AI in Hedge Funds, IoT Security, WebStorm, Android O, In Defence of the Monolith, FaunaDB, Terraform 0.9, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

In this issue, March 28, 2017 [View it in your browser.]( [AI in Hedge Funds](#Hedge), [IoT Security](#IoTSecurity), [WebStorm](#WebStorm), [Android O](#AndroidO), [In Defence of the Monolith](#Monolith), [FaunaDB](#FaunaDB), [Terraform 0.9](#Terraform09), [Cloud Native Computing Foundation](#Native) [What Google Learned about Creating Effective Teams @QCon New York]( Over the years, researchers have conducted numerous studies on team dynamics. At Google, the People Analytics sought to identify those attributes that set effective teams apart from ineffective ones ... and they made some surprising discoveries... Join [Matt Sakaguchi, Site Reliability Manager @Google]( to find out how he has worked with his own team and others, to instill the findings and principles in the real world.  SPONSOR AD [RMC_ad_img]( [PMI-ACP® Exam Prep, Second Edition]( is written for people who plan to sit for the PMI-ACP® examination. Features include over 100 practice exam questions. [Sale Price: $69.30]( [( [] [Eric Horesnyi on High Frequency Trading and How Hedge Funds are Applying Deep Learning to Markets]( Eric Horesnyi, CEO @streamdata.io, talks to Charles Humble about how hedge funds are applying deep learning as an alternative to the raw speed favoured by HFT to try and curve the market. (Podcast) [( [] [Kaila Colbin on the Nature of Technological Innovation and the Implications for Society]( In this podcast, recorded at the Agile New Zealand conference, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kaila Colbin from the Ministry of Awesome and Singularity University about the Nature of Technological Innovation and the Implications for Society. (Podcast) Data Science Latest Content [infoq.com/data-science]( TOP Data Science NEWS HEADLINES - [] [FaunaDB: A New Temporal, Objectual, Distributed Database from the Team That Scaled Twitter]( - [] [Netflix Demonstrates Big Data Analytics Infrastructure]( - [] [Yahoo Open Sources TensorFlowOnSpark]( [] [There Is No AI without IA]( Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly hyped by everyone from well-funded startups to well-known software brands. In this article the author describes the need for high-quality, structured data before AI technologies can be of use to organizations and their customers. (Article) [] [Building a Data Science Capability from Scratch]( Victor Hu covers the challenges, both technical and cultural, of building a data science team and capability in a large, global company. He discusses best practices, lessons learned, and rewards of leveraging data effectively in the next frontier of data science: commercial insurance. (Presentation) The next QCon is in [New York, June 26-30, 2017](. Join us! [] [Data Cleansing and Understanding Best Practices]( Casey Stella talks about discovering missing values, values with skewed distributions and discovering likely errors within data, as well as a novel approach to finding data interconnectedness based on usage using unsupervised learning. He describes the impact of these lessons on team construction and how to avoid some of the most painful lessons. (Presentation) The next QCon is in [New York, June 26-30, 2017](. Join us! [] [Predictability in ML Applications]( Claudia Perlich presents a number of scenarios in which the combination of different and highly informative features can have significantly negative overall impact on the usefulness of predictive modeling. (Presentation) The next QCon is in [New York, June 26-30, 2017](. Join us! [] [SQL Server on Linux: Will it Perform or Not?]( Slava Oks talks about SQL Server's platform agnostic architecture. Oks briefly goes over the history of the project and high-level architecture, and dives into the core of I/O Manager, Memory Manager, and Scheduler. Every topic includes lessons learned and experiences behind the scenes. (Presentation) The next QCon is in [New York, June 26-30, 2017](. Join us! [] [Stream Processing & Analytics with Flink @Uber]( Danny Yuan discusses how Uber builds its next generation of stream processing system to support real-time analytics as well as complex event processing. He focuses on Uber's stream processing systems that supports many types of real-time analysis and forecasting of geospatial time series, as well as discovery and extracting interesting patterns from data streams. (Presentation) The next QCon is in [New York, June 26-30, 2017](. Join us! [] [Demistifying DynamoDB Streams]( Akshat Vig and Khawaja Shams discuss DynamoDB Streams and what it takes to build an ordered, highly available, durable, performant, and scalable replicated log stream. They explain how event processing systems work and how one can use them to simplify development of a complex distributed system. (Presentation) The next QCon is in [New York, June 26-30, 2017](. Join us! SPONSOR AD [Exaptive_ad_img]( [Have some data and need to build an application with it?]( The Exaptive Studio makes it possible to build full-stack data applications for the web without being a full-stack web developer. Build faster and more creatively. Work with the technology you know. Rely on the platform for the other stuff and the glue code. [Learn more, and try the community edition.]( DevOps Latest Content [infoq.com/devops]( TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Adds Linkerd, gRPC, and CoreDNS to Growing Portfolio]( - [] [Platform9 Introduces 'Kube2Go' Alongside Managed Kubernetes and 'Fission' Serverless Framework]( - [] [HashiCorp Terraform 0.9. Released with State Locking, State Environments, and Destroy Provisioners]( - [] [HelloFresh's Migration to a New API Gateway to Enable Microservices]( - [] [NGINX Plus R12 Brings Master-Peer Configuration Sharing, Improved Scripting, and More]( [] [The Divisive Effect of Separate Issue Tracking Tools]( Separate issue tracking systems for Development and IT Operations are a source of conflict and ineffectiveness for many organizations. For effective Database Lifecycle Management (DLM), we typically need shared issue tracking systems where DBA teams can see upcoming work from Development and Development teams can see details of live service issues logged from Production. (Article) SPONSOR AD [Evident_ad_img]( [Top 10 AWS Cloud Security Risks.]( Here are the top 10 risks that show up in AWS. Are you making those same mistakes? We bet your are. [Download Now.]