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CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023: SBOMs, VEX, and Kubernetes
At CloudNativeSecrityCon 2023 in Seattle, WA, Kiran Kamity, founder and CEO of Deepfactor, led a panel discussion on software supply chain security, the practical side of SBOMs, and VEX.
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How to Lead and Manage in This Brave New Remote and Hybrid World
Hybrid working is a mindset of trusting people and providing opportunities to get the best from everyone regardless of place and time. Managers have the opportunity to make people feel empowered, motivated, and productive. Alternatively, they can squash creativity, fun and psychological safety.
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How Yahoo Secures Their Software Supply Chain at Scale: CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023
At CloudNativeSecrityCon 2023 in Seattle, WA, Hamil Kadakia and Yonghe Zhao, software engineers at Yahoo’s security team, presented on securing Software Supply Chain at Scale, and how to put together policies to safeguard against Supply Chain attacks.
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Sustainability for Development and Operations with DevSusOps
For a sustainability transformation, a business has to figure out how to measure its carbon footprint, come up with a plan to change the way it powers everything, and change the products they’re making, and even the markets that they operate in. Adrian Cockcroft spoke about sustainability in development and operations at QCon San Francisco 2022.
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CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023: Identifying Suspicious Behaviors with eBPF
At CloudNativeSecrityCon 2023 in Seattle, WA, Jeremy Cowan and Wasiq Muhammad, both engineers at AWS, presented on identifying suspicious behaviors with eBPP, its use cases, and how AWS is using it for threat detection and protection.
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How to Analyze Behavior and Influence Behavior Change with the ABC Model
Having an agile mindset is not enough; we need to change behavior for adopting agile. With the Antecedent Behavior Consequence (ABC) Model, you can analyze the behavior, figure out what triggers it, and think about strategies to drive behavioral change.
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CNCF Kicks off CloudNativeSecurityCon NA 2023
The Cloud Native SecurityCon North America 2023 kicked off this week in Seattle. The first dedicated event focused on Cloud Native Security with over 800 attendees, 70 sessions, 50 sponsors, and vendors organized by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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Test Automation Requires a Strategy and Clean Code
Having a good strategy for test automation can make it easier to implement test automation and reduce test maintenance costs. The test automation pyramid and automation test wheel can be of help when formulating a test automation strategy and plan. Test automation code should be clean code, and treated similarly to production code.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 20 in Rampdown Phase 2, New JEP Drafts, JobRunr 6.0, GraalVM 22.3.1
This week's Java roundup for January 23rd, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, GraalVM 22.3.1, TornadoVM 0.15, Spring Cloud Azure 5.0, Spring Shell 3.0.0 and 2.1.6, Spring Cloud 2022.0.1, Quarkus 2.16 and 3.0.Alpha3, Micronaut 3.8.3, JobRunr 6.0, MicroStream 8.0-EA2, Hibernate 6.2.CR2, Tomcat 10.1.5, Groovy 4.0.8 and 2.5.21, Camel Quarkus 2.16, JDKMon 17.0.45 and Foojay.io at FOSDEM.
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How to Assess Software Quality
The quality practices assessment model (QPAM) can be used to classify a team’s exhibited behavior into four dimensions: Beginning, Unifying, Practicing, and Innovating. It explores social and technical quality aspects like feedback loops, culture, code quality and technical debt, and deployment pipeline.
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Creating Environments High in Psychological Safety with a Combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach
Leadership is critical for making psychological safety happen, but they need to lead by example and show that it’s safe for people to take interpersonal risks. Complementing leadership with team workshops in communication skills can enable people to speak up and feel safe to fail.
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Improving Retrospective Effectiveness with End-of-Year and Focus Retrospectives
Doing end-of-year retrospectives can help to improve the effectiveness of agile retrospectives, by focusing on the actions done and the formats used. To increase the impact of retrospectives we can alternate between “global galactic” and focus retrospectives.
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Six Essential Tracks at QCon London, March 27-29, 2023: Architecture, FinTech, ML, and More!
QCon London international software conference returns this March 27-29 with its 17th edition. Technical leaders who are driving innovation and change in software will share the latest trends and techniques from their real-world projects to help you solve common challenges. Learn about emerging trends in 2023, how to adopt them, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to embrace the best practices.
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Sustainability for Software Companies: Reducing Impact by Deciding What Not to Do
Small and medium-sized companies can contribute to sustainability with emissions reduction, mental health offerings and inclusion. To support sustainability, software engineers can think about “what not to do” to reduce complexity and make solutions smaller, resulting in a smaller carbon footprint.
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Helping Teams Deliver with a Quality Practices Assessment Model
The quality practices assessment model explores quality aspects that help teams to deliver in an agile way. The model covers both social and technical aspects of quality; it is used to assess the quality of the team’s processes and also touches on product quality. With an assessment, teams can look at where their practices lie within the quality aspects and decide on what they want to improve.