Chaos Conf Q&A, Debugging Microservices with Google SREs, Firefox Blocking Web Trackers by Default, Eric Evans Says DDD Isn't Done, Ethical Design

In this issue, September 18, 2018 [View it in your browser.]( [Chaos Conf Q&A](#Chaos), [Debugging Microservices with Google SREs](#Google), [Firefox Blocking Web Trackers by Default](#Firefox), [Eric Evans Says DDD Isn't Done](#Eric), [Ethical Design](#Design) [Announcing QCon London 2019 Proposed Tracks!]( A track is a curated day of talks around an important topic in software. QCon London offers 18 technical tracks and at least three sponsored tracks. You can find the 2019 proposed editorial tracks [here](. [Register]( for QCon London 2019 before Oct 27th and save up to £580!  SPONSOR AD [AppDynamics_ad_img]( [10 Essential Skills of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).]( Although performance and reliability are top priorities, IT Ops teams struggle to keep up with the complexity and scale of modern applications. Enter the rise of the SRE. Download the eBook now to see the top 10 skills and qualities you should expect from an SRE. [Download now](. [( [] [Practical Guide to Building an API Back End with Spring Boot]( Starting your first project with Spring Boot can be a bit 
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 (Mini Book) [( [] [Vaughn Vernon on Developing a Domain Driven Design First Actor-Based Microservices Framework]( Vaughn Vernon has recently released a new open source project called vlingo. The platform is designed to support DDD at the framework and toolkit level. On today’s podcast, Vernon discusses what the framework is all about, why he felt it was needed, and some of the design decisions made in developing the platform. (Podcast) [( [] [John Le Drew on Solving Technical Problems by Addressing Human Issues]( In this podcast recorded at the Agile India conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to John Le Drew about solving technical problems by addressing the people issues. (Podcast) [AI, ML & Data Engineering Latest Content]( [] [14 Things I Wish I’d Known When Starting with MongoDB]( I’ve been a database person for an embarrassing length of time, but I only started working with MongoDB recently. When I was starting out with MongoDB, there are a few things that I wish I’d known about. With general experience, there will always be preconceptions of what databases are and what they do. In hopes of making it easier for other people, here is a list of common mistakes. (Article) [] [Ethical Design]( Harry Trimble discusses creating data services that are simple and effective, explaining how user’s data is used, how automated decisions are made, respecting human’s rights. (Presentation) [] [See what’s new in DevOps on InfoQ, including:]( - Debugging Microservices: How Google SREs Resolve Outages - Chaos Engineering: Building Immunity in Production Systems - Running AWS Lambda Functions on CloudFront with Lambda@Edge - [And more](... [DevOps Latest Content]( TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Microsoft Pushes New Azure Offerings into the High-Performance Computing Market]( - [] [Data Artisans Announces Serializable ACID Transactions on Streaming Data]( - [] [Pinterest Switches from OpenTSDB to Their Own Time Series Database]( - [] [eBay Replatforming to Kubernetes, Envoy and Kafka: Intending to Open Source Hardware and Software]( [] [Chaos Conf Q&A: The Benefits, Challenges and Practices of Chaos Engineering]( This Q&A, from the upcoming Chaos Conf event that is running in San Francisco in September, examines the benefits and challenges of chaos engineering. The article also provides emerging good practice, and contains prerequisites, recommendations, and tips for getting started. (Article) [] [CI/CD/CS: Implementing Continuous Security across Your Delivery Pipeline and at Run-Time]( Jorge Salamero Sanz discusses use case examples on how to make a CI/CD pipeline interact with Docker security tools, and how to prepare for policy violations that happen at runtime. (Presentation) [] [Debugging Microservices: How Google SREs Resolve Outages]( Adam Mckaig and Liz Fong-Jones talk about how SREs discover and debug problems at Google during outages, and share real stories about their experiences. (Presentation) The next QCon is [QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018](. Join us! SPONSOR AD [Site24x7_ad_img]( [Track REST API Performance and Availability.]( Monitor the availability and response time of your REST API endpoints from 90+ locations globally. Get insight into the response time of mobile and web apps that use your APIs as a daily driver. Detect downtime and fix critical issues before customers are affected. [Learn more about Site24x7](. [Development Latest Content]( TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Git 2.19 Improves Diff, Branch, Grep, and More]( - [] [Checked C Extends LLVM to Bring Spatial Memory Safety to C]( - [] [Intelligent Automation on Pace for Explosive Growth, But Organizational Challenges Prevalent]( [] [What Is Programming Anyway?]