Month: September 2020
MMS • Rafiq Gemmail Katherine Kirk
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InfoQ talks to Katherine Kirk about her recently published talk on thriving when control is removed. We discuss the impact of the current pandemic on organisations. Kirk explains the importance of contextual strategies which acknowledge and counterbalance the impact of entropy.
By Rafiq Gemmail, Katherine Kirk
MMS • Bruno Couriol
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Rowan Merewood explained, in light of the new cookie policies being increasingly adopted, how to create and configure cookies according to the scope and security required by the situation. Merewood also showcased the options available to developers to trace and debug cookies sent in requests.
By Bruno Couriol
MMS • Shane Hastie Ben Linders
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Ben Linders has written a new book focused on helping teams and individuals identify and address impediments. Titled Problem? What Problem? The book presents ideas and experience around problem-solving approaches using agile mindset and principles to help teams rapidly overcome challenges and use impediments as opportunities to learn and adapt.
By Shane Hastie, Ben Linders
MMS • Ben Linders
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Games are learning experiences. They can help people to better understand soft skills and grow by providing space to safely experiment. InfoQ interviewed Corrado (Dex) De Sanctis about the benefits of playing games and his experience from playing the DSBuilders game.
By Ben Linders
Swift 5.3 Brings New Language Features, Better Developer Experience, and Improved Performance
MMS • Sergio De Simone
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Swift 5.3, which has recently become available with Xcode 12, includes a number of significant new features at the syntax level, including support for multi-pattern catch clauses, increased availability for implicit self, and more. Additionally, the Swift team has worked on improving runtime performance, especially when using SwiftUI, and developer experience.
By Sergio De Simone
MMS • Aditya Kulkarni
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The Netflix Engineering team recently blogged about Telltale, a monitoring and alerting tool that utilizes a variety of data sources to learn the typical health of an application. Telltale shows only the relevant data from application. There’s also information about important events, such as nearby deployments and regional traffic evacuations.
By Aditya Kulkarni
MMS • Sonya Moisset
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Sonya Moisset describes how GitHub Marketplace helped Pride in London automating and improving their workflow with different tools for accessibility, code coverage, code review, code quality, security and other functionalities (alerting with Slack). She talks about what OWASP is and how to improve the workflow for open source projects using GitHub Marketplace applications.
By Sonya Moisset
Introducing QCon Plus by InfoQ: A Virtual Conference for Senior Software Engineers and Architects
MMS • Adelina Turcu
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QCon Plus covers the trends, best practices, and solutions leveraged by the world’s most innovative software organizations. The conference is built to accelerate your learning with thoughtfully curated, shorter, focused technical sessions over 3 weeks featuring 54 speakers, 4 keynotes, 18+ facilitated peer sharing sessions, and 6 focused open space sessions.
By Adelina Turcu
Article: Scalable Cloud Environment for Distributed Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow
MMS • Steef-Jan Wiggers
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Amazon Connect is an omnichannel contact service for enterprises to set up and manage a contact center. It is based on the same technology used by 70,000 Amazon customer service associates around the world to power customer conversations.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers