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Dojo’s were a popular topic at DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020, appearing initially in Gene Kim’s opening remarks on the first day of the three-day virtual conference when he referred to Target’s dojo framework as shared in the IT Revolution Forum ebook. The concept went on to feature in talks from adidas, Virgin Atlantic, Comcast, Sky, Verizon, US Bank and Walmart.

By Helen Beal

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A developer’s machine, compromised by attackers, was able to use Safari auto-fill to log into passwords.google.com, disable 2FA and extract passwords without notification. InfoQ spoke to Amos (@fasterthanlime) on Twitter about his experience and advice for others who might find themselves in the same situation. Read on to find out what happened, and what you should do to protect your assets.

By Alex Blewitt

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Kelly Shortridge, a product and strategy expert in information security, has described how security should be treated as a product. Analyzing the “we mindset” and game theory she puts forth DevOps and InfoSec as a coordination game.

By Aditya Kulkarni

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Vladik Khononov discusses testing the architecture of a system, covering what makes a good architecture, identifying a big ball of mud, an exhausted architecture, and automating such tests.

By Vladik Khononov

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Jeff Foster talks about the Westrum model of culture and shares some practical steps that Redgate has taken to improve the way they build products by building a generative culture.

By Jeff Foster

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In this podcast, Nora Jones, Co-Founder and CEO at Jeli and co-author of O’Reilly’s “Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice”, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: chaos engineering and resilience engineering, planning and running effective chaos experiments, and learning from incidents.

By Nora Jones

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Recently Couchbase announced the general availability of Couchbase Cloud, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). The Cloud NoSQL service is currently available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure and Google will follow by the end of the year.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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High Resolution Time Level 2 joined the list of web standards. The new standard updates and replaces the previous High Resolution Time Level Level 1 standard. Level 2 strengthens the reliability and precision of performance monitoring, animations, audio cues, and synchronization between browsing contexts.

By Bruno Couriol

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Vincent Warmerdam talks about cautionary tales of mistakes that might happen when we let data scientists on a goose chase for accuracy. It may surprise us, but highly accurate models are more damaging than the inaccurate ones. He shares some work that his team is doing to make sure that chatbots don’t fall into this trap.

By Vincent Warmerdam

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Denise Yu covers a brief history of distributed computing, presents a survey of key academic contributions to distributed systems theory including the CAP theorem and the FLP correctness result, and digs into why network partitions are inevitable today. Denise Yu talks about why one needs to account for the human factor when designing a complex system.

By Denise Yu