( Felienne Hermans discusses her research on programming for children, as well as her quest to make programming education for everyone. (Presentation) [Java Latest Content]( [] [Pivotal Releases Spring Cloud Data Version 1.6 Featuring a New App Hosting Tool]( Pivotal has released version 1.6 of Spring Cloud Data Flow, a project for building and orchestrating real-time data processing pipelines to runtimes such as the Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Kubernetes and Mesos. New features include an app hosting tool, a scheduler for PCF, and an app repository. Mark Pollack, senior staff engineer at Pivotal, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release. (News) SPONSOR AD [RedHat_ad_img]( [Istio Service Mesh for Microservices (By O’Reilly)]( Learn how Istio improves service resiliency, testing, observability, and security of your microservices. Authors Christian Posta and Burr Sutter also introduce you to several key capabilities Istio provides on Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. [Download Now](. [.NET Latest Content]( TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Visual Studio 2017 15.9 Previews Expanded C++ Debugging]( [] [Modern Day C# Development in Visual Studio 2017]( Kevin Pilch discusses improvements in VS 2017: performance improvements in startup and solution load, editing, code style, quick fixes, refactorings, unit testing, debugging, deployment, and more. (Presentation) [Dynamic Languages Latest Content]( [] [Mozilla Firefox Will Block Web Trackers by Default]( Mozilla recently announced that Firefox will block web trackers by default in a near future. Mozilla plans to releases a series of features through three key initiatives, including improving page load performance, removing cross-site tracking, and mitigating harmful practices. (News) [Mobile and IoT Latest Content]( [] [Mozilla Pushes WebXR as New Open Web API for Augmented Reality]( After adding support for WebVR to Firefox, Mozilla is now working on a new API, called WebXR, to bring mixed reality to the Web. Initially announced last year, WebXR aims to replace WebVR in time and to offer a smooth transition for developers using WebVR. (News) [Architecture & Design Latest Content]( TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Eric Evans Says DDD Isn't Done]( - [] [How to Achieve a Resilient Architecture]( [] [How the TOGAF Standard Serves Enterprise Architecture]( Any architect working with large enterprise systems has probably looked for guidance on how to manage the complexity and communicate with various stakeholders. This introductory overview of the TOGAF standard explains the structure of the framework, as well as discusses the benefits of using enterprise architecture to manage complex systems. (Article) [] [Complex Event Flows in Distributed Systems]( Bernd Ruecker demonstrates how the new generation of lightweight and highly-scalable state machines ease the implementation of long running services. He shares how to handle complex logic and flows which require proper reactions on failures, timeouts and compensating actions and provides guidance backed by code examples to illustrate alternative approaches. (Presentation) The next QCon is [QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018](. Join us! [] [Designing Events-First Microservices]( Jonas Bonér explores the nature of events, what it means to be event-driven, and how to unleash the power of events and commands by applying an events-first domain-driven design to microservices-based architectures. (Presentation) The next QCon is [QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018](. Join us! [] [No Microservice Is an Island]( Michele Titolo talks about the basic infrastructure and tooling needs for microservices to be successful. (Presentation) The next QCon is [QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018](. Join us! [] [Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way]( Michael Bryzek highlights specific key decisions that very directly impact the quality and maintainability of a microservice architecture, covering infrastructure, continuous deployment, communication, event streaming, language choice and more, all to ensure that teams and systems remain productive and scale. (Presentation) The next QCon is [QCon San Francisco, November 5-7, 2018](. Join us! [] [See what’s new in Streaming Processing on InfoQ, including:]( - How to Choose a Stream Processor for your App - Democratizing Stream Processing with #ApacheKafka and KSQL - The Fundamentals of Stream Processing with the Dataflow Model and Apache Beam - [And more](... SPONSOR AD [NGINX_ad_img]( [The Kubernetes Cookbook (By O’Reilly)]( Learn how to use Kubernetes for container orchestration with this excerpt that covers easy‑to‑use Kubernetes tutorials for installation, API access, scaling, troubleshooting, and more. [Free eBook Download](. [Culture & Methods Latest Content]( TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Compliance in an Agile World]( - [] [Strategic Partnership between Atlassian and Slack]( - [] [Leading within: Evolving into Agility]( - [] [How to Work Effectively with Agile in a Remote Team: Trust, Accountability and Communication]( [] [Q&A on the Book Emotional Science]( The book Emotional Science by Michael K Sahota and Audree Tara Sahota provides an understanding of emotions, which, as stated by the authors, goes beyond current models in psychology. The book provides exercises that can be used to become aware of emotions and learn how to deal with them, which is a practical way of increasing your Emotional Intelligence. (Article) [] [Are You the Barrier to Innovation?]( You've adopted technologies like SOA and microservices to keep your infrastructure future-proof. So why do you still struggle to innovate? It's not your technology - it's your culture. 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(Article) [] [Unlearning: The Challenge of Change]( Jessie Shternshus shares learnings and unlearnings from her own career, stories from the companies she has worked with, and the techniques she teaches in order to make breakthroughs and forge ahead. (Presentation) [] [Getting Them to Get It: Communicating beyond the Agile Bubble]( Judy Rees discusses building trust, developing psychological safety, reducing conflict and misunderstandings while maintaining creative tension, and leading listeners in a practical session. 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