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Getting Started with Machine Learning
A quick introduction to the machine learning field, exploring both supervised and unsupervised approaches.
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Using vfsStream to Test File Uploads with Laravel
Testing of uploading files can be tricky, but with the right tools and the knowledge of a few tricks, the process can be more efficient and a lot less difficult. This article goes over creating an endpoint to upload a CSV file of users and testing that users in the CSV are displayed in the JSON response, as well as adding validation to ensure CSV files are the types of files being dealt with.
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Inclusive Collaboration and the Silence Experiment
With highly collaborative approaches becoming the norm in the software industry, it is time to re-consider collaboration and provide workplaces and practices that embrace all kinds of thinkers. This article introduces Inclusive Collaboration and describes the Silence Experiment to help teams consider different aspects of collaboration and work more effectively with all types of minds.
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The CA Crew on Coaching Coaches, Mixing Cultures and Future Product Direction
At the recent Agile 2016 conference, InfoQ sat down with Ronica Roth, Steve Demchuk and Eric Willeke of the CA (formerly Rally Software). They discussed coaching the coaches, transforming CA to becoming an agile organisation, mixing cultures, the state of the products and future product direction.
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Q&A on Analysis Techniques for Product Owners Live Lessons
In the Analysis Techniques for Product Owners video lessons, Kent J McDonald shared a set of techniques that will help you build and maintain a shared understanding and put outcome of a project before the output. You'll learn, amongst other topics, how to best assess the need to be satisfied by a project and how to build and properly communicate the solution to be delivered
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Agile Sailors - A Journey from a Monolithic Approach to Microservices
Over the last couple of years eSailors IT solutions has implemented big technological and organisational changes: from functional silos to cross-functional teams, from a work flow that looked like an assembly line to dynamic loops, from a monolithic platform to microservices, from hierarchical command-and-control to leadership as a team sport. This article provides a summary of their journey.
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Case Study: Selecting Big Data and Data Science Technologies at a large Financial Organisation
Adopting Big Data and Data Science technologies into an organisation is a transformative project similar to an agile transformation and with many similar challenges. In this article, the author describes such a project for a FTSE100 financial services company.
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Predictable Agile Delivery
Human teams are unique, non-linear and unpredictable, but given the right conditions, their output can become linear, scaled and predictable. Managers have an enabling role to play: encouraging the development of predictability; understanding the needs of their teams; and rolling-up their sleeves to clear the blockages themselves or by escalating the problem promptly and responsibly.
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How Java Developers Can Use the Wiremock Framework to Simulate HTTP-Based APIs
A common syndrome in development shops today is the repeated creation of over-the-wire stubs and mocks for testing. In this article Wojciech Bulaty covers how Java developers can avoid reinventing the wheel and leverage Wiremock to build over-the-wire HTTP(s) stubs.
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Can Your Company Benefit from a Progressive Web App?
Progressive web apps is a new concept that bridges the gap between websites and mobile apps. They promise offline capabilities as well as improved speed and performance. In this article, Mark Pedersen reviews the benefits of progressive web apps and how your company can benefit from this emerging technology.
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Solving Business Problems with Data Science
Enterprises are increasingly realising that many of their most pressing business problems could be tackled with the application of a little data science. This article, the first in a series, looks at the foundations of a successful business-orientated data science project.
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Virtual Panel: State of Reactive in JavaScript and Elm
Reactive programming in JavaScript and the web has fairly mature libraries, yet there is much more work to do before it becomes ubiquitous. In this virtual panel, we speak with three experts that work with reactive technologies about where we're at and where we're headed.