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How to Use Encryption for Defense in Depth in Native and Browser Apps

Isaac Potoczny-Jones discusses the pros and cons of application-layer encryption. He covers the attack surface of application-layer encryption in the browser, how it is very different from native clients, and how WebCrypto helps.

Isaac Potoczny-Jones
on May 13, 2020
Culture & Methods

2020 State of Testing Report

The 2020 State of Testing report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. It shares results from the 2020 testing survey organized by Joel Montvelisky from PractiTest, and Lalit Bhamare from Tea-Time with Testers.

Ben Linders Lalitkumar Bhamare Joel Montvelisky
on May 12, 2020
AI, ML & Data Engineering

The Road to Artificial Intelligence: a Tale of Two Advertising Approaches

Artificial Intelligence startups received a record $26.6bn in funding last year, yet a litany of stakeholders continue to demonstrate a lack understanding and education around the discipline. It is critical that entrepreneurs, investors, regulators, and consumers all remain vigilant in properly assessing advertising claims as relates to powerful, constantly-evolving technology.

Lloyd Danzig
on May 11, 2020
Cloud

Edge Computing and Flow Evolution

Edge computing echoes science from the field of complex adaptive systems that explains scaling patterns. Understand this science to make better decisions about what to run "on the edge."

James Urquhart
on May 08, 2020
Architecture & Design

Data Gateways in the Cloud Native Era

Data Gateways act like API Gateways but focus on access to the data aspect. A Data Gateway offers abstractions, security, scaling, federation, and contract-driven development features. There are many types of Data Gateways, from the traditional data virtualization technologies, to light GraphQL translators, cloud-hosted services, connection pools, and fully open source alternatives.

Bilgin Ibryam
on May 07, 2020
Java

Understanding Classic Java Garbage Collection

Java Garbage Collection remains a topic of major interest even after 25 years. Many developers are still confused about the fundamentals of the topic, even of the most widely-used implementation (Parallel on Java 8).

Ben Evans
on May 06, 2020
Culture & Methods

Critical Metrics to Keep Delivering Software Effectively in the "New Normal" World

The health of your software delivery capability is critical in the ‘new normal’ world. This requires the ability to track a hierarchy of metrics. Our top five overall delivery health metrics include: Time to Value; Deployment Frequency; and Team Engagement. Whichever metrics you choose, it is managing to metrics that is critical in the ‘new normal’ world.

Charlie Ponsonby
on May 05, 2020
Culture & Methods

What Do AI and Test Automation Have in Common?

These days AI is a big buzzword. While it rises in popularity, the controversy surrounding it flourishes as well. We will demystify AI, and see how it is already embedded in our everyday life, and then you are going to learn about how we (the folks at Testim.io) utilised this kind of groundbreaking technology to bring test automation to the next level.

Daniel Gold
on May 04, 2020
Cloud

The Modern Edge

This article shares stories of how interesting companies are using edge computing in ways you might not expect to solve real problems and help build a better Internet.

Zack Bloom
on May 02, 2020
Java

Java Feature Spotlight: Text Blocks

Java SE 13 introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second preview, with minor changes, and is scheduled to become a permanent feature of the Java Language in Java SE 15. In this article Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle, provides a deep-dive into the topic.

Brian Goetz
on May 01, 2020
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Reinforcement Machine Learning for Effective Clinical Trials

In this article, author Dattaraj Jagdish Rao explores the reinforcement machine learning technique called Multi-armed Bandits and discusses how it can be applied to areas like website design and clinical trials.

Dattaraj Jagdish Rao
on Apr 30, 2020
Culture & Methods

The Value and Purpose of a Test Coach

Introducing business-oriented automated testing can involve a huge cultural change. For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters. In this article we hear from someone living this new role, using Domain Oriented Testing on a daily basis to ensure acceptance tests have full story coverage, and unit tests verify business behavior, not implementation.

Matt Stephens
on Apr 29, 2020