DZone

JUNE 30, 2019

Slack is the hottest collaboration tool in the market today, both as an internal tool for teams working together and for external groups who share similar interest and need a place to collaborate and share ideas. Slack also offers a free tier which is used by many public communities such as software developers and testers. This tier includes unlimited private and public channels, 10K messages, up to 10 apps (Github, Bitbucket, etc.), file sharing, custom notifications and more.

Software 189

Software Software Development Java 189

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

Within 24 hours of last month's post on regulation of technology firms , new anti-trust probes into Google and Apple were reported by the Wall Street Journal. Around the same time, Renault stirred up a hornets nest of regulatory furore over its proposed (and subsequently withdrawn) merger with Fiat Chrysler. It's worth examining the prior in the context of the latter to understand why the regulatory free ride Big Tech Media firms enjoy will continue for quite some time to come.

Transportation 40

Transportation Government Automotive Media 40

The Morning Paper

JUNE 30, 2019

The convoy phenomenon Blasgen et al., IBM Research Report 1977 (revised 1979). Today we’re jumping from HotOS topics of 2019, to hot topics of 1977! With thanks to Pat Helland for the recommendation, and with Jim Gray as one of the authors, we have a combination that’s very hard to ignore :). Here’s the set-up as relayed to me by Pat (with permission): At work, I am part of a good sized team working on a large system implementation.

Traffic 75

Traffic Latency Programming Scalability 75