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Book Review: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

David Gerard's 2017 book, "Attack of the 50ft Blockchain" is an in-depth look at the cryptocurrency space. The book takes a straightforwardly skeptical angle, and is explicitly intended as a non-technical overview that frames Bitcoin in purely political and economic terms.

Ben Evans
on Mar 22, 2018
Culture & Methods

Virtual Reality Will Disrupt Agile Coaching and Training

Online technology (virtual reality, adaptive personalized learning and videoconferencing) will disrupt the agile coaching and training spaces in the next 3-5 years. We predict that by the end of 2020 at least one large, credible agile/Scrum certification organization will be running agile/Scrum certification courses in virtual reality. Today’s winners will become tomorrow’s losers.

Elena Vassilieva Michael de la Maza
on Mar 21, 2018
Java

Servlet and Reactive Stacks in Spring Framework 5

Spring Framework 5 supports both traditional servlet-based and reactive web stacks, in the same server application, reflecting a major shift towards asynchronous, non-blocking concurrency in applications. In this article Spring committer Rossen Stoyanchev explores and contrasts both stacks, and explains the range of available choices, and provides guidance for choosing the appropriate stack.

Rossen Stoyanchev
on Mar 20, 2018
Culture & Methods

Beyond Copy-Pasting Methods: Navigating Complexity

This article explores how you can try out a context-specific approach, which leads to a context-specific experience. Once we understand more about the complexity behind the problems which we are trying to solve with agile, we clarify the purpose of our agile practice. This is the starting point from which we can build a common focus and sense of priority within our agile culture.

Bernhard Sterchi
on Mar 16, 2018
Development

A Comparison between Rust and Erlang

This article will focus on a comparison between Erlang and Rust, detailing their similarities and differences. It may be interesting to both Erlang developers looking into Rust and Rust developers looking into Erlang. A final section will detail more about each of the language capabilities and shortcomings and argue for the possibility of leveraging both languages' strengths in the same project.

Krishna Kumar Thokala
on Mar 13, 2018
DevOps

GDPR for Operations

With GDPR, taking care of personal data is an organisation-wide responsibility, but in the operations we can provide a lot of supporting tools to help deal with the multiple facets of this problem.

Jon Topper
on Mar 10, 2018
Culture & Methods

Why Software Estimation Is More Important Now Than Ever

In a world trending away from traditional waterfall and toward agile development methodologies, it would be understandable to assume that there is no longer a need for software project estimation. However, that assumption would be wrong - estimation is still a very valuable practice, even in organizations that are dependent upon agile development methodologies.

Larry Putnam Jr
on Mar 08, 2018
Culture & Methods

Four Priceless Tactics to Create Top-Tier Homegrown Talent

With rapid shifts in work culture across the world, employers are revisiting their relationships with employees, putting their needs and aspirations first. Here’s how to align individual interests with business objectives, and use constant engagement, training, and feedback to take your company culture to the next level.

Lori Wagoner
on Mar 07, 2018
.NET

First Hand Account of SignalR Core

SignalR Core is designed to make it easy for developers to add real-time (server-side push) functionality to their web applications. The latest alpha release is reviewed by SignalR Core contributor Giovany Alzate Sandoval, providing a first look at the new features of SignalR Core and what to expect when migrating an existing SignalR Core application.

Geovanny Alzate Sandoval
on Mar 04, 2018
Culture & Methods

Holacracy for Humans

Snapper, a New Zealand based transport ticketing service provider, wanted to be more like a city, and less like a bureaucratic corporation. In 2016 they introduced Holacracy, which enables people to act more like entrepreneurs and self-direct their work instead of waiting to be told what to do. They use Holacracy across all areas of the business and this way of working applies to everyone.

Sandy Mamoli
on Mar 03, 2018
Culture & Methods

Top 10 Lessons in Building a Distributed Engineering Team

Recruiting, nurturing, and growing a distributed engineering team is no easy feat, but it is well worth the investment. Bruno shares key insights that shine a light on how to empower your team to do their best work, regardless of physical location.

Bruno Miranda
on Mar 01, 2018
DevOps

Debugging Distributed Systems: Q&A with the “Squash” Microservice Debugger Creator Idit Levine

InfoQ recently sat down with Idit Levine, CEO of solo.io and creator of the new open source “Squash” microservices debugger, and discussed the challenges of observing and debugging distributed systems and applications.

Daniel Bryant
on Feb 26, 2018