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Evolution of the Runtastic backend

Evolution of the Runtastic backend

February 12, 2020

Simon Lasselsberger shares diagrams that illustrate the evolution of the architecture of the eight-year-old Runtastic microservice backend.
Friction to freedom: Fueling Agile development through secure data automation

Friction to freedom: Fueling Agile development through secure data automation

February 11, 2020

Data friction was a major roadblock for Choice Hotels, preventing the company from achieving its strategic vision for growth and innovation. Propagating the right data to the right teams was a costly and inefficient process that took weeks of manual effortespecially during peak seasons. Nick Suwyn explains why and how Choice Hotels adopted a DevOps and DataOps approach to solve this issue.
Industrialize Data Science and Machine Learning

Industrialize Data Science and Machine Learning

February 11, 2020

The pace of business disruption is accelerating, meaning todays organizations need to become more data agile in order to compete and innovate. Its no secret that big data initiatives are becoming mo …
Beyond the technical: Succeed at leading a software architecture team

Beyond the technical: Succeed at leading a software architecture team

February 8, 2020

Software architects and enterprise architects work with a variety of roles, and often the deep technical work is performed by other application architects or solutions architects. Maggie Carroll shares useful skills and actionable techniques for creating a new architecture function and leading other architects in developing a system of systems.
Lightning Talk: The Art of Scaffolding

Lightning Talk: The Art of Scaffolding

February 5, 2020

"The Art of Scaffolding" refers to an approach to agile and open development. Shelley discusses fast issue response, the ability to unblock dependent teams and how to still deliver quality solutions o …
Attack trees: Security modeling for Agile teams

Attack trees: Security modeling for Agile teams

February 1, 2020

Traditional security approaches to threat and risk management are highly optimized to work within a traditional software development lifecycle. Michael Brunton-Spall shares a new approach to reviewing systems along with real-life examples to help you prioritize where to focus security efforts and what sorts of security threats you should worry about.
Agile for data science teams

Agile for data science teams

January 26, 2020

Agile methodologies have been widely successful for software engineering teams but seem inappropriate for data science teams, because data science is part engineering, part research. Jennifer Prendki demonstrates how, with a minimum amount of tweaking, data science managers can adapt Agile techniques and establish best practices to make their teams more efficient.
Edgility - Modelling and Orchestration in Edge Cloud Environments

Edgility - Modelling and Orchestration in Edge Cloud Environments

January 22, 2020

Edge computing is becoming the major component in 5G networks. While edge computing provides an u-low-latency solution, it brings with it other challenges. On one hand, edge clouds are small, and thei …
From theory to data product: Applying data science methods to effect business change

From theory to data product: Applying data science methods to effect business change

January 22, 2020

Janet Forbes, Danielle Leighton, and Lindsay Brin lead a primer on crafting well-conceived data science projects that uncover valuable business insights. Using case studies and hands-on skills development, Janet, Danielle, and Lindsay walk you through essential techniques for effecting real business change.
Progress for big data in Kubernetes

Progress for big data in Kubernetes

January 19, 2020

Stateful containers are a well-known anti-pattern, but the standard solutionmanaging state in a separate storage tieris costly and complex. Recent developments have changed things dramatically for the better. In particular, you can now manage a high-performance software-defined-storage tier entirely in Kubernetes. Ted Dunning describes what's new and how it makes big data easier on Kubernetes.
A New Software Engineering Methodology for Creating Resilient Microservices

A New Software Engineering Methodology for Creating Resilient Microservices

January 15, 2020

Worldwide business houses are increasingly mandated to be agile and reliable in their operations, offerings and outputs. As IT is the greatest enabler of businesses, IT professionals and professors ac …
MEF 3.0 Agile, Assured, and Orchestrated Communication Services Across Multi-Providers Automated Networks Using ONAP

MEF 3.0 Agile, Assured, and Orchestrated Communication Services Across Multi-Providers Automated Networks Using ONAP

January 13, 2020

In November 2017, MEF introduced MEF 3.0, a transformational framework for defining, delivering, and certifying agile, assured, and orchestrated communication services across a global ecosystem of aut …
Connecting and Testing Virtual Network Topologies on Kubernetes

Connecting and Testing Virtual Network Topologies on Kubernetes

January 5, 2020

Today's complex, agile networking setups demand the same CI/CD and automated testing support as user-facing applications have. But you can't simulate an entire networking topology with Kubernetes. Or …
Load testing reinvented for DevOps (sponsored by Tricentis)

Load testing reinvented for DevOps (sponsored by Tricentis)

December 21, 2019

Tim Koopmans explains how load testing is being reinvented for DevOps, covering where traditional load testing approaches fall short for Agile and DevOps, whats needed to rapidly expose performance issues before they impact users, and new approaches to making load testing faster, simpler, and more realistic.
Netra Q&A: Scaling resource-intensive APIs (sponsored by Oracle + Dyn)

Netra Q&A: Scaling resource-intensive APIs (sponsored by Oracle + Dyn)

December 20, 2019

Kyle York and Richard Lee explore Netras high-performance computing environment, focusing on how the company's AI and deep learning models process tens of millions of images and videos each day in a time- and cost-effective manner. Along the way, they explain what worked, what didn't, and why you need an Agile, hybrid infrastructure if you want to build an AI business at the scale of social.
The Enterprises New Shoes - The Journey of Adidas to a Global Kubernetes Rollout -

The Enterprises New Shoes - The Journey of Adidas to a Global Kubernetes Rollout -

December 7, 2019

adidas move to cloud native technologies and specifically Kubernetes started already in late 2015. This move came as the result of a general shift towards Microservices and agile software development …
Clusters as Cattle: How to Seamlessly Migrate Apps across Kubernetes Clusters

Clusters as Cattle: How to Seamlessly Migrate Apps across Kubernetes Clusters

November 23, 2019

Before the arrival of Cloud Native, IT departments frequently treated each component–a service/application, a virtual machine, or a bare metal server–as a special, fragile entity that required the u …
Agile Product Roadmaps for Software Architecture

Agile Product Roadmaps for Software Architecture

November 18, 2019

Software architecture can be beautiful, but business and engineering reality is often inconvenient and messy. James Siddle explains how living product roadmaps help you deal with reality without compromising your architecture vision. Youll learn Agile roadmapping techniques and how to engage with stakeholders to move toward your architecture goals while avoiding wasteful endeavors.
Apache Kafka + Apache Mesos = Highly scalable streaming microservices

Apache Kafka + Apache Mesos = Highly scalable streaming microservices

November 18, 2019

Kai Whner shares a highly scalable, mission-critical infrastructure using Apache Kafka and Apache Mesos: Kafka brokers are used as the distributed messaging backbone; Kafkas Streams API embeds stream processing into any external application without the need for a dedicated streaming cluster; and Mesos is used as a scalable infrastructure to leverage the benefits of a cloud-native platform.
Building a PaaS for Robotics with Kubernetes

Building a PaaS for Robotics with Kubernetes

November 18, 2019

Building a real-world robot enabled solution is challenging. Access to limitless compute and storage facilitates smarter, cheaper, and agile robots. Cloud robotics has different considerations than a …