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Wave 2 Agile: Living the Agile Mindset
Living the agile mindset means actually doing it, not just talking about it. Living agile is only accessible to those who say yes to personal growth in a big way. If you want different behaviours in your organization, change your own behaviour. This is what Michael K Sahota is calling "Wave 2 of Agile", and invites everyone to join.
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Electron 3 Release Increases Stability
The Electron team recently announced the release of version 3 of Electron. This release includes numerous enhancements and improvements including support for reading massive files, better APIs for managing applications, and logging and performance measurement capabilities.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure IoT Central
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure IoT Central, a software as a service solution for working with the internet of things. With Azure IoT Central, Microsoft envisions a low-code approach to designing, developing, configuring and managing IoT devices, while providing out-of-the-box security, scalability, and integration with processes and applications.
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Babel 7 Release Improves Support for ES.Next Proposals and TypeScript
The Babel 7 release includes many significant changes and improvements including support for TypeScript transpilation and a better approach to managing ES.Next proposals.
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Alibaba Cloud Expands Their Presence in the EMEA Region with UK Data Centers
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, announced the opening of two new availability zones in the United Kingdom. With the addition of these availability zones, Alibaba is increasing its presence in the EMEA region.
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IBM to Acquire Red Hat for $34 Billion
IBM announced this afternoon that it will acquire open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion, the largest deal IBM has ever done, according to Reuters. The deal will help IBM expand its reach as an enterprise cloud computing provider.
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The Future of Java is Today: CodeOne (née JavaOne) Keynote Highlights
Following from previous JavaOne events, the inaugural Oracle CodeOne 2018 was recently held in San Francisco, USA. Headline announcements in the Monday night keynote, titled “The Future of Java Is Today”, included: the new Java/JDK release cadence is proceeding as planned; Oracle (and many other organisations) are continuing to support and contribute to Java; and more.
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Scaling Global Traffic at Dropbox with Edge Locations and GSLB
The Dropbox engineering team shared their experience of architecting and scaling their global network of edge locations. Located around the globe, these run a custom stack of nginx and IPVS and connect to the Dropbox backend servers over their backbone network. A combination of GeoDNS and BGP Anycast ensures availability and low latency for end users.
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DigitalOcean Survey Results Reveal the State of Open Source
Survey results released by DigitalOcean show that a majority of developers now invest in open source, while their employers fail to do so. 55% of respondents contribute to open source in a variety of ways, but only 25% of companies donate greater than $1000 annually, and 66% of companies don't offer time to work on open source projects.
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QCon San Francisco 2018 Preview: What You Can Expect from This Year’s Conference
QCon, the series of global software conferences organized by InfoQ, is returning to the Bay Area for the 12th annual event, November 5th - 7th, and we’re expecting around 1,600 senior individual contributors and architects to join us. As in years past, the conference runs over three days with two bonus workshop days.
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Redis 5.0 Released with New "Streams" Data Type
Redis recently announced version 5 of its popular database, 15 months after the release of Redis 4. Probably the most important feature of this version is the support for a new data type, Streams. Sorted set functionality has also improved and Redis modules have also been expanded, with the introduction of Clusters and Timers APIs. LOLWUT and other improvements are reviewed in the article...
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Google Releases New Security Features for Compute Engine: Resource-Level IAM and IAM Conditions
Google announced two new Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) features to help customers manage their security and access control in the Google Compute Engine better. These features are the resource-level IAM to set policies on individual resources, and IAM conditions to grant access based on predefined conditions.
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Angular 7 Released with Virtual Scroll, Drag and Drop, CLI Prompts and More
Google has delivered Angular 7. This version brings Virtual Scroll, Drag and Drop, CLI Prompts, and more.
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A Brief History of High-Performing Teams by Jessica Kerr
If you're looking for an early example of a high-performing, agile team, then study the Florentine Camerata, a group formed in Florence, Italy, around 1580 that reformed their contemporary music with the creation of opera. The lessons of the camerata, and similar teams throughout history, were the subject of Jessica Kerr's keynote presentation at Explore DDD 2018.
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Organizational Refactoring at Mango
To increase agility, companies can descale themselves into value centers in charge of a business strategic initiative, with end-to-end responsibility and with full access to the information regarding customer needs. You need to create spaces where people can cross-collaborate and learn, using for instance self-organized improvement circles, Communities of Practice or an internal Open Source model.