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Should Teams Decouple Cadences?
Recently a Twitter discussion took place about allowing teams to have multiple cadences, for instance by using a different rhythm for planning the work and for learning and improving. Decoupling cadences gives teams room to explore and learn what works best for them; it can lead to more adaptability and autonomy and better outcomes.
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Amazon Web Services Releases IoT Analytics in Preview
At the recent re:Invent conference, Amazon announced a preview release of AWS IoT Analytics. The solution was presented during a few sessions at the event.
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GitHub Takes Stance for Net Neutrality
At the beginning of December, GitHub made its stance in favor of net neutrality public. Now that the FCC has voted to repeal regulations protecting it, GitHub says the fight is not over. InfoQ has spoken with GitHub’s chief strategy officer, Julio Avalos.
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How Google Develops New Managers
Alex Langshur, host of Google Partners Podcasts, has launched the podcast Google HR secrets: identifying & developing great managers, interviewing Sarah Calderon, People Development at Google, on how Google selects, trains, and develops their managers.
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JetBrains Launches GoLand Go IDE
JetBrains has moved its Go IDE from its early access programme to market. Now branded as GoLand, the IDE extends the IntelliJ platform making its core functionality specific to Go. This follows suit with their other language-specific tools such as PyCharm for Python and RubyMine for Ruby.
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Panel on the Future of AI
An SF QCon panel on the future of AI explored some issues facing machine learning today. The areas explored: critical issues facing AI right now, how has technology changed the way people are hired, how non-leading edge companies make the best use of current technologies, what the role of humans in relation to AI is, and exciting new breakthroughs on the immediate horizon.
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Microsoft Updates Cosmos DB with Cassandra Support and Provides Better Availability Guarantees
Last month at Microsoft Connect 2017, Azure Cosmos DB received several new updates, including support for using the Cassandra NoSQL database API and increased guarantees for availability. With the Cassandra NoSQL database API, customers can run operations inside Cosmos DB on a data model. The availability guarantee moves from 99.99 percent to 99.999 percent.
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Rust in Visual Studio and VS Code
Daniel Griffen has released a preview version of a Rust language service for Visual Studio. This plugin requires Visual Studio 2017 Preview, an experimental release stream for testing new VS features.
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A Look at JSON-RPC
In yesterday’s report on the Language Server Protocol Support for Visual Studio, we mentioned that LSP is built on top of JSON-RPC 2.0. While it was created over a decade ago, JSON-RPC isn’t as well-known as SOAP or REST.
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Using Agile Principles with Scrum Studio to Increase Organizational Responsiveness
Using a change approach based on agile principles with Scrum Studio helped a Dutch pension and investment management company to become more responsive at structurally lower costs. The change team practiced what they preached by applying transparent and iterative change with similar characteristics as the intended end result. They established a culture where people are taking responsibility.
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Spring Security 5.0.0 Released
Pivotal has released Spring Security 5.0.0, the first major release since 4.0.0, featuring OAuth support and support for project Reactor and WebFlux.
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React Adopts RFC Process
Facebook has decided to adopt a new Request for Comments (RFC) process to help guide the design of React and smooth the pathway from idea to implementation. The new process, based on the Rust RFC process, asks developers to submit an RFC before beginning work on a large change to React's codebase.
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Microsoft Quantum Development Kit Available to Developers
Microsoft announced its plans to build a quantum computer at its Ignite conference and promised a development kit. Now, the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit has become available as a free preview.
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Language Server Protocol Support for Visual Studio
Like Visual Studio Code and a variety of editors, Visual Studio is adding support for the Language Server Protocol. This will allow new programming languages to be added to Visual Studio with a fraction of the effort currently required.
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The First Nine Projects Proposed for EE4J
As part of the process to transition Oracle Java EE 8 and GlassFish technologies to the Eclipse Foundation, the first nine projects have been proposed to ultimately be included in the Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J). Dmitry Kornilov, senior software development manager at Oracle, and Michael Milinkovich, executive director at the Eclipse Foundation, spoke to InfoQ about these new projects.