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Kwonki, in this issue, February 3, 2015 Development, Java, .NET, Dynamic Languages,Cloud Computing, Mobile, Process & Practices,Architecture & Design, Operations & Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture  SPONSOR AD FREE Book - Graph Databases, by O'Reilly Get this definitive new guide to graph databases. Written by three leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! Scaling Uber's Realtime Market Platform @QCon London Matt Ranney, Chief Systems Architect at Uber, Co-founder of Voxer will explain the Uber architecture overall, with a focus on the dispatch systems. He’ll talk about the geospatial index we built, how they handle datacenter failure, and their approach to the distributed traveling salesman problem. Join him at QCon London this March. InfoQ eMag: DevOps Toolchain for Beginners This eMag aims at providing an overview of an example set of tools that would constitute a typical 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)     Development Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/development Mike Long on Modern C++ and the C++ Memory Model Mike Long explains the new memory model in C++: why it's necessary, what it does, and who needs to know about it. Also: a look at modern C++ programming. (Interview)     Engineering the Resolution Center to Drive Success at Airbnb Alvin Sng discusses the important engineering aspects of the Resolution Center’s development. (Presentation) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us!     Top Development News Headlines AWS Release Experimental AWS SDK for the Go Programming Language Twitter Open Sources R Programming Anomaly and Breakout Detection Packages SPONSOR AD NoSQL Technical Comparison - This report compares the read and write performances of three popular NoSQL databases: Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase and provides key criteria for considering a NoSQL solution. Download Now. Java Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/java Spring 4 and Java 8 Java 8 shipped with new language features and libraries and Spring 4.x is already supporting many of these. Some of the new Java 8 features don’t have an impact on Spring and can just be used as is, while other Java 8 features require Spring to explicitly support them. This article will walk you through the new Java 8 features that are supported by Spring 4.0 and 4.1. (Article)     Ratpack Web Framework Dan Woods talks about Ratpack, an asynchronous web framework for the JVM that was inspired by the simplistic nature of Ruby's Sinatra framework. Written in Java, optimized for Groovy and Java 8, Ratpack supports a high throughput, simplistic interface for rapid development of rich, real-time web applications. (Presentation)     Testing Grails Grails comes with extensive testing support, ranging from unit to integration to functional tests. In this session, Ken Kousen demonstrates the range of options available both natively and through testing plugins. (Presentation)     Top Java News Headlines Java 8 Auto-Update, Java 7 End of Public Update Leveraging Nashorn at Netflix JHipster 2.0 Released with AngularJS Improvements, Liquibase diffs, and Spring WebSockets .NET Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/dotnet The F# Way to Relaxation Don Syme makes a journey through the modern programming landscape and the F# approach to research, language design, interoperability, tooling and community. (Presentation)     Top .NET News Headlines Microsoft Uses Cloud Platform System to Run Internal Production Workloads Looking at .NET Core on GitHub The Road to C# 7 Has Begun Microsoft Azure G-Series VMs are Generally Available Microsoft Releases Details, Confirms Rumours on Spartan Project Dynamic Languages Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/dynamic_languages Jon McKay on Building Tessel Boards and What We Can Expect from Tessel Soon The Internet of Things is right around the corner and it's very much about connected devices, sensors and gathering and leveraging data. The Tessel Board is programmable in JavaScript and makes it extremely easy to try out programming connected devices, send sensor data to the cloud or even control your elevator with a text message. And there's more to expect in the future, Jon tells us. (Interview)     Top Dynamic Languages News Headlines YouTube Switches to HTML5 Video Player Groovy 2.4 Released, Brings Full Android Support Vivaldi: A New Browser Created by Former Opera Developers Cloud Computing Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/cloud-computing Mesosphere Release Mesos-DNS Service Discovery for Apache Mesos Mesosphere have released an alpha version of Mesos-DNS, an open source service discovery framework for cloud environments running applications on the Apache Mesos cluster manager. (News)     Top Cloud Computing News Headlines Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform Amazon EC2 Gains Two-Minute Warning for Spot Instance Termination VMware Will Offer Google Cloud Services and Rackspace Offers vCloud Amazon Adds Managed Email and Calendaring Service to AWS Portfolio Google Announces General Availability of Local SSD on Compute Engine Mobile Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/mobile TestFlightApp.com is Going to Shut Down Next Month Apple announced that "services offered at TestFlightApp.com will no longer be available after February 26, 2015." The announcement contains a few important hints to help transition existing apps from TestFlightApp.com to iTunes Connect. (News)     Top Mobile News Headlines Unity Launches Analytics on iOS and Android Process & Practices Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/process-practices Evo: The Agile Value Delivery Process, Where ‘Done’ Means Real Value Delivered; Not Code Current agile practices are far too narrowly focused on delivering code to users and customers. There is no systems-wide view of other stakeholders, of databases, or anything else except the code. This article describes what ‘Evo’ is at core, and how it is different from other Agile practices, and why ‘done’ should