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Charity Majors on Observability and Understanding the Operational Ramifications of a System
InfoQ recently sat down with Charity Majors, CEO of honeycomb.io and co-author of “Database Reliability Engineering” (with Laine Campbell), and discussed the topics of observability and monitoring.
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How Self-Organization Happens
There isn't one specific pattern that emerges from self-organization. The processes are so deep and fundamental to human interactions that you cannot enforce any specific hierarchical or non-hierarchical pattern with rules. Trust between people is an outcome of allowing people to freely self-organize. Complex networks of trust emerge and change as people continuously negotiate their relationships.
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Challenges in HoloLens Application Development
This article discusses the lessons we learned developing new UWP apps and updating existing UWP applications to make them work on the HoloLens. We present UWP application design considerations to be taken into account early in the development lifecycle to support the HoloLens device family. Finally, we provide plausible solutions and suggestions to make the upgrade process less complex.
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Customize Your Agile Approach: What Do You Need for Estimation?
This is the third in a series of articles that will help you think about how you might want to customize your agile approach for your context. Many agile approaches assume teams will estimate with story points, which leads to a project velocity measure. Instead of velocity, consider counting stories or using cycle time for estimation. You might not need to measure velocity at all.
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FPGAs Supercharge Computational Performance
Originally used in the development of new hardware, new, cloud-based FPGAs are making the technology more accessible. The dramatic improvements in speed and lower costs over traditional CPUs means more companies can start benefiting from the technology. FPGAs are fundamentally concurrent, which makes them an ideal tool for data-intensive, parallel processing problems.
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How AI Will Revolutionize These Five Job Roles by 2022
AI is altering major job roles in the tech industry. From developers to managers to CIOs, established industry positions are being disrupted already. In five years many will be unrecognizable. What changes are coming? This article examines five key roles in tech and show how AI will remake them in the next five years.
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Observability and Avoiding Alert Overload from Microservices at the Financial Times
At QCon London, Sarah Wells presented "Avoiding Alerts Overload from Microservices", and cautioned that developers and operators must fundamentally change the way they think about monitoring when building a distributed microservice-based system.
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Q&A on the Book "Create Your Successful Agile Project"
The book Create Your Successful Agile Project helps people understand agile approaches and select what could work for them.Too often, teams adopt a framework without understanding the context in which that framework is useful. This book shows how you can use your team’s unique product, context, and people to define a suitable agile approach for your project.
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An "Integration-First" Approach to Building a Commerce Platform for Payment Terminals
In this article Praveen Alavilli describes how they designed a payment terminal system for interoperability and extensibility, allowing developers to build new shopping experiences.
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Q&A on the Book Practical Kanban
The book Practical Kanban provides solutions for typical problems that continually occur within Kanban implementations. It explains how you can create a Kanban system for the entire value creation chain to coordinate the work of teams.
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Q&A with Connon MacRae on DevOps Adoption and Operational Models at Ticketmaster
Connon MacRae from Ticketmaster on challenges and successes adopting DevOps. Also how operations look like in a global, multi-time zone, 24/7 availability org with 14 different ticketing products.
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Key Steps to Building and Managing an Effective API Marketplace
Across industries, companies are now looking for ways to shape their digital businesses by extending their services through external APIs. To reap the benefits of an API program, however, organizations need to move beyond basic API management to creating an API marketplace, a specialized type of platform business model that focuses on connecting producers and consumers.