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Kwonki, in this issue, January 27, 2015 Research, Development, Java, .NET, Dynamic Languages, Cloud Computing, Mobile, Process & Practices, Architecture & Design, Operations & Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture  SPONSOR AD Personalize Content With a Recommendation System. Maximize your online business with real-time recommendations. See how eBay, Walmart, and Glassdoor are using Neo4j to power their recommendation engines. Download the white paper. Have your heard? We have just announced the tracks for QCon New York 2015. Some of this year's 15 track topics will include Fraud Detection and Hack Prevention, Mobile, Continuously Deploying Containers in Production, Monoliths to Microservices, High Performance Streaming Data, Reactive Architecture Tactics, Modern Advances in Java Technology & more. Registration is $1,695 ($600 off) for the 3-day conference before Feb 14th. Research Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/research/ Defect Identification & Management Practices in Software Development - Part 1 This research item is one of two that look at the defect identification and management practices in software development. (Research) Development Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/development Building a Mars Rover Application with DynamoDB DDynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that aims to be easily managed, so you don't have to worry about administrative burdens such as operating and scaling. This article shows how to use Amazon DynamoDB to create a Mars Rover application. You can use the same concepts described in this post to build your own web application. (Article) Top Development News Headlines The Current Status of Browser-based Virtual Reality in HTML5 Java Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/java 5 Advanced Java Debugging Techniques Every Developer Should Know About With architectures becoming more distributed and code more asynchronous, pinpointing and resolving errors in production is harder than ever. In this article we investigate five advanced techniques that can help you get to the root cause of painful bugs in production more quickly, without adding material overhead. (Article) Securing Your Grails App - Beyond Authentication & Authorization Colin Harrington warns that application security is not a concern that we can ignore. Vulnerabilities come from various angles, but it is important to stay aware and vigilent so we can recognize and thwart threats. (Presentation) Grails 3.0 Preview Grails project lead, Graeme Rocher, presents a preview of the much anticipated version 3.0 rewrite of the Grails framework including presentation of the goals behind the changes and what will be achievable with the new version. (Presentation) The Quest for the Holy Grails Ken Kousen shows how to learn Grails from basic principles to advanced concepts by building a small, but interesting application. (Presentation) Top Java News Headlines Spring Boot 1.2.1 Released Pivotal Pulls Groovy/Grails Funding SPONSOR AD 5 Key Phases in Creating Successful Mobile Apps Learn about the key mobile product development activities needed in the strategy, design, development, marketing, and maintenance phases that will help your apps thrive in the highly competitive mobile marketplace. Learn More. .NET Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/dotnet Andrea Magnorsky on F#, Property Based Testing With FsCheck Andrea Magnorsky talks about her experience with adopting F# for .NET game development, where F# fits, property based testing with FsCheck, and much more. (Interview) Top .NET News Headlines .NET API Review - Part 2 Should all .NET Collections Implement all .NET Collection Interfaces? Microsoft Embraces GitHub for their .NET Compilers New VS2015 Preview Highlights Enhanced Diagnostic Tools Dynamic Languages Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/dynamic_languages 1.0.x Release for io.js The io.js team has released version 1.0 -- but the versioning does not suggest the platform is "production ready." Despite overtaking Node, io.js clarifies the release in its own FAQ: "The choice to release as 1.0.x was not to signify that io.js should be considered production-ready, but because it was a significant enough release from Node.js to warrant a major version increment," it says. (News) Top Dynamic Languages News Headlines TypeScript 1.4 Released, Adds Union Types, More ES6 Features SPONSOR AD 5 Unsung Tools of DevOps - Jonathon Thurman shares his five favorite DevOps tools which have been around a long time. They may not be flashy but they’re time tested and just work. See which tools make the cut and why. Download Now. Cloud Computing Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/cloud-computing Jacob Fahrenkrug on Building a Secure Platform for the Smart Home The Internet of Things is just around the corner and it will massively impact our lives. Most of the devices in our homes will become connected and collect data or react to certain events. Currently it is still uncertain how personal data can be protected and leveraged for crowd sourcing and swarm intelligence at the same time. Jacob is sharing the ideas that his company Yetu has to clarify this. (Interview) Top Cloud Computing News Headlines AWS Release EC2 Auto Recovery Feature in US East Region Heroku Adds GitHub and Dropbox Deployment Options SPONSOR AD Remediate the Root Cause of Performance Problems.  