mean ‘value delivered to stakeholders’. (Article)     How to Remain Agile When You Have to Sign a Contract Agile development based on a contract that has been accepted by lawyers seems impossible. The nature of traditional purchasing and contracting processes does not match Agile principles. This is a case study of how a supplier cooperated with a client to develop a huge project in an Agile way, by cutting it into smaller pieces and preparing a matching contract based on mutual trust. (Article)     Running an In-house Code Kata Programme - Mistakes and Successes Geoff Bones and Luke Drury share the lessons learned setting up Code Kata programmes in several companies, what has worked and hasn’t. (Presentation)     Introduction to LeSS Bas Vodde introduces Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), a framework for scaling Scrum to medium to large projects while staying true to the original Scrum principles. (Presentation)     Build a Learning Organization the Kanban Way Karl Scotland introduces the Kanban Canvas as a tool for applying Kanban Thinking in a hands-on session with participants learning how the different parts can help enable continuous improvement. (Presentation)     Workshops: The UX Designers' Trojan Horse Viviana Doctorovich explains how to use workshops to teach clients the design process using planning, design games and methods for dealing with difficult stakeholders. (Presentation)     Building Customer Focused, Inclusive Digital Services with Agile and Lean UX Kevin Murray and Imran Younis share their experience creating digital services for a number of governmental agencies using Lean UX and Agile techniques. (Presentation)     Metrics-Driven Prioritization Sam McAfee outlines an approach they are using at Neo to help their clients integrate business metrics and probabilistic modeling into their prioritization process. (Presentation) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us!     The Impact of Lean and Agile Quantified: 2014 Larry Maccherone presents the latest findings on the attempt to quantify the benefits of introducing an Agile culture and practices into an organization. (Presentation)     Top Process & Practices News Headlines How to Get a Happier Workforce Benefits of Transparency in Organizations Evidence-Based Managing of Software Development Exercises for Leading Creative Collaboration De-scaling Organizations using Scrum Agile Adoption with the Agile Fluency Model Q&A with Scott Ambler on the Disciplined Agile Enterprise Feedback Cycles in Scrum 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) Architecture & Design Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/architecture-design Evolution of the PayPal API Platform: Enabling the Future of Money Deepak Nadig discusses how PayPal’s API Platform evolved both internally and externally, the principles and patterns used, and how it is enabling the future of money. (Presentation) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us!     Web Clustering, Integration with Terracotta, BigMemory, Quartz & Grails Ryan Vanderwerf speaks about the roles of cache clustering, session clustering, and quartz clustering with open source Terracotta, Quartz, and BigMemory. (Presentation)     Designing with Sensors: Creating Adaptive Experiences Avi Itzkovitch discusses how smart devices, sensors and context aware applications can enhance the user experience with adaptability and redefine the way people use technology. (Presentation)     Top Architecture & Design News Headlines Amazon DynamoDB gets Online Indexing and Reserved Capacity Improvements Aggregates, Entities and Value Objects in Domain-Driven Design Bad Practices Building Microservices Operations & Infrastructure Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/operations-infrastructure Big Data Processing with Apache Spark – Part 1: Introduction Apache Spark is an open source big data processing framework built around speed, ease of use, and sophisticated analytics. In this article, Srini Penchikala talks about how the Apache Spark framework helps with big data processing and analytics with its standard API. He also discusses how Spark compares with traditional MapReduce implementations like Apache Hadoop. (Article)     Explore Your Data: The Fundamentals of Network Analysis Amy Heineike covers how to construct clean (and avoid hairball) networks, effective ways to analyze them, as well as open source options for visualizing and interacting with your graphs. (Presentation) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us!     Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Gradle and Jenkins Peter Niederwieser discusses building a continuous delivery pipeline using Gradle and Jenkins. (Presentation)     Top Operations & Infrastructure News Headlines FOSDEM Configuration Management: Practices for Infrastructure as Code and Puppet Modules CoreOS Shipped the First Stable Version of etcd Google Shares its Views on Containers EMRFS Brings Consistency to Amazon S3 Google Adds Private Docker Registry to Google Cloud Platform SPONSOR AD Achieving Continuous QA in DevOps. This eBook covers general best practices for a DevOps (or traditional operations) organization and how a Quality Assurance step - in conjunction with those best practices - can help catch and eliminate errors earlier. Learn More. Enterprise Architecture Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/enterprise-architect Software Security - A Study in Technology Transfer Gary McGraw keynotes on the internal forces and relationships active inside companies that drive them to success by managing to take ideas and transform them into technologies. (Presentation)     Top Enterprise Architecture News Headlines MuleSoft Announces ESB 3.6 and Anypoint Platform for Mobile A Service View of Business Driven DevOps SPONSOR AD Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 April 13-16, 2015, Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara Sessions delivered by top MySQL practitioners Oracle, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter Learn from MySQL experts

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