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Dmitriy Setrakyan introduces GridGain, comparing it and outlining the cases where it is a better fit than Hadoop, accompanied by a live demo showing how to set up a GridGain job.
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Posted by Amr Elssamadisy on Mar 23, 2007
As more and more people move towards adoption of Agile practices, they are looking for guidance and advice on how to adopt Agile successfully. Unfortunately many of the questions they have such as: “Where do I start?”, “What specific practices should I adopt?”, “How can I adopt incrementally?” and “Where can I expect pitfalls?” are not adequately addressed.
This book answers these questions by guiding the reader in crafting their own adoption strategy focused on their business values and environment. This strategy is then