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Nexus Guide for Scrum is Published
Nexus is a framework for developing and sustaining large software development projects. The Nexus Guide can be used next to the Scrum Guide to scale Scrum and support the integrated effort of multiple software development teams.
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Various Types of Kanban Boards
This post talks about five innovative kanban boards.
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Microsoft and Docker Preview Windows Server Containers
It is now possible to run Windows-specific software inside containers. Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 is the first Windows release to support this technology. Windows Server Containers offer very similar capabilities to Linux containers, but in the context of the Windows ecosystem. Docker also released its own technical preview that showcases how it's able to manage Windows containers.
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Go 1.6 will Make its Garbage Collector Faster
While Go 1.5 is still relatively new on the blocks, the Go team is already at work on improving its new, low-pause, concurrent garbage collector, which aims to make Go better suited for new application fields, Google engineers Austin Clements and Rick Hudson say.
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Storing Secrets at Scale with HashiCorp's Vault: Q&A with Armon Dadgar
After an informative presentation by Armon Dadgar at QCon New York that explored security requirements within modern production systems, InfoQ sat down with Dadgar and asked questions about HashiCorp’s Vault, an open source tool for managing secrets at scale.
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Microsoft Azure Event Hubs Surpasses 1 Trillion Transactions in a Single Month
The Microsoft Azure Event Hubs messaging service processed approximately 150 terabytes and 30 billion messages per day, or 375 000 messages per second, in June 2015, according to the Microsoft Azure Service Bus product team.
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The Alliance for Open Media Is Set to Create a Free Video Format
Several large Internet companies - Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix – have formed the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), an organization aiming to create an open royalty free video format that is interoperable, fit for various devices including mobile ones, supporting high quality video formats including UHD and commercial/non-commercial content.
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Oracle Cutting Java Evangelist Staff
Oracle shocked the Java world this week by announcing the dismissal of some of their top Java evangelists including Cameron Purdy and Simon Ritter.
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JetBrains Change Ignites Debate Regarding Mandatory Subscription Licensing
JetBrains, publisher of IntelliJ IDEA and ReSharper, among others, has announced sweeping changes to its licensing practices. Under these new changes, all of their developer based tools will be switching to a subscription based model, requiring continuous payment in order to be used.
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Agile New Zealand Conference Wrapup
The Agile New Zealand conference was held in Wellington, New Zealand last week. With over 350 conference attendees, four keynotes talks and 24 session the conference had an overall theme of Transformation and three tracks - Agile Transformation, Agile Enterprise and Digital Transformation. InfoQ attended the conference and there will be interviews and articles published in the next few months.
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Data Workflow Management Using Airbnb's Airflow
Airbnb recently opensourced Airflow, its own data workflow management framework. Airflow is being used internally at Airbnb to build, monitor and adjust data pipelines. Airflow’s creator, Maxime Beauchemin and Agari’s Data Architect and one of the framework’s early adopters Siddharth Anand discuss about Airflow, where it can be of use and future plans.
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The Transition to a New Log4j: a Q&A with Log4j’s Project Management Committee
As recently published in InfoQ, the Apache Software Foundation announced the end of life of version 1 of Log4j, encouraging users to upgrade to version 2 of the popular logging framework. InfoQ reached out to the members of the Apache Logging Services Team to find out more about the transition to the new version of Log4j and about its future.
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A Proposal to Add Option Types for References to C# 7
Mads Torgersen, C# language program manager at Microsoft, has recently outlined a proposal for the introduction of option types for references in C# 7. Option types are meant as a means to make the language safer and reduce the occurrence of null reference exceptions, which, as Torgersen says, are rampant in C# since any reference type can reference a null value.
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Playing Games with the Agile Essentials
The agile essentials from Ivar Jacobson International is a starter kit of agile practices, provided as a deck of cards. Teams can play games with these cards to learn agile practices and inspect and adapt their way of working.
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Typescript to Support React
Microsoft have released the beta for TypeScript 1.6, and with it support for React. Program manager Jonathan Turner explains that while the TypeScript team has collaborated with teams responsible for libraries including Dojo, Aurelia, and Angular, React is "an important library" that that has been difficult for TypeScript developers.