( Culture & Methods Latest Content [infoq.com/culture-methods]( TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Agile is King, But Continuous Integration is an Elusive Goal]( - [] [Applying Hoshin Kanri at Toyota]( - [] [Devoxx US 2017: Day 1 Recap]( - [] [Lean and Agile Culture at the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle]( - [] [3 Years of the Merit Money System, a Revolution on the Recognition Methods Proposed by Cláudio Pires]( [] [Book Q&A on Product Mastery]( The best product owners are insatiably curious about their customers; they observe them in action, interview them, and collaborate with them and bring them into the development process, said Geoff Watts. In his new book Product Mastery he explores what he calls “the difference between good and great product ownership”. (Article) [] [Agile Scaling in Action]( The biggest reason for adopting agile at scale is that despite the fantasy that a collection of agile teams will somehow organically integrate to deploy a program, that is not the reality. That’s why for larger dev/test outfits or projects, companies sometimes roll up individual agile teams into one agile environment at enterprise scale. Yousef Awad presents lessons learned and words to the wise. (Article) [] [Why Too Much Choice Is Killing Your Company]( Edward Scotcher looks at the science of the choices people make and how to avoid the politics and power games that get in the way of ideas realization. (Presentation) [] [Enabling Awesome Engineering Teams]( Alexandre Freire discusses what his team has learned through experiments, from the very fundamentals of what a team needs to be successful, like core protocols, the responsibility principle and psychological safety, to Modern Agile engineering techniques, like continuous deployment and mob programming, that lay the groundwork for creating a space where being awesome becomes inevitable. (Presentation) The next QCon is in [New York, June 26-30, 2017](. Join us! [] [Structuring Your Business for Agility]( Phil Abernathy discusses why Agile practices are not enough, detailing why and how to restructure an organization to make it successful. (Presentation) Java Latest Content [infoq.com/java]( [] [Vaadin Releases Version 8 of Their Polyglot Framework]( Four years since the release of version 7, Vaadin released version 8 of their polyglot framework that features 21 improvements in areas of typesafe APIs and performance. (News) SPONSOR AD [AppDynamics_ad_img]( [This is How Amazon's Servers Rarely Go Down [Infographic].]( Here’s how to architect an application to isolate failure, recover rapidly from downtime, and scale in the face of heavy load. [Learn more.]( Development Latest Content [infoq.com/development]( TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES - [] [GitHub Steps Up to Recognizing Developers' Creative Rights]( - [] [W3C Web of Things Working Group Begins Work]( [] [Security War Stories: The Battle for the Internet of Things]( Alasdair Allan focuses on the sort of security problems people face when building Internet of Things devices, and the underlying differences between the Internet of Things and the digital Internet that drive those security issues. (Presentation) The next QCon is in [New York, June 26-30, 2017](. Join us! SPONSOR AD [Compose_ad_img]( [Try a Database on Compose,]( [Get a FREE Limited Edition T-shirt.]( *No purchase necessary Mobile Latest Content [infoq.com/mobile]( [] [Android O: Notification Channels, Background Limits, PIP and More]( Google has made available the Android O Preview to developers, admonishing them to test their applications on the new OS to be ready when this version of Android becomes publicly available. New in Android O: More Background limits, Notification channels, Picture-in-picture, Autofill, Adaptive icons, and API changes, among others. (News) Dynamic Languages Latest Content [infoq.com/dynamic_languages]( [] [WebStorm 2017.1 Adds Vue.js Support]( WebStorm 2017.1 keeps the IDE topped off with the latest JavaScript features including support for Vue.js, Jest, Angular Language Service, StandardJS and emojis. (News) SPONSOR AD [GridGain_ad_img]( [An In-Memory Backbone for Microservices-Based Architectures]( - This webinar discusses how in-memory computing using Apache Ignite can overcome the performance limitations common to microservices architectures built using traditional database architectures. [Register Now.]( .NET Latest Content [infoq.com/dotnet]( TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Developing for the Microsoft Surface Hub]( [] [Windows 10 Developers Encouraged to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017]( Following the formal release of Visual Studio 2017, Microsoft is strongly encouraging developers to upgrade to its latest development environment. Yet while the Creators Update SDK now requires VS2017, some Windows 10 development workloads still require VS2015. (News) Architecture & Design Latest Content [infoq.com/architecture-design]( TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Building a Bank with Golang, Microservices and Containers: Matt Heath at QCon London]( [] [In Defence of the Monolith, Part 2]( In the age of microservices, "monolith" has become a dirty word. Yet, monoliths, designed with an emphasis on modularity, can be a better solution for complex domains, such as enterprise applications. The second part of this 2-part series covers a practical approach to creating a successful, modular monolith. (Article) SPONSOR AD [NGINX_ad_img]( [Free Microservices Reference Architecture.]( Learn how to connect, secure and scale microservices in this exclusive ebook by NGINX Chief Architect of Microservices. [Download this Practical Guide to Microservices.]( [] [Pricing Page Optimization]( Elena Verna discusses user behavior on the pricing page and how to organize the A/B testing resources to optimize the pricing page, one of the most important funnels of a website. (Presentation) [] [How to Design and Develop in an Inclusive Way]( Molly Watt and Chris Bush discuss designing for people with specific visual, auditory, cognitive and mobility needs, accessibility features and challenges for certain users engaging digital services. (Presentation) The next QCon is in [New York, June 26-30, 2017](. Join us! [] [Freeing the Whale: How to Fail at Scale]( Oliver Gould discusses Finagle, a library providing a uniform model for handling failure at the communications layer, enabling Twitter to fail, safely and often. (Presentation) The next QCon is in [New York, June 26-30, 2017](. Join us! 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