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• Infosys given deadline for handing over source code in Qudos case

  Infosys has been given until 3 September to hand over a range of source code to Qudos Bank as part of an intellectual property case currently before the Federal Court.

• Creating the correct DevOps culture: Failure is a part of the success

  At its core, DevOps is a practice rooted in culture and philosophy. It takes time to develop and master, and for all its benefits, it’s also prone to disaster.

• Inside ANZ’s ‘industrialised’ CI/CD

  ANZ’s high-profile agile transformation program – dubbed New Ways of Working, or NWOW – has seen thousands of the bank’s employees shift into tribes, squads and guilds. The program is ANZ's response to the banking sector facing emerging challenges in the form of fintechs, as well as the changing expectations of customers.

• The path to microservices

  Applications professionals face increasing pressure to deliver applications quickly and support rapid scaling. Microservices appear to be the shining light, promising development agility, deployment flexibility and precise scalability.

• 4 factors to ruin your serverless migration

  As more and more companies embark on their digital transformation journey, organisations need to upgrade and evolve their infrastructure technology to maintain a competitive edge.

• 3 ways serverless is a game changer

  The dream of serverless is to enable companies to focus on making their application work, rather than getting tied up with managing infrastructure.

• Microsoft ‘doubling down’ on blockchain

  ​Microsoft has unveiled Azure Blockchain Service, which the company’s head of corporate communications, Frank Shaw, said “simplifies the formation, management, and governance of consortium blockchain networks, allowing businesses to focus on workflow, logic, and app development.”

• ASX launches developer sandbox for blockchain system

  ASX Limited — the operator of the Australian Securities Exchange — has begun offering its customers access to a development environment for its new blockchain-based replacement for CHESS.

• Why organisations are embracing a shift to microservices

  The rapid advance of cloud has changed the way businesses operate for good, influencing today’s modern organisations and their need for agility and high availability.

• Microsoft seeks to lure game developers to Azure

  Microsoft has brought its services for game developers under a single umbrella, dubbed Microsoft Game Stack, and launched a range of new gaming-focused Azure services.

• Mortgage Choice rolls out new core broker platform

  A new core platform rolled out by Mortgage Choice has increased its brokers’ productivity by close to a third and set the financial services provider up for the future by enabling continuous delivery of new features, according to Vincent ten Krooden.

• Developers at the heart of innovation

  In today’s technology driven and rapidly changing world, developers are at the heart of organisations’ future innovation endeavours. We’ve been hearing it for a while, but now more than ever the phrase ‘every company is a software company’ rings true.

• IP Australia eyes APIs to build ‘digital marketplaces’

  IP Australia's digital transformation program has helped cut contact centre costs by two-thirds, and some 38 per cent of enquiries are now deal with by virtual assistants.

• What are microservices?

  The origin of the term 'microservices' may not be that easy to pin down, but over the past decade the approach to application development and management has reached near ubiquity in the enterprise, with everyone from Spotify to the BBC shifting from monolithic architectures to embrace microservices.

• How Google decides to open source its technology

  Google has a solid reputation as an engineering organisation with an open source culture, with Googlers contributing a huge amount of code back to the community and projects like TensorFlow and Kubernetes making a mainstream impact.