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Scott Staples on Why Agile is Still Relevant
Recently InfoQ spoke to Scott Staples of IT services firm Mindtree on why he feels agile development is still relevant while the brand "agile" may not be, the underlying cause of many agile adoption failures and what is on the horizon "beyond agile"
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Becoming a Responsive Enterprise
Software-driven companies are taking over the world because they are responsive organizations, built on 'sense and respond' instead of 'plan and predict'. In the next decade every large scale organization will be digitized and will effectively become a software-driven enterprise. Vikram Kapoor, CEO at Prowareness, explored how organizations can increase their responsiveness.
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LinkedIn Details Production Kafka Debugging and Best Practices
LinkedIn’s Joel Koshy details their Kafka usage, debugging and monitoring two production incidents in using the core Kafka infrastructure concepts, semantics and behavioral patterns to plan for and detect similar problems in the future.
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Xcode 8 Brings Swift 3, Editor Plug-ins, and More
At WWDC 2016, Apple announced Xcode 8, the latest version of its IDE for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Now available in beta, Xcode 8 brings Swift 3, improved address and thread sanitizer, a new editor extension architecture, and more.
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Long-awaited jQuery 3.0 Brings Slim Build
The jQuery team has unveiled the long-awaited 3.0 release, bringing a new slimmed-down option as well as major new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
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Systems Programming in C#
Although the definition of system programming is fuzzy, it can be described as having to think at the bit, byte, instruction or CPU cycle level. Systems programming also implies demanding performance and reliability requirements. Joe Duffy, engineering director at Microsoft, presented strategies for system programming in C# at QCon New York. He also discusses pitfalls and how to mitigate them.
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Kief Morris: Implementing Infrastructure as Code
Moving applications to the cloud has somewhat become commodity in the meantime - not only for big players, but also for smaller companies that rely on flexibility and resource utilization. In his presentation "Implementing Infrastructure as Code", Kief Morris, cloud practice lead at ThoughWorks, shares some key principles and recommendations on how to leverage cloud based infrastructure.
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Mob Programming - an Interview with Woody Zuill
Woody Zuill gave a keynote on Mob Programming at the first Mob Programming Conference. He spoke to InfoQ about the common questions people ask, different ways to introduce Mob Programming, the main problem of the IT industry, the other activities where mobbing can fit, and the purpose of mobbing.
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May Release of Visual Studio Code
The latest release of Visual Studio Code adds terminal support to the editor, bug fixes to several annoyances, and revised whitespace handling.
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Spring Cloud Brixton.RELEASE Reaches General Availability
On May 11th, 2016 Pivotal announced that their latest release of Spring Cloud has reached General Availability (GA). InfoQ recently had the chance to chat with Pieter Humphrey, consulting product marketing manager at Pivotal, to gain further insight into this release and the state of their platform.
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Vale Agile Collaborator and Leader Jean Tabaka
The Agile community has lost a thought leader, influencer and friend, Jean Tabaka, who passed away earlier this week. She was best known through her work as an Agile Fellow at CA Technologies (formerly Rally Software) and author of the book "Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Product Leaders".
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APIs.guru Joins Growing List of API Indexes
APIs.guru is the latest entry into the API definition indexing, curation, and discovery space.
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Gluon Announces Full Java 9 Mobile Initiative
Gluon is making Java 9 development available to iOS and Android developers in the form of their Gluon VM project, a full Java 9 native port.
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Data Streaming Architecture with Apache Flink
Jamie Grier recently spoke at OSCON 2016 Conference about data streaming architecture using Apache Flink. He talked about the building blocks of data streaming applications and stateful stream processing with code examples of Flink applications and monitoring.
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The Roadmap to Kotlin 1.1
Kotlin development is heading towards version 1.1 and Kotlin lead language designer Andrey Breslav explained the roadmap to JetBrains’ JVM language new version, which will include major new language features.