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Mapping the Value Storm

—A hasty post, based on a couple of tweets, and a short conversation at #SFAgile2012. 1. Streams are uni-directional, they don’t have feedback....

0 replies - 1108 views - 04/07/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles

For Programs, Short is Beautiful

At my Agile 2012 presentation last year, I got to say, “Short is beautiful.” For those of you who have never seen me, I’m five feet tall. The question...

0 replies - 2490 views - 04/06/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Mobilecast: Health, Fitness, and Wearable Computing

Your browser does not support the audio element. Download the MP3 Date: March 29, 2013 By: Brian Katz Description: Brian has a...

0 replies - 2779 views - 04/06/13 by Brian Gracely in Articles

How Do You Measure DevOps?

If you’re trying to convince yourself (or the team or management) that your operations program needs to be changed for the better, and that trying a Devops...

0 replies - 2840 views - 04/05/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

Let’s Get Real: How Do You Monetize Big Data?

I had the great pleasure of hearing GoodData founder Roman Stanek speak at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara this afternoon. GoodData is just...

0 replies - 377 views - 04/04/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Tale of a Yo-Yo Manager

There is much more to empowering a team than simply stating “You’re empowered.” Consider the three Ws of empowerment: “what,” “when,” and...

0 replies - 1364 views - 04/04/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Apple Can't Obey Its Own Specifications

I’ve been playing around with a basic implementation of HLS the last few days, and despite it being a proprietary streaming transport there is...

0 replies - 4037 views - 04/04/13 by Oliver Hookins in Articles

War Games, Pair Testing and Other Fun Ways to Find Bugs

I've already examined how important good testing is to the health of a project, a product and an organization. There’s a lot more to good testing...

0 replies - 3640 views - 04/04/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

5 Ways to Implement HTTPS in an Insufficient Manner (and Leak Sensitive Data)

HTTPS or SSL or TLS or whatever you want to call it can be a confusing beast. Some say it’s just about protecting your password and banking info whilst the...

0 replies - 2835 views - 04/04/13 by Troy Hunt in Articles

Background of Collaborative Filtering with Mahout

In order to set up Apache Mahout, a library written in Java to perform scalable machine learning algorithms based on Hadoop, in the architecture of...

0 replies - 2788 views - 04/04/13 by Daniel Bartl in Articles

Augmenting 3rd-Party Libraries

For every project I’ve participated in, there has been a need for augmenting some third-party library. There are a few of reasons for this: There’s a...

0 replies - 1460 views - 04/04/13 by Bozhidar Bozhanov in Articles

First Sight With Java 8 Lambda Expressions with Examples

The intent of this Online Tutorial on Java is to give a high level overview of the upcoming Lambda Project, which is being developed...

0 replies - 3266 views - 04/04/13 by Amit Phaltankar in Articles

TDD as Scientific Method?

Certainly I’m not the first to notice the similarity between Test Driven Development and the Scientific Method? Answering my question: nope! Looks like a...

0 replies - 1236 views - 04/04/13 by Mike Christianson in Articles

Like Silicon Valley Only Better

I’m in Durham, North Carolina this morning, part of  Research Triangle. Last night I spoke at a Research Triangle Analysts meeting and this...

0 replies - 959 views - 04/03/13 by John Cook in Articles

The Ship Show: Automate Everything in 48 Hours or Your Pizza is Free

Imagine waking up to find your site and service hacked. Everyone is running around, trying to find out what went wrong; you’re tasked with repairing the...

0 replies - 3173 views - 04/03/13 by Paul Reed in Articles