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Bliki: Periodic Face-to-Face

Martin Fowler

No video-conference system can create the that depth of interaction, staring at a computer screen to see what other people are doing is draining, with no opportunity to pop out for a coffee together to break up the work. I would avoid any artificial “team building” exercises, if only because of how much I hate them.

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DevOps engineer roles and responsibilities

Openxcell

DevOps is a group of methods that facilitate communication and collaboration between the teams. Teams build best practices and concepts that will shorten development cycles and help teams provide high-quality software consistently. Who is a DevOps engineer? Who is a DevOps engineer?

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Top Disadvantages to Adopting Microservices (And Why You Should Do It Anyway)

OverOps

Microservices have helped teams become more agile and accelerate feature delivery, but they’ve also brought new challenges. All teams building a containerized application will face the latter, and many teams over the next few years will face both. Transition from Monoliths. What makes Microservices hard?

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AoAD2 Practice: Blind Spot Discovery

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. This is an important part of the “no bugs” attitude found on the best Agile teams. More than anything else, teams build the wrong thing. More than anything else, teams build the wrong thing.