly API to shield organization platform code from specific service-mesh implementation details.

Christian Posta
on May 20, 2019
Culture & Methods

How to Mitigate the Pain of Getting and Giving Feedback

Companies that encourage open and honest feedback do better than companies that do not. Nonetheless, giving feedback is difficult because social and physical pain share some of the same neural circuitry. Hence, feedback can feel physically painful, as Sarah Hagan discusses in her 2018 QCon San Francisco talk . Hagan uses scientific research to demonstrate how to give feedback properly.

Michael Stiefel
on May 19, 2019
Cloud

Deploying Docker Containers Using an AWS CodePipeline for DevOps

In this walkthrough, learn how to perform continuous integration and deployment of Docker containers with no downtime using AWS CodePipeline and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS).

Deepak Vohra
on May 17, 2019