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Q&A on the Book- Problem? What Problem? with Ben Linders
Ben Linders has written a new book focused on helping teams and individuals identify and address impediments. Titled Problem? What Problem? The book presents ideas and experience around problem-solving approaches using an agile mindset and principles to help teams rapidly overcome challenges and use impediments as opportunities to learn and adapt.
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Scalable Cloud Environment for Distributed Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow
In this article, author Lena Hall discusses how to use Apache Airflow to define and execute distributed data pipelines with an example of the workflow framework running on Kubernetes on Azure cloud platform.
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Four Case Studies for Implementing Real-Time APIs
API calls now make up 83% of all web traffic. Competitive advantage is no longer won by simply having APIs; the key to gaining ground is based on the performance and the reliability of those APIs. This article presents a series of four case studies of how real time APIs were implemented.
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Q&A on the Book Fail to Learn
The book Fail to Learn by Scott Provence explores how we can learn from failure and how trainers and course designers can use gamification to foster failure and learning in their educational environments. When playing games it's ok to try out something, lose the game, learn from it, and restart and try something else.
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Load Testing APIs and Websites with Gatling: It’s Never Too Late to Get Started
Conducting load tests against APIs and websites can both validate performance after a long stretch of development and get useful feedback from an app in order to increase its scaling capabilities and performance. Engineers should avoid creating “the cathedral” of load testing and end up with little time to improve performance overall. Write the simplest possible test and iterate from there.
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The Case for Explainable AI (XAI)
Artificial Neural Networks offer significant performance benefits compared to other methodologies, but often at the expense of interpretability. Black box algorithms have precipitated a number of high-profile controversies arising from the inability to understand their inner workings. The efforts seeking to provide more transparency in this regard is referred to as Explainable AI (XAI).
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Adaptive Architecture: a Bridge between Fashion and Technology
Adaptive architecture is a feature of agile software development and is also a source of competitive advantage in the fashion industry. Nike's collaboration with Virgil Abloh on "The Ten" is an example of how these principles play out.
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Azure + Spring Boot = Serverless - Q&A with Julien Dubois
Microsoft seems to prove over and over again its focus on cloud and the Java ecosystem is the new normal. Even though Java has been amongst the supported languages for Azure functions for some time now, Julien Dubois experimented with Spring Boot and Azure to see what this combination means for Azure serverless computing. InfoQ reached out to him to explore further his experience on this topic.
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From Monolith to Event-Driven: Finding Seams in Your Future Architecture
One of the challenges of migrating your system’s architecture is excluding non-desirable attributes and leaving the target state uncorrupted. An event-driven architecture and its related patterns, CQRS and Event Sourcing, are positioned well to introduce seams into the architecture that allow you to separate legacy and modern elements.
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Q&A on the Book The Art of Leadership
In the book The Art of Leadership, Michael Lopp shares stories of leadership habits and practices. Examples include reading the room, getting feedback, delegation, giving compliments, understanding the culture, and being kind. In the book Lopp describes how he practiced and refined these leadership habits over the years and what he has learned from doing so.
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A Five-step Guide to Building Empathy That Can Boost Your Development Career
Empathy isn’t just a nice-to-have soft skill. It’s one of the top six skills required of employees in 2020 and beyond, according to Forbes. Learn why empathy is critical for developers in particular and explore these five steps you can take to cultivate empathy in your day-to-day: 1. Understand yourself, 2. Understand them, 3. Build comfort into conversations, 4. Learn how to listen, 5. Practice.
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Q&A on the Book Untapped Agility
The book Untapped Agility by Jesse Fewell explains what holds organizations back in increasing their agility. It describes barriers that may appear during an agile transformation and provides “rebound” moves for unblocking the transformation and moving forward. This recurring pattern of Boost, then Barrier, then Rebound both encourages and enables frustrated agile champions.