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Cloud Automation and Management

In this eMag, we curated a series of articles that look at automation in the cloud and management at scale. We spoke with leading practitioners who have practical, hands-on experience building efficient scalable solutions that run successfully in the cloud. (eMag)
   

Development Latest Content
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Finding the Needle in the Haystack - or - Troubleshooting Distributed Systems

Anthony Molinaro discusses the challenges of troubleshooting distributed systems and using Mondemand to track down issues with various services in a distributed system. (Presentation)
   
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Java Latest Content
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Java EE 8 is Kicking Off

The Java Community Process machinery has started cranking on Java EE again, a little over a year after Java EE 7 was released. The goal is to create the next major version of Java Enterprise Edition. Meet Java EE 8 and JSR 366. (Article)
   

GS Collections by Example – Part 1

Donald Raab, creator of GS Collections which was open sourced by Goldman Sachs in 2012, reveals the power of that framework and how, together with Lambda expressions, it sprinkles Java with some of the sparkle of Smalltalk. (Article)
   

Threads, Needles, Stacks, Heaps

Ovidiu Dimulescu provides tips for working with local and remote JVMs, startup flags, analyzing and correlating thread dumps with CPU consumption, instrumentation, multi-tenant JVMs, memory games, etc. (Presentation)
   
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.NET Latest Content
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.NET Micro Framework Adds VS2013 Support

The NET Micro Framework has a new release which adds support for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio "14". This framework powers devices that Microsoft intends to build the "Internet of Things" and similar hardware-centric devices like the Raspberry Pi. (News)
   

Dynamic Languages Latest Content
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Learning Rails for Fun and Nonprofit

Scott Smerchek presents the benefits of using a nonprofit web project to learn Rails and what he learned while building LoveKC.org, introducing various Rails topics. (Presentation)
   

Cloud Computing Latest Content
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Microsoft Azure Joins SSD Storage Bandwagon

Microsoft has announced a new family of virtual machines called D-Series that offers better memory, CPU and faster I/O. With this Azure joins the club of elite IaaS providers with SSD backed storage. (News)
   
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Mobile Latest Content
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Swift Programming Language

This year, Apple surprisingly unveiled Swift, a new programming language for iOS and OSX at WWDC. Swift is an alternative to Objective-C introducing syntactical concepts and programming paradigms well known from other languages but not available in the iOS and OSX world yet. In this article, Gustavo Machadi, vice president of engineering at KidoZen, details why Swift is an enrichment to iOS and OSX. (Article)
   

An Unseen Interface

Halle Winkler overviews the state of speech technology, examining the opportunities in usability and new forms of usage that become available with speech interfaces in mobile apps. (Presentation)
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Creating Apps with 6-Year Old Girls (and their Dads)

Hannah Dee describes the 'Android Programming Family Fun Day', a one day AppInventor workshop introducing kids and their parents to mobile phone programming. (Presentation)
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Our Experience With (and Without) PhoneGap Build

Burin Asavesna shares his team’s experience building applications with PhoneGap Build. (Presentation)
   

Process & Practices Latest Content
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Mark Levison on the Magic and Science of Teams

Mark talks about what it takes to enable high-performing teams, the importance of stable teams, the value of cohesiveness, how the placement of water coolers and layout of lunch tables make a difference to team performance and how to overcome obstacles imposed by distance. (Interview)
   

Q&A on Kanban in Action

The book Kanban in Action by Marcus Hammarberg and Joakim Sundén is a practical introduction for using kanban to manage work. It provides ideas for applying kanban to visualize work and track progress, to limit work in process, and on how to use metrics for improvement. It also provides games and exercises to learn the kanban principles. (Article)
   

Six Agile Method Take-aways from the Reifer 2014 Quantitative Analysis of Agile Methods Study

Reifer Consultants LLC recently published a benchmarking report that compared the productivity, cost and quality performance achieved by software development projects that use agile methods against similar ones that employ traditional, plan-driven approaches. This condensed white paper summarizes seven ‘trends and take-aways’ taken from the report entitled "Quantitative Analysis of Agile Methods". (Article)
   

Delivering Continuous Delivery Continuously

Simon Hildrew discusses the tools and processes used by The Guardian to create a continuous delivery pipeline. (Presentation)
   

Data-Driven Software Engineering

Jevgeni Kabanov discusses the results of research on a delivering software model, the tools involved and the model itself, concluding on what one can expect from using certain tools. (Presentation)
   

Estimation for the Real World

Chris Trevarthen discusses how to reduce the amount of time spent estimating, providing more meaningful estimates, and building trust with the business. (Presentation)
   

How to Make Agile and Continuous Delivery Work at Your Company: Lessons Learned in the Trenches

Jeff French shares from his experience how to convince organizations to implement Agile methodologies. (Presentation)
   

GitHub Communications Culture and Tools

Matthew McCullough examines the last four years of communication culture at GitHub, starting with their internal mobile and web apps, use of pull requests, and emoji. (Presentation)
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Architecture & Design Latest Content
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Aerospike NoSQL Database Architecture

Aerospike is an open source distributed Key-Value NoSQL database. It supports flexible data schemas and ACID transactions. InfoQ spoke with Brian Bulkowski, Aerospike co-founder and CTO, about the NoSQL database architecture, advantages and its limitations. (Article)
   

Leveraging Big Data for Payment Risk Management

John Canfield discusses the changing payment ecosystem, innovations in mining and organizing unstructured data from many sources, and approaches to deciding for loss minimization and user experience. (Presentation)
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Learnings from Building and Scaling Gilt

Michael Bryzek shares lessons learned from startup to a leading ecommerce company, starting with behavioral psychology and reflecting on the decisions made and tradeoffs considered as they scaled. (Presentation)
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Operations & Infrastructure Latest Content
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Roy Rapoport on Canary Analysis at Netflix

Roy Rapoport explains the concept of canary analysis and how Netflix uses it to deploy software to its internal systems. (Interview)
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Enterprise Architecture Latest Content
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Technical Architecture in Banking and Gaming

Ben Evans considers some aspects of the enterprise architecture of financial systems and compares them to some characteristics of gaming environments that he has observed as a player. (Article)
   
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