Month: July 2020
Remote Collaboration Fatigue is Real, Remote Workers are More Empathic, Remote Work is Here to Stay
MMS • Shane Hastie
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As the shift from in-person to remote working persists, organisations have been doing research into the impact this is having on individuals and teams. Studies by Gartner and Microsoft indicate that remote collaboration fatigue is real, remote workers are more empathic and inclusive, and remote work is here to stay.
By Shane Hastie
MMS • Dylan Schiemann Simon McEnlly
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Wallaby.js and Quokka.js are JavaScript/TypeScript productivity tools that provide additional capabilities within IDEs such as VS Code, WebStorm or Atom. Quokka.js provides additional runtime value introspection information within context in an IDE, while Wallaby.js provides distraction free testing by providing test results within the IDE. Today we’re joined by Simon McEnlly, COO at Wallaby.
By Dylan Schiemann, Simon McEnlly
MMS • Aditya Kulkarni
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Confluent, Inc., recently announced the Infinite Storage option for its standard and dedicated clusters. This offering is a part of the Project Metamorphosis initiative, which is focused on enabling Kafka with modern cloud properties. Organizations can have a centralized platform for all event data for real-time actioning and historical analysis with limitless storage and retention.
By Aditya Kulkarni
MMS • Christian Melendez
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An AWS engineer recently wrote about how Amazon deployment pipelines look and what practices they follow to deploy continuously to production. A pipeline validates changes in multiple environments running unit and integration tests, and use stages to stagger deployments to production. Teams don’t actively examine deployments as the pipeline monitors key metrics and can rollback if needed.
By Christian Melendez
MMS • Stefan Prodan
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Topics discussed included: how progressive delivery extends the core ideas of continuous delivery; how the open source Flagger Kubernetes operator can be used to implement a progressive delivery strategy via canary releasing with an API gateway or service mesh; and the new “GitOps toolkit” that has evolved from the Flux continuous delivery operator.
By Stefan Prodan
MMS • Anthony Alford
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Google has open-sourced their AI model for converting sequences of natural language instructions to actions in a mobile device UI. The model is based on the Transformer deep-learning architecture and achieves 70% accuracy on a new benchmark dataset created for the project.
By Anthony Alford
MMS • Roland Meertens
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To become a machine learning engineer, you have to interview. You have to gain relevant skills from books, courses, conferences, and projects. Include technologies, frameworks, and projects on your CV. In an interview, expect that you will be asked technical questions, insight questions, and programming questions. When given a technical task, demonstrate your skills as if you already had the job.
By Roland Meertens
MMS • Rohit Kelapure
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The twin pressures of servicing apps running in production and modernizing them to the cloud are putting stress on development and platform teams. App Modernization needs to scale and be made efficient through documentation, products and frameworks. This article looks at the reasons, and approach, to app modernization.
By Rohit Kelapure