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Digital Transformation in Oil and Gas

The traditional Oil and Gas Industry is being transformed by a new wave of digital disruptive technologies. To remain profitable, oil and gas companies must consider how to gain operational efficiencies through improved use of technology, such as cloud platforms, and process, such as the adoption of agile methodologies. This article explores challenges within implementing these technologies

Rekha Kodali Md Tahir
on Apr 28, 2018
DevOps

Monitoring SRE's Golden Signals

Golden signals are increasingly popular these days due to the rise of SRE. This article outlines what golden signals are, and how to monitor and use them in the context of various common services.

Steve Mushero
on Apr 27, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Kanban Maturity Model: Evolving Fit-for-Purpose Organizations

The book Kanban Maturity Model by David Anderson and Teodora Bozheva provides a model that organizations can use to assess their maturity and define a roadmap to improve business agility using Kanban practices and values. It's a body of knowledge for coaches and organizations on sustainable change, cultures of continuous improvement, unity around a shared purpose, and improved business outcome.

Ben Linders
on Apr 26, 2018
Architecture & Design

Guide to Digital Transformation. Define, Price, and Plan a Digital Transformation (Part 1)

Realizing the value of a great digital business vision traditionally required the arduous exercise of building the proper operational, technology, and human capabilities. This article introduces a framework for easily translating a digital business ambition into imaginable digital strategies, that can then be priced and architecturally modeled for impact analysis and economic value creation.

Philippe Assouline
on Apr 24, 2018
Java

Get Ready for Cloud Native, Service-Meshed Java Enterprise

Java EE can be easily combined with Cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and Istio to produce a modern service-driven application.

Sebastian Daschner
on Apr 22, 2018
Culture & Methods

Culture and Diversity - Why They Belong Together in Every Tech Organization

Culture and diversity can help a company’s bottom line, so it’s not surprising that organizations and their executive boards are focusing on ways to encourage inclusion. This article will look at specific benefits of diversity, and ways to encourage inclusion, essentially by allowing multiple voices to share in the story of the company.

Manny Segarra III Susan McIntosh
on Apr 21, 2018
Culture & Methods

Engineering Culture Revived: The Key to Digital Transformation

Teams can create their environment for sustainable development to enable innovative insights into what and how to deliver. Team managers must anticipate the need for continuous improvement and renewal, or else face the interference of a ’top-down’ driven ‘digital transformation’ that frustrates software engineering practice. It’s time for teams to reclaim the practice of software engineering.

Ben Linders
on Apr 20, 2018
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2018

QCon (the international software conference for senior developers, architects, and tech leads) recently celebrated its twelfth year in London. Located at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference just steps from Westminster Abbey and Big Ben, this year’s event attracted 1,350 tech leaders in software and offered 136 technical deep dives, open spaces, and AMAs (Ask Me Anything) to attendees.

Abel Avram
on Apr 18, 2018
Development

Book Review: Building Blockchain Projects

This book provides an introductory look at building Ethereum smart contracts. It covers both Solidity and web3.js and is aimed at developers who already know how to program in Javascript. Experienced developers may find the book somewhat entry-level, but it does attempt to introduce concepts beyond just "Hello World" smart contracts.

Ben Evans
on Apr 17, 2018
Architecture & Design

Managing Data in Microservices

This article provides practical examples of how to manage data in microservices, with an emphasis on migrating from a monolithic database. It is recommended to build a monolith first, and only migrate to microservices after you actually require the scaling and other benefits they provide.

Thomas Betts Randy Shoup
on Apr 16, 2018
Architecture & Design

Virtual Panel: Microservices Communication and Governance Using Service Mesh

Service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication and offers a platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. InfoQ spoke with subject matter experts in the service mesh area to learn more about why service mesh frameworks have become critical components of cloud native architectures.

Srini Penchikala
on Apr 15, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agile Management

The book Agile Management by Mike Hoogveld explores how the agile principles and values can be implemented in an agile way to improve the flexibility and entrepreneurship within organizations. It shows how the “voice of the customer” should be the starting point for designing the products, services, channels and processes you offer to your customers.

Ben Linders
on Apr 14, 2018