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Piercing the Fog: Observability Tools from the Future
Visibility into those distributed systems and how they are performing is challenging. Despite all the observability tools available for site reliability, debugging remains incredibly difficult, and many SREs would agree that their debugging processes have only marginally improved. This article explores how observability for troubleshooting could be done from the user’s point of view.
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Improving Organizational Agility with Self-Management
This article presents "self-management" as a possibility to natively support agility to plant seeds and let both institutions and people thrive and benefit from it. Agility may go hand-in-hand with self-management as a way to shift mindsets and open a conversation to really find new ways of working in organizations.
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Migrating Monoliths to Microservices with Decomposition and Incremental Changes
Microservices migrations are not a trivial change. You have to think carefully about whether or they're right for you. Maybe a monolith would be enough for your context and business needs. In this article, Sam Newman shares some decomposition and incremental changes patterns that can help you to evaluate and migrate to a microservices architecture.
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How DSLs Withstand the Test of Time
Domain-specific languages let domain experts participate in the software development process. Few DSLs however withstand the test of time. Key success factors for longstanding DSLs seem to be user-centered design and adhering to the open–closed principle. Markdown, TeX, and CSS, have remained popular and relevant for two decades, even as their original target audience evolved.
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Performance Tuning Techniques of Hive Big Data Table
In this article, author Sudhish Koloth discusses how to tackle performance problems when using Hive Big Data tables.
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Adaptive Frontline Incident Response: Human-Centered Incident Management
The third article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience zeros in on the sources that comprise most of your company’s adaptive resources: your frontline responders. In this article, we draw on our experiences as incident commanders with Twilio to share our reflections on what it means to cultivate resilient people.
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Virtual Panel: the MicroProfile Influence on Microservices Frameworks
In mid-2016, the MicroProfile initiative was created as a collaboration of vendors to deliver microservices for enterprise Java. InfoQ recently asked the opinion of expert practitioners on how MicroProfile has influenced how developers today are building microservices-based applications, the emergence of new microservices frameworks and reverting back to monolith-based applications development.
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Cynefin Applied: Adapting to Changing Contexts
The book Cynefin: Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of our World by Dave Snowden describes the Cynefin framework and explores how it has developed over the years. It also provides stories where people who have applied Cynefin share their experiences.
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Low-Code Platforms and the Rise of the Community Developer: Lots of Solutions, or Lots of Problems?
Low-code platforms are the hottest enterprise software category right now. With the current level of investment, it is hard to imagine a future that doesn’t feature lots of bespoke business apps being built by non-IT staff for use by their teams. Visibility of low code solutions is the key to managing risk.
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AI No Silver Bullet for Cloud Security, But Here’s How It Can Help
In this article, the author looks at the real role of artificial intelligence in cloud security – the hype, the reality, and how we can resolve the gap between them. He encourages the reader to focus on making cloud security platforms that allow humans to provide truly intelligent threat responses, rather than relying on the machines to do it for us.
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AI Applied in Enterprises: Information Architecture, Decision Optimization, and Operationalization
The book Deploying AI in the Enterprise by Eberhard Hechler, Martin Oberhofer, and Thomas Schaeck gives insight into the current state of AI related to themes like change management, DevOps, risk management, blockchain, and information governance. It discusses the possibilities, limitations, and challenges of AI and provides cases that show how AI is being applied.
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The Brain is Neither a Neural Network Nor a Computer: Book Review of The Biological Mind
Underlying much of artificial intelligence research is the idea that the essence of an individual resides in the brain. This is contrary to neuroscience which has discovered that a brain cannot work independently from the body and its environment. Understanding this enables us see what is reasonable to expect from artificial intelligence, as well as technology designed to improve human life.