State of Chaos Engineering, Azure Quantum, Netflix GraphQL, Dapr 1.0, The Toyota Way

In this issue, February 23, 2021 [View it in your browser.]( [Google NLP](#NLP), [State of Chaos Engineering](#Chaos), [Tsunami](#Tsunami), [Azure Quantum](#Azure), [Love Letter to Clojure](#Love), [Netflix GraphQL](#Netflix), [JavaScript Performance](#JS), [Banuba Face AR SDK](#Banuba), [Dapr 1.0](#Dapr), [The Toyota Way](#Toyota) [Stay ahead of the adoption curve. Discover emerging trends and innovations at QCon Plus.]( [QCon Plus]( (May 17-28) features 16 tracks across 2 weeks curated by domain experts to focus on the topics that matter right now in software. WebAssembly, Software Architecture, Java 15, Monolith, Redux, ML/AI, Remote Teams are just some of these topics. [Discover the rest](. Take advantage of the early bird and [save $150 before March 6th](. Â SPONSOR AD [Tigergraph]( [Designing and Implementing an Integrated Identity Strategy]( What are the options when it comes to identity and should you build, or buy? Join this webinar to learn techniques for reducing registration abandonment and user friction, how to mitigate risks associated with application and user migration, and best practices for integrating existing identity and business data sources. Live Webinar, March 4th, 2021 - [Save your seat](. [( [] [Carin Meier Using Machine Learning to Combat Major Illnesses, Such as the Coronavirus]( Carin Meier of Reify Health sits down with Wesley Reisz and discusses how machine learning is being used to combat major illnesses (such as the coronavirus). After a short discussion on some of the work being done today, the two shift into a discussion on the challenges of working with healthcare data and machine learning. Topics around safety, ethics, and explainability are discussed. (Podcast) [( [] [Allan Kelly on Continuous Digital, #NoProjects, Minimally Viable Teams and OKRs]( In this podcast recorded at the Agile on the Beach (New Zealand) conference, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Allan Kelly about his book, Continuous Digital, #NoProjects, Minimally Viable Teams and OKRs. (Podcast) [AI, ML & Data Engineering Latest Content]( TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer]( [] [The Future of Data Engineering]( Chris Riccomini examines the current and future states of the art in data pipelines, data streaming, and data warehousing. He presents a six-stage evolution that data ecosystems follow, from a simple monolith to a complex data-microwarehouse architecture as the data engineers who manage them solve problems and clarify their roles as infrastructure engineers, rather than data stewards. (Article) SPONSOR AD [Tigergraph]( [Hands-on Workshop: Accelerating Machine Learning with Graph Algorithms]( Learn how to perform unsupervised learning as well as feature extraction and graph enrichment for supervised learning with a graph database in 90 minutes. [Register now](. [DevOps Latest Content]( TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES - [] [AWS Outposts Now Supports Amazon Elastic Block Store Local Snapshots]( - [] [Amazon Announces New Bare Metal EC2 Instances]( - [] [Lightstep Connects Tracing and Metrics with New Change Intelligence Feature]( - [] [Gremlin Releases State of Chaos Engineering 2021 Report]( - [] [Amazon Introduces CloudFront Security Savings Bundle]( [] [Amplify Flutter Brings Together Flutter and AWS for Cross-Platform Apps]( Amplify Flutter aims to simplify the creation of cross-platform apps for iOS, Android, and the Web using Google Flutter UI toolkit and AWS. Announced as a developer preview last August, Amplify Flutter is now generally available and includes new Data, API, and Auth capabilities. (News) SPONSOR AD [CockroachLabs]( [Webinar: How DoorDash builds future-proof, scale-out systems]( Demand for DoorDash has grown and added strain to their applications and database. Join Sean C, Software Engineer at DoorDash, to talk about their use of CockroachDB. [Register now](. [Development Latest Content]( TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Microsoft Satin Audio Codec Uses AI to Outperform Skype Silk]( - [] [Google Extends Tsunami Security Scanner's Capabilities]( - [] [Microsoft Opens up Its Azure Quantum Platform for Public Preview]( - [] [Filecoin Aims to Use Blockchain to Make Decentralized Storage Resilient and Hard to Censor]( [] [Improving the Performance of a Route Editor Using a Quadtree]( A quadtree is a tree data structure that allows the user to partition a two-dimensional space and to quickly find the intersection of objects. In this article we show how we used it to improve the performance of our route editor. (Article) [] [Boosting WebAssembly Performance with SIMD and Multi-Threading]( Early implementations of WebAssembly's SIMD and multi-threading proposals show that WebAssembly is narrowing the gap with native performance, by using SIMD instructions and multicore CPUs. Significant performance improvements have been observed in compute-intensive tasks (machine-learning, bio-informatics, scientific computing). (Article) [] [A Love Letter to Clojure]( Gene Kim discusses his endeavour as a developer through Clojure. (Presentation with transcript included) Level-up on the practices, patterns, and skills most in-demand in software right now. Attend [QCon Plus (May 10 - 28, 2021)](. SPONSOR AD [LaunchDarkly]( [Progressive Delivery: the Next Iteration of Continuous Delivery]( Learn how Progressive Delivery can help you deploy faster, iterate more extensively, and reduce risk when shipping code. Control who sees which features - and when - while taking the stress out of your releases for good. [Download the Book](. [Java Latest Content]( TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Java News Roundup - Week of Feb 8th, 2021]( [] [Netflix Open Sources Their Domain Graph Service Framework: GraphQL for Spring Boot]( Within a few months of implementing their Domain Graph Service Framework (DGS), Netflix has open-sourced DGS to the Java community. This framework improves the usage of GraphQL for standalone and federated GraphQL services. InfoQ spoke to Paul Bakker, senior software engineer at Netflix and committer for DGS, about open-sourcing the DGS framework. (News) SPONSOR AD [Undo]( [[Webinar] The State of Debugging Java]( A panel of Java Champions & experts will be discussing advanced tools & techniques for debugging Java & how to stop test failures from blocking your CI/CD pipeline. [Join this Tech Talk](! [Web Development Latest Content]( TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES - [] [How Using Modern JavaScript May Improve Performance]( - [] [Testing Asynchronous Code - RxJS Live London]( [] [Serverless React Applications with AWS Lambda]( Roman Boiko, solutions architect at AWS, recently published three scenarios to deploy a React application in the cloud or at the edge making use of Amazon Web Services. The scenarios use Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Lambda@Edge for a fully serverless implementation. (News) SPONSOR AD [MongoDB]( [The Object Oriented Guide to Microservices & Serverless Architecture]( Through the lens of Object Oriented Design, serverless is the solution to ever-shrinking service. [Download the white paper to learn why](. [Mobile and IoT Latest Content]( TOP Mobile NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Microsoft Announces Azure IoT Edge Modules for Linux on Windows in Public Preview]( [] [Creating an Android Face Filter App Using Banuba Face AR SDK]( This article is going to provide a step-by-step guide on how to create an Android face filter app using Banuba Face AR SDK. We will also discuss how face filters work and the advantages of using Banuba Face Filter Catalogue for implementing face filters in your app. (Article) [Architecture & Design Latest Content]( TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) v1.0 Announced]( [] [Software Systems Need Skin in the Game]( Consequential decisions need to be taken by the people who pay for the consequences, by the people with skin in the game, and modern software practices need to reinforce this idea. On-call engineering is the quintessential modern engineering practice to create skin in the software development game. (Article) [] [Microservices from the Trenches: Lessons, Benefits, Challenges, and Mistakes]( Nicky Wrightson, from Skyscanner, hosted a panel at QCon London with participants who have moved from the monolith to microservices and in some cases back again. They share their experience with microservices on production, and also strong opinions on monorepos, on operating distributed systems, and on the best way to structure an organization to make a success of this architecture. (Article) SPONSOR AD [VMware]( [10 Examples of Smarter Monitoring Alerts]( Read real examples of how some of the largest and most successful SaaS and digital enterprise companies worldwide implement their monitoring and automation policies. You'll also learn how to use smarter alerts to lower mean time to identify and mean time to automate. [Download now](. [Culture & Methods Latest Content]( TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Characteristics of Agile Leaders]( [] [The Toyota Way: Learn to Improve Continuously]( The book The Toyota Way, 2nd Edition by Jeffrey Liker provides a view of the Toyota Production System with fourteen management principles for continuous improvement and developing people. The book, including the 4P model (Philosophy, Processes, People, Problem solving) and principles, has been updated to reflect new insights in systems thinking. (Article) [] [Mastering Virtual Communication]( Anne Ricketts focuses on how to take virtual meetings and presentations to the next level, emphasizing connection, brevity, and participation. (Presentation with transcript included) [] [Creating Stability in Uncertain Times]( Sarah Shewell covers strategies for new scheduling demands and performance management. 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