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Types Working for You, Not against You
Richard Dallaway shows an example of what Scala looks like when using pattern matching over classes, how to encode an idea into types and use advanced features of Scala without complicating the code.
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Cargo "Cult"ure: Imitation Can Be Suicide
Glen Ford explains how Cargo Cults (imitation without understanding) are not only a danger in many facets of the industry, but can also be destructive when applied to changing a company's culture.
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An Introduction to Property Based Testing
Aaron Bedra focuses on describing a system as a series of models that can be used to systematically and automatically generate input data and ensure that a code is behaving as expected.
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Understanding Core Clojure Functions
Jonathan Graham presents how to implement our own versions of the Clojure functions reduce, count, filter, map and pmap.
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Acceptance Testing for Continuous Delivery
Dave Farley discusses using acceptance testing to work quickly and effectively, building functional coverage for complex enterprise-scale systems, and managing and maintaining those tests.
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How to Win Hearts and Minds
Chris Young and Kate Gray talk about applying methods used in political campaigns to the workplace to achieve goals and to influence and change a situation for the better.
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CD at LMAX: Testing into Production and Back Again
Sam Adams talks about testing at LMAX Exchange, extending functional tests into live monitoring of production through isolation, and moving fast through incremental delivery, quality and automation.
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Resilient Predictive Data Pipelines
Sid Anand discusses how Agari is applying big data best practices to the problem of securing its customers from email-born threats, presenting a system that leverages big data in the cloud.
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Streaming Auto-scaling in Google Cloud Dataflow
Manuel Fahndrich describes how they tackled one particular resource allocation aspect of Google Cloud Dataflow pipelines - horizontal scaling of worker pools as a function of pipeline input rate.
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Project Jigsaw in JDK 9: Modularity Comes To Java
Simon Ritter looks at the fundamentals of how modularity in Java works, explaining the impact project Jigsaw has on writing apps, and how encapsulation will change in JDK 9.
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Microservices for a Streaming World
Ben Stopford discusses using stream processing tools for real-time business apps, handling infinite streams, leveraging high throughput, deploying dynamic, fault-tolerant, and streaming services.
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Business Mapping: Building an Agile Organization
Tony Grout, Chris Matts talk about the emerging areas of Business Mapping and Skills Liquidity, achieving business agility by combining business strategy with the abilities and aspirations of people.
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