Increasing enterprise application complexity is making application performance management (APM) a top priority for IT teams in 2015. Learn about the benefits of a SaaS- based APM for tracking end-to-end application performance.Learn more. Mobile Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/mobile Xamarin Releases Unified iOS/Mac API with 64-Bit Support Xamarin last week announced version 8.6 of its iOS SDK (Xamarin.iOS), the first non-beta release to include the company's Unified API for iOS and Mac. The Unified API replaces the 32-bit MonoTouch and MonoMac APIs, enabling code re-use across both platforms and adding 64-bit support. (News) Top Mobile News Headlines Fastlane Brings Continuous Deployment to iOS Process & Practices Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/process-practices Learning Fast at Spotify Simon Marcus discusses the value of a learning environment in which learning from failure is valued. Simon discusses how Spotify approaches consensus within its teams and how experimenting with team make-up and tasking is not frowned upon. (Interview) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us! Getting RID of Risk with Agile One of the largest areas of waste in development is poorly formed requirements. This post presents a very simple technique that can be applied to all user stories to improve quality and reduce waste, as well as examining how this can fit into your current planning and estimation workflow via the underused ‘definition of ready’. It’s a very actionable concept that you can apply immediately. (Article) Gamification for Business – Recruitment, Management and Promotion Monica Wells describes gamification as a valuable business tool for both internal and external purposes, providing a strategy for spicing up routine activities of companies and helping them to improve team performance, foster collaboration between team members, encourage desired behaviors, increase the visibility of brands and drive innovation to sectors that benefit most from talent sourcing. (Article) Learn or Lose: Agile Coaching and Organizational Survival How can established organizations avoid being disrupted into oblivion? What are the key cultural and mental barriers to real learning and productive change? How can Agile approaches and coaching help, and how should they be customized to local conditions? Dan Prager explores the issues and gives a guided tour of helpful models and approaches. (Article) Building Hybrid Teams As globalisation and offshoring take over the workplace, building agile teams becomes more challenging - thankfully, here’s your non-PC (but culturally sensitive) guide on creating an environment that will allow you and your organisation to “kick some agile butt” no matter who or where you are! (Article) The Power of an Agile Mindset Linda Rising discusses the “agile mindset” - an attitude that equates failure and problems with opportunities for learning – sharing practical suggestions on how to become even more agile. (Presentation) Experimenting on Humans Aviran Mordo and Talya Gendler explain how their engineering team is supporting product managers in making the right decisions and getting their product roadmap on the right path. (Presentation) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us! Applying Theory of Constraints at Scale Tony Grout and Chris Matts discuss scaling Agile by highlighting the constraints that a company needs to address given its particular context, an approach that adapts to context rather than ignoring it. (Presentation) Top Process & Practices News Headlines The State of Testing in 2015 Using the "Worse is Better" Concept with Agile and Lean Achieving a Learning Culture that Supports Scaling Agile Technical Leadership for Agile Teams Scaling Agile: Frameworks and Experiences SPONSOR AD Get the 7 Habits of Highly Effective DevOps Improve your DevOps team with 7 practical tips from Forrester’s Kurt Bittner. Learn the seven principles of DevOps, proven by technology practitioners, today. Architecture & Design Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/architecture-design The Dirty Word of UX Design: Management Alisan Atvur shares success stories and failures of innovation managers within companies, providing methods for navigating organizational relationships and strengthening the role of designers. (Presentation) Redefine 2014: Opening Speech David Gauquelin keynotes on the role played by designers in imagining, building, and developing the products that will shape people’s lives in this new interconnected world. (Presentation) Have Your Cake and Eat It Too - Further Dispelling the Myths of the Lambda Architecture Tyler Akidau from Google demonstrates Google's MillWheel, a streaming system that promises low latency, strong consistency, and flexibility without relying on Lambda Architecture. (Presentation) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us! Intro to Datomic Stuart Sierra provides an introduction to Datomic's data model, architecture, query syntax, and transactions. (Presentation) Not Exactly! Fast Queries via Approximation Algorithms Fangjin Yang, creator of Druid, shows how approximation algorithms can help systems scale out linearly and process huge amounts of data quickly with a small memory footprint. (Presentation) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us! Continuous Delivery: Building Systems that Can Pivot Sam Newman and Zhamak Dehghani make an introduction to microservice architectures, explaining why they are ideal for organizations that want to optimize for fast speed of change. (Presentation) Top Architecture & Design News Headlines Facebook Open Sources Modules for Faster Deep Learning on Torch Don’t Share Code Between Microservices FEATURED eMag Web APIs: From Start to Finish This eMag contains a collection of articles and interviews from late 2014 with some of the leading practitioners and theorists in the Web API field. The material here takes the reader on a journey from determining the business case for APIs to a design methodology, meeting implementation challenges, and taking the long view on maintaining public APIs on the Web over time. (eMag) Operations & Infrastructure Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/operations-infrastructure Getting Started with Monitoring using Graphite Setting up a new monitoring system might seem daunting at first. Franklin Angulo guides us through the first steps and explains the architecture and inner workings of a Graphite-based monitoring system. Key takeaways are understanding time series data and configuration, datapoint formats, aggregation methods and retention. (Article) The Evolution of Continuous Delivery at Scale @ Linkedin Jason Toy talks about the evolution and history of LinkedIn's release strategy. (Presentation) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us! Top Operations & Infrastructure News Headlines Apache Flink 0.8.0 Released, Roadmap for 2015 Published DevOps and Auditing Enterprise Architecture Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/enterprise-architect RESTful Grails 2 Jeff Scott Brown talks about the Grails 2 features and functionality related to building RESTful services. (Presentation) Top Enterprise Architecture News Headlines DevOps Adoption in the Large Enterprise