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Keeping Systems "Poised for Change" with Evolutionary Architecture
At the Agile on the Beach 2016 conference, held in Cornwall, UK, Rebecca Parsons argued that the requirements for improved time-to-market and increased business agility can be achieved by architecting software for real evolvability, keeping systems poised for change, lowering the cost (and risk) of experimentation, maximising visibility and feedback, and aligning the organisation.
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Realm Mobile Platform to Enable Reactive Mobile Apps with Data Sync and Event Handling
Realm introduced its new mobile development platform aiming to provide seamless realtime synchronization, conflict resolution, and reactive event handling. Furthermore, its client-side database is now fully open-source.
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Ahead-of-Time (AOT) Compilation May Come to OpenJDK HotSpot in Java 9
OpenJDK HotSpot may get Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation as early as Java 9. InfoQ covers the proposal submitted in September 2016.
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Behaviour-Driven Development Anti-Patterns
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) can help in improving how business stakeholders and software developers communicate with each other, but there are some common anti-patterns when using Cucumber to run the automated tests, which Aslak Hellesøy, Matt Wynne and Steve Tooke described in a recent discussion.
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Twitter Open Sources Stream Processing Engine Heron
InfoQ's Rags Srinivas caught up with Karthik Ramasamy, co-creator and engineering manager at Twitter, regarding the Open Sourcing of the Stream-Processing engine Heron, a successor for Apache Storm.
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W3C Web Payments HTTP Specification Working Drafts Released
The goal for the W3C Web payments working group is standardization of the flow, APIs and messages for online payments. These standardizations are meant to be payment method agnostic. On September 15, working drafts for the HTTP API and messages specifications were released for public comment.
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Building a Scalable Minimum Viable Product
Scalability should be considered when developing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). An MVP needs to be technically scalable and you need to have a plan on how to scale quickly when your MVP attracts many users and becomes successful. Knowing your possible performance bottlenecks and using common sense while developing your MVP will get you very far, says Erik Duindam, CTO at Unboxd.
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Kubernetes 1.4 Simplifies Cluster Deployment, Improves Security and Federation
Kubernetes 1.4 has been released this week with new features that improve Dev and Ops experience, simplify cluster deployment, certificate handling, networking, security, and application deployment. Additionally, the release expands cluster federation capabilities, improving deployment across multiple clusters and multiple clouds.
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Continuous Improvement Beyond Retrospectives
If you want continuous improvement you can start with retrospectives, but you must go far beyond that with change management, culture change, and innovation. The most important thing in order to make change happen in organizations is creating new habits and changing your culture.
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TypeScript 2.0 Released
Microsoft has released TypeScript 2.0, with Simplified Declaration File Acquisition, Non-nullable Types and Readonly modifiers. The release delivers close ECMAScript spec alignment, wide support for JavaScript libraries and tools, and a language service that powers a first class editing experience in all major editors.
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Better Estimations Using Techniques from Psychology
Bias, priming, and salience are the main psychological factors that influence our ability to estimate. Knowing what happens psychologically when we estimate, and using techniques from psychology, helps us to deal with those factors so that we can improve our estimations argued Joseph Pelrine, social complexity scientist and PhD researcher in psychology.
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JavaOne 2016: IBM’s Keynote – Accelerating Innovation with Java
IBM had many innovative news to share this year at their keynote at Java One. InfoQ was there to cover their keynote.
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New Book on Docker Provides Comprehensive Introduction
Docker in Action, written by Jeff Nickoloff, provides a comprehensive introduction to Docker and how to integrate it into a development workflow. This book is intended for developers and operations engineers who wish to adopt Docker for application development and integrate it into their software delivery process.
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Onion Creates a $5 Linux Computer with Wi-Fi, Designed for IoT Applications
Onion.io has produced a $5 tiny Linux computer that's designed for Internet of Things applications. Onion calls the Omega2 the "World's smallest Linux server, with Wi-Fi built-in." The device has a 580 MHz CPU, 64MB of RAM, 16MB of flash storage, an integrated IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi, and supports programming in widely used languages like C, Python, Javascript, PHP, and Node.JS.
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Reviewing Key Concepts in .Net Core and .Net Standard
Choosing compilation targets was a relatively straightforward operation prior to .Net Core. Developers now face several possibilities and choosing a target is not so obvious anymore. To understand the big picture in .Net Core, the key concepts are: target framework monikers and .Net Standard.