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Building Inclusive Mini Golf: a Practical Guide to Accessible XR Development

Colby Morgan discusses practical strategies and technical examples for building accessible and inclusive XR experiences. Learn about their core design principles, including accessibility at the start, invisible features, simplicity, and layered depth, using Walkabout Mini Golf as a case study.

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Architecture & Design

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Fitness Functions for Your Architecture

Software, its size, its requirements, and its infrastructure environment evolve over time. Software architecture should evolve accordingly, to meet current and future operational and developmental requirements. Fitness functions are guardrails that enable the continuous evolution of your system's architecture, within a range and a direction, that you desire and define.

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AI Infrastructure

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Responsible AI for FinTech

Lexy Kassan discusses the critical aspects of responsible AI, focusing on regulatory updates like the EU AI Act and its implications for FinTech. She explains the levels of responsible AI, from ethical principles to practical implementation, including AI governance. Explore FinTech's disruptive AI response, open-source use, workforce shifts, review boards & risk frameworks.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Productivity Lessons in Moving from Big Tech to Scaling a Startup

Rachel Potvin discusses the key differences in developer productivity between startups and established tech companies. Drawing from her experiences at GitHub and Google, she explains the critical role of urgency, flexible team structures, lean metrics, top-down planning, and a culture of experimentation in driving startup success. She also shares practical examples and actionable strategies.

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DevOps

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Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs

This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime.

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Culture & Methods

Panel: Startup and VM Futures

A lot of the techniques & approaches that are used for developing and improving software performance are tried and tested rather than innovative-but where does that leave startups who leverage the VM?

Monica Beckwith Anil Kumar Gil Tene Mark Stoodley Mikael Vidsted Sergey Kuksenko
on Feb 20, 2020

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Culture & Methods

High Performing Teams Act Like Owners

Katharina Probst talks about what it means to act like an owner and why teams need ownership to be high-performing.

Katharina Probst
on Feb 20, 2020

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40:48
Development

Small Is Beautiful: How to Improve Security by Maintaining Less Code

Natalie Silvanovich explains several causes of unnecessary attack surfaces and how to avoid them.

Natalie Silvanovich
on Feb 20, 2020

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47:43
Culture & Methods

Panel: Ethics in Software Engineering

The panelists explore emerging ethical issues related to software engineering, as well as how they can potentially be addressed.

Ayana Miller Bruce Edward DeBruhl Theo Schlossnagle Megan Cristina
on Feb 19, 2020

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52:25
DevOps

Building Confidence in Healthcare Systems through Chaos Engineering

Carl Chesser covers how Cerner evolved their service workloads and applied gameday exercises to improve their resiliency.

Carl Chesser
on Feb 19, 2020

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44:48
.NET

My House Runs .NET - Smart Home Automation with .NET Core and Azure

Cam Soper shows how to drive a smart home hub with .NET Core, SmartThings and Hubitat.

Cam Soper
on Feb 19, 2020

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

Breakthroughs and the Future of (Deep) Reinforcement Learning

Andreas Bühlmeier discusses the foundation of Reinforced Learning and demonstrates how it is implemented. Also, he shows how to track and understand a system’s learning progress.

Andreas Bühlmeier
on Feb 17, 2020

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Architecture & Design

Fail Faster: Quick UX Design Techniques to Drive toward Success

Ash Banaszek gives simple techniques that enable people to think through multiple solutions and get unstuck from a single idea, iterate on designs, and rally the team around this process.

Ash Banaszek
on Feb 16, 2020

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Culture & Methods

Agile Leadership in Practice

Jeremy Renwick covers the practicalities across a range of topics including: Changing learnt behaviours and mental models, Empowerment, Delegation and trust, Feedback, and Organizational design.

Jeremy Renwick
on Feb 16, 2020

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42:57
Culture & Methods

Mapping Skills and Capability

Emily Webber discusses using skills and capability maps.

Emily Webber
on Feb 16, 2020

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28:22
Development

Let's Start an Epidemic

Doc Norton explores how things like disease, politics, and even moods travel through social networks, discussing the impact people have on others.

Doc Norton
on Feb 16, 2020

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Mobile

Secure IoT Command, Control, and Exfil with Apache MiNiFi

Andy LoPresto discusses the need to secure IoT devices, detailing how to do that with Apache MiNiFi.

Andy LoPresto
on Feb 15, 2020

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