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ASP.NET Core - The Power of Simplicity

With the release of ASP.NET Core, Microsoft went all in on Open Web Interface for .NET (a.k.a OWIN). OWIN provides a powerful way for developers to choose how much abstraction they want to have when dealing with web. In this article you will get an explanation of how the OWIN request pipeline works, as well as how you can utilize it to fulfill the requirements you have.

Chris Klug
on May 13, 2018
Culture & Methods

Psychological Safety in Training Games

Games can be safe places where people can learn lessons experientially under controlled circumstances and generate insights that can be applied to their daily work. Sometimes though, games can get too personal and uncomfortable. A facilitator can create safety mechanisms for these games, including making it easy and safe for people to opt-in and opt-out.

Ben Linders
on May 11, 2018
Architecture & Design

Book Review and Q&A: Microservices and Containers by Parminder Singh Kocher

The book Microservices and Containers, by Parminder Singh Kocher, provides a deep dive into the main concepts, patterns and technologies used to implement modern, highly available, highly scalable cloud-native applications.

Tim Hodkinson
on May 11, 2018
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Back to the Future: Demystifying Hindsight Bias

Enterprise AI has more prevalent nuances in the input data than in consumer AI or academia. The Achilles’ heel in this domain is Hindsight Bias. In layman terms, it is like Marty McFly (from Back to the Future) traveling to the future, getting his hands on the Sports Almanac, and using it to bet on the games of the present. Mayukh Bhaowal from Salesforce Einstein explains how to counteract it.

Mayukh Bhaowal
on May 09, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Software Wasteland

Almost all Enterprise Information Systems now cost vastly more to implement than they should. When you have hundreds or thousands of complex applications, you are stuck in the Application Centric Quagmire. In the book Software Wasteland Dave McComb explores what is causing application development waste and how visualizing the cost of change and becoming data-centric can help to reduce the waste.

Ben Linders
on May 07, 2018
.NET

Performance is a Key .NET Core Feature

.NET Core brings along many optimizations with regards to performance, both in terms of execution speed as well as memory allocation. Examples are optimizations in collections and LINQ extension methods, text processing, networking … There are also new types and concepts, such as Span, that allow doing interesting things. In this article, we will look at how these new concepts can be used.

Maarten Balliauw
on May 06, 2018
Culture & Methods

Coaching with Curiosity Using Clean Language and Agile

Clean Language questions are bias-free questions. They can be used to discover the underlying rules, expressed values, and coping mechanisms in organizations, and to gain clarity and promote diverse ideas in groups. Simple to learn, but tricky to implement, clean questions require transparency and sharing a bit more of one’s thinking than usual.

Ben Linders
on May 05, 2018
Architecture & Design

Building Apps Leveraging Municipal Open Data and Low Code Solutions

Municipal governments produce and commission large amounts of data and information every day. This article demonstrates how Oracle Application Express (APEX) -- a low code, cloud-based development tool -- can be used in combination with the Socrata Open Data API (SODA) to build a simple reporting web application that includes a report and a chart based on the NYC 311 service request open data.

Marc Sewtz
on May 03, 2018
Culture & Methods

A Quick Guide to Implementing ATDD

Collaboration is one of the core values of Agile Methodology. That being said, what happens when you notice lack of collaboration between developers, testers and business-minded individuals in agile teams? This article provides a quick guide to implementing Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) in your projects to mitigate problems due to lack of collaboration.

Raj Subrameyer
on May 02, 2018
Architecture & Design

Guide to Digital Transformation - Part 2

This article introduces a new framework for translating a digital business ambition into imaginable digital strategies, that can be priced and modeled for impact analysis and economic value creation .

Philippe Assouline
on May 01, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Lost and Founder

The book Lost and Founder contains startup stories from Rand Fishkin. In the book he describes the ups and downs from starting and managing a company, and shares the lessons that he learned. InfoQ interviewed him about being transparent, minimum viable products and pivoting, raising capital and funding a tech startup, and asked him what he would do differently when starting another company.

Ben Linders
on Apr 29, 2018
.NET

Azure and .NET Core Are Beautiful Together

ASP.NET Core provides developers a way to develop modern web applications in the environment of their choosing (Linux, macOSX, and Windows). Microsoft Azure gives developers full power to host those web applications in anything from a full VM to a Docker container to Azure's App Service which simplifies management of the host environment. This lets developers focus on code and not servers.

Eric Boyd
on Apr 29, 2018