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Micronaut Tutorial: How to Build Microservices with This JVM-Based Framework
Micronaut is a modern, JVM-based, full-stack framework for building modular and easily testable microservice applications. In this tutorial you will create three microservices written in Java, Kotlin and Groovy that use the framework.
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Author Q&A - A Guide to Distributed Agile Framework
InfoQ contributors and distributed team experts Hugo Messer, John Okoro and Savita Pahuja have expanded on their articles and minibook on working effectively in distributed teams and published a book titled Distributed Agile Framework. They present a framework for distributed organisations and teams who want to use an agile approach to delivering customer value.
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Codefirst: The Future of UI Design
User interface design has played a critical role in computing for decades. Flat and tactile design are current trends in application design. Voice user interfaces are emerging with Alexa, Siri, and Google. Augmented and virtual reality, and IoT lead to significant changes in designs. AI is poised to create significant changes by perfecting user interface designs.
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Agile in the Context of a Holistic Approach
In this article Jon Kern, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, describes a set of critical practices that serve to build up a holistic view of the project, from which all else proceeds. Fail to do a good job at taking the systems view, and your project will likely not go as well as it could. It might even fail.
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Scaling Autonomy at Zalando
Autonomy isn't something you can just give to a team, it’s something that teams learn and earn over time. It has to come with accountability to amplify working towards a purpose. At Zalando, creating the right architecture and organizational structure reduced the amount of alignment needed and freed up the energy to be more thorough where alignment is needed.
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Modeling Uncertainty with Reactive DDD
Vaughn Vernon has written several books on DDD and reactive messaging patterns, and has found that the nature of distributed systems means you must deal with uncertainty. How to respond to a missing message, or a message that is received twice, should be a business decision, and therefore must be part of the domain model.
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Explore the New Java 10 “var” Type: An Introduction and Hands-on Tutorial
Learn about the new Java 10 "var" type, and experiment using JShell with this hands-on tutorial on how to reduce boilerplate code using new type inference for local variables.
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Scrum The Toyota Way
Toyota Connected uses Scrum combined with the Toyota Production System to deliver Lean Production, enabling teams to deliver rapid PDCA cycles. Scrum of Scrums, Meta Scrum, and the chief product owner, are some of the approaches used to scale Scrum for multiple teams and products. Agility is not the goal. It’s a result, an outcome.
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The 2018 InfoQ Editors’ Recommended Reading List: Part One
As part of our core values of sharing knowledge, the InfoQ editor team has listed and commented on their most recent recommended reading.
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Author Q&A Continuous Digital and Project Myopia
Allan Kelly has recently released two complimentary books which address ways of working in modern digital businesses. “Continuous Digital” addresses the way organisations need to structure themselves when “every business is a digital business”. “Project Myopia” explores more of the underlying theory of #NoProjects and explains why the continuous culture is so important.
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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.
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Ethics, a Psychological Perspective
With emerging technologies like machine learning, developers can now achieve much more than ever before. But this new power has a downside. Only recently, Facebook’s chief executive apologised in front of the European Parliament for not taking enough responsibility for fake news, foreign interference in elections and developers misusing people’s information.