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The SOA Journey: from Understanding Business to Agile Architecture

If your monolith is tightly coupled and not cohesive, you could split it in order for a business to be more agile. There are a lot of wrong ways that you can do that. They result in the same tightly coupled and non-cohesive monolith, but which is distributed across a network. This article examines how you can align your technical services and business-capabilities.

Vadim Samokhin
on Jun 23, 2018
Architecture & Design

How BuzzFeed Migrated from a Perl Monolith to Go and Python Microservices

Starting in 2016 BuzzFeed began a re-architecture project moving from a single monolithic application written in Perl to a set of microservices. The main reason for the move was that the Perl application was proving hard to scale, essential given that buzzfeed.com alone serves about 7 billion page views/month.

Charles Humble
on Jun 22, 2018
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Can People Trust the Automated Decisions Made by Algorithms?

The use of automated decision making is increasing. These algorithms can produce results that are incomprehensible, or socially undesirable. How can we determine the safety of algorithms in devices if we cannot understand them? Public fears about the inability to foresee adverse consequences has impeded technologies such as nuclear energy and genetically modified crops.

Andrew Burt Michael Stiefel Rebecca Wiliams Michael Veale
on Jun 21, 2018
Culture & Methods

Retrospectives are Weak - Here is How to Make Them Stronger

This article explains why organisations settle for mediocre results from retrospectives and how a great coach can transform the results by bringing the real issues to the surface and creating an environment where a team can learn to trust each other, deal with conflict and experience extraordinary results.

Bob Griffiths Michael de la Maza
on Jun 19, 2018
DevOps

Istio and the Future of Service Meshes

A service mesh provides a transparent and language-independent way to flexibly and easily automate networking, security, and observation functions. This article examines the past, present and future of the Istio service mesh. The near-term goal is to launch Istio to 1.0, when the key features will all be in beta, including support for Hybrid environments.

Jasmine Jaksic
on Jun 19, 2018
.NET

Default Interface Methods in C# 8

Default interface methods are included in a new feature proposal for C# 8, which will allow developers to use the traits programming technique. Based on an existing language feature found in Java, traits are an OOP technology that promotes the reuse of methods between unrelated classes.

Bassam Alugili
on Jun 17, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Changing Times: Quality for Humans in a Digital Age

In the book Changing Times, Rich Rogers explores how technology can help people and describes the role that quality plays in this. He tells a story about how technology affects the life of a journalist, and shows what development teams can do to deliver better products.

Ben Linders Rich Rogers
on Jun 16, 2018
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Democratizing Stream Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL - Part 1

In this article, author Michael Noll discusses the stream processing with KSQL, the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. Topics covered include challenges of stateful stream processing and how KSQL addresses them, and how KSQL helps to bridge the world of streams and databases through streams and tables.

Michael Noll
on Jun 15, 2018
Java

Refactoring to Eclipse Collections: Making Your Java Streams Leaner, Meaner, and Cleaner

Eclipse Collections is a high performance collections framework for Java, adding rich functionality to the native JDK Collections. In this article, key framework contributors demonstrate techniques for refactoring standard Java code to Eclipse Collections data structures and APIs, and also demonstrate some of the memory savings you can achieve.

Kristen O'Leary Vladimir Zakharov
on Jun 15, 2018
Culture & Methods

How Technology Is Impacting the Future of Work through Fragmentation

One of the side effects of technology’s evolution is that it fragments existing architectures and creates new structures in the process. AI and Blockchain are currently doing this, but this pattern has been seen before and will continue as tech evolves. According to Kary Bheemaiah, fragmentation is impacting the future of work; it’s a tech-lead reality to be observed and leveraged when possible.

Ben Linders Kary Bheemaiah
on Jun 14, 2018
Development

Picking an Active-Active Geo Distribution Strategy: Comparing Merge Replication and CRDT

Modern distributed applications are fuelling the growing demand for distributed active-active, multi-master databases. While most popular databases support multi-master deployment, different databases employ different techniques. LWW, MVCC, merge replication and CRDTs deliver eventual consistency, offering read and write access with local latency and remaining available during network partitions.

Roshan Kumar
on Jun 12, 2018
Culture & Methods

The Cost of Fear in Organisational Change

In this article Juncu explores the factors which cause fear of change in organisations and what it costs, how to challenge the status quo and provides advice on overcoming some of the limiting factors. She explores four common practices which feel like they reduce risk but actually exacerbate the challenges faced by organisations in the dynamic, fast moving world where adapting to change is vital

Oana Juncu
on Jun 11, 2018