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Development, Java, .NET, Dynamic Languages,Cloud Computing, Mobile, Process & Practices,Architecture & Design, Operations & Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture

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Some of the 14 confirmed tutorials include: Creating Android Apps in Java; Creating iOS Apps in Swift; Reactive programming in JavaScript; Scaling technology and organizations together, a CTO’s guide; Systems Thinking; The Go Programming Language; Introduction to Docker and containers, Advanced Docker concepts and container orchestration and more. Register before Mar 14th and save $500!

Development Latest Content
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Interview with Mike McQuaid about Git in Practice
Mike McQuaid, Software Engineer at GitHub, has written "Git in Practice" which provides over 60 techniques for working with and managing Git projects. InfoQ caught up with Mike, and asked about it, including his advice for teams considering migrating to Git and what tools to use. (Article)

Top Development News Headlines

Building Halo 4, a Video Game, Using the Actor Model

Your Code as a Crime Scene

Groovy Lead Guillaume Laforge Joins Restlet

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Java Latest Content
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Spring Framework - Today, Past and Future
Spring may not be in the air just yet but Juergen Hoeller, co-founder of the Spring Framework and project lead and release manager talks to InfoQ about how Spring has managed to stay relevant with developers by adapting to the changes in the underlying infrastructure such as Cloud, Big Data, NoSQL and so on. He talks about the Spring ecosystem and about the future of Spring including Spring 5.0. (Interview)

Go for the Money! JSR 354 Adds First Class Money and Currency Support to Java
First class money and currency support in Java are almost here. In this article Credit Suisse's Anatole Tresch, JSR 354 spec lead, discusses the shortcomings of the legacy currency and money support, motivation for the new APIs, with lots of examples. (Article)

Building a Recommendation Engine with Spring and Hadoop
Michael Minella uses Spring XD and Spring Batch to orchestrate the full lifecycle of Hadoop processing (ingest, process, export) and uses Apache Mahout to provide the audience with an example of recommendation processing. (Presentation)

Debugging Java 8: New Techniques for Fixing Production Code
Tal Weiss discusses some essential tools and advanced techniques Java developers can use in their code to debug live servers and resolve errors quickly. (Presentation) The next QCon is in New York, June 8-12, 2015. Join us!

How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Lambda
Todd Montgomery discusses how Java 8 has fared with a few new high performance network projects. (Presentation) The next QCon is in New York, June 8-12, 2015. Join us!

Top Java News Headlines

Spring XD 1.1: Simplifying Big Data like Spring did for Java EE

jClarity Releases Illuminate Gold Edition Performance Evaluation Tool

.NET Latest Content
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Mathias Brandewinder on F# for Data Science
Mathias Brandewinder explains why F# is well suited for data science: the REPL, type providers for seamless data access, functional programming concepts and much more. (Interview)

Top .NET News Headlines

ASP.NET5 Advances in VS2015 CTP6

Dynamic Languages Latest Content
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JavaScript is Cool…and the Market is Hot
JavaScript developers are in demand and now is the time to ride the wave. What are recruiters looking for and how can developers upgrade their skills to meet the needs of companies? Authors Areos Ledesma and Will Asrari discuss the JavaScript job market and how developers can prosper. (Article)

Top Dynamic Languages News Headlines

Angular 2.0 Concerns Addressed at ng-conf 2015

Flipboard Pushing Boundaries with its Web Version Release

Microsoft Shares Details on Spartan Rendering Engine

Node.js Fork JXcore Goes Open Source

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DevOps ToolChain for Beginners
This eMag aims at providing an overview of an example set of tools that would constitute a typical DevOps toolchain. These are popular tools today, but you should look at them as illustrations of the kind of tasks and workflows you might need to perform in your organization as you move along a DevOps path. (eMag)

Cloud Computing Latest Content
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Cloud Security Auditing: Challenges and Emerging Approaches
Security audits are an important part of IT security programs. In this article, the authors highlight the challenges in cloud computing business models, based on interviews with cloud security auditors. They talk about the challenges in the areas of transparency, encryption and colocation, and domain-tailored audits as an ideal solution in the new model. (Article)

Top Cloud Computing News Headlines

Gain Insight into the Performance of your Apps with Google Cloud Monitoring

Google Teams up with Rivals to Deliver Cloud Benchmarking Toolkit

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Mobile Latest Content
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Mobile Survey Q1 2015: Platform Status, Swift Adoption and Revenue
The recently published survey "State of the Developer Nation Q1 2015", conducted by VisionMobile, analyzes the key mobile developer trends including the status of mobile platforms, Swift and revenue. (News)

Top Mobile News Headlines

Creating Mobile Native Apps in JavaScript with NativeScript

Google Play Services 7 Rollout has Begun

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Process & Practices Latest Content
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Lee Cunningham on Talking to Executives About Agile
At the recent Agile Singapore conference Lee Cunningham provided advice for Agile champions on how to align Agile with the goals and priorities of senior executives, to garner their support by linking the benefits of agile adoption with the ability to address the things that keep senior leaders up at night. (Article)

Perspectives On Agile Software Testing - Book Review
On the occasion of Selenium's 10th Birthday celebration, a bunch of ThoughtWorkers have compiled an anthology of essays on testing approaches, tools and culture. This anthology of essays is available as an eBook, titled - "Perspectives on Agile Software Testing". (Article)

Q&A with Patrick Kua About Talking with Tech Leads
When developers become Tech Leads they have to find a balance between leading teams and continuing to do technical work. The book Talking with Tech Leads contains stories from Tech Leads on situations, challenges and approaches for leading teams. It explores the role and activities of technical leaders, and provides suggestions for how to deal with the responsibilities that come with technical leadership. (Article)

Designing for Human Cooperation
Attila Bujdoso presents two projects designing infrastructures for human cooperation: ‘Format’ studies cultural formats of cooperation; ‘opp.io’ is about designing a new technological protocol for collaboration. (Presentation)

Making Large-scale Agile Work for 1000+ People, 50 Teams
Alexis Hui and Raj Mudhar share the experience of a large organization that became agile, having 50 scrum teams across 5 locations and delivering an integrated product with a 2 week release cycle. (Presentation)

No Projects/Beyond Project
Allan Kelly examines the project model and shows how it fails to match software development, outlining an alternative to it and advising on what companies need to do to achieve that. (Presentation)

Impact Mapping - Making an Impact over Shipping Software
Em Campbell-Pretty overviews how to create an Impact Map, sharing real world examples of how impact mapping has helped support the delivery of software products. (Presentation)

Top Process & Practices News Headlines

How to Use Metrics to Influence an Agile Environment

Luke Hohmann on Incorporating Play into Work

Dream Job, the Vision and the Journey to the Company Culture You Want

Yuval Yeret Talks about the Synergies of Kanban and Devops

Architecture & Design Latest Content
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Asychronous Design with Spring and RTI: 1M Events per Second
Stuart Williams takes a walk through the RTI architecture and explains how Spring performs at hundreds (and millions) of events/operations per second, and the techniques to use in Spring applications to minimize resource utilization and gain performance. (Presentation)

Machine Learning for Programming
Peter Norvig keynotes on using machine learning techniques to solve more general software problems, helping both the advanced programmer and the novice one. (Presentation)

Become a Data-driven Organization with Machine Learning
Peter Harrington explains what you do with machine learning, and what the building blocks are for an application that uses machine learning from collected data to creating predictions for customers. (Presentation)

Apps + Data + Cloud: What Does It All Mean?
Matt Stine presents how to combine Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Reactor, Spring XD, and Hadoop and run them in the cloud. (Presentation)

Top Architecture & Design News Headlines

Microservices and the Goal of Software Development

Microservices and Evolutionary Architecture

An Architect's World View: A Guide to Values, Principles and Practices

Operations & Infrastructure Latest Content
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Consul: Service-oriented at Scale
Armon Dadgar presents Consul, a distributed control plane for the datacenter. Armon demonstrates how Consul can be used to build, configure, monitor, and orchestrate distributed systems. (Presentation) The next QCon is in New York, June 8-12, 2015. Join us!

Top Operations & Infrastructure News Headlines

DevOps Needed for Operating Microservices

Dave Farley on the Rationale for Continuous Delivery

DevOps at the UK Government

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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)

Enterprise Architecture Latest Content
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REST: I don't Think it Means What You Think it Does
Stefan Tilkov makes a pragmatic introduction to the basic principles of the Web's architectural approach, and takes a look at the most common misconceptions. (Presentation)