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The Downside of Green Power: Eagle Deaths The growth of wind farm deployments in the United States has been second only to gas-powered electrical plants in the past six years. Using alternative energy sources is a popular concept, but the growing use of wind farms has a downside—the killing of eagles and other wildlife. |
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Cloud Computing Refocuses Agile Development on the Customer For software projects embracing agile development, cloud computing can be vital in speeding the process and maximizing the. The cloud allows agile teams to focus on the project's goals over the infrastructure, ensuring that the project it main objective: fulfilling a need for the customer. |
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Autonomous Underwater Robots Track Sharks Like Never Before Researchers have created shark-tracking robots that can gather information about the predators and their environments better than humans can. The robot gets close enough to sharks to monitor them but stays far enough away to remain undetected, so the sharks’ typical routine is never interrupted. |
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Agile Is Not for Everyone (and That's OK) Agile is not just a lifecycle, but also a huge cultural shift for the entire organization. In this article, Johanna Rothman details some of the issues that prevent teams from transitioning to agile and discusses what a team's options are if it decides agile is not the way to go. |
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Embrace the Cubicle: Open-Plan Offices Make You Less Productive Studies suggest that workers in open-plan offices actually tend to be less productive, unhappier, and even unhealthier than people who work confined to their own personal spaces. Even if you hate your cubicle, it turns out it probably gives you fewer distractions, less stress, and reduced sick days. |
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How Agile Teams Use DevOps for Deployment Agile practices add value by helping teams detect problems early and avoid repeating them; these practices also help teams get feedback early and often. To extend the feedback loop into deployment, teams are taking a DevOps approach by including the needs of operations teams into the process early. |
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The OpenStack and VMware Smackdown Much has been made about rumored reports of PayPal's plan to replace their VMware infrastructure with OpenStack. Is PayPal really dumping VMware for OpenStack—or is it just hedging its bets by building a more diverse cloud infrastructure? Beth Cohen highlights the differences between the two. |
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Using Real World Data in Testing Continuous deployment and testing in production may sound risky, but when done right, the reward can be an amazing, adaptive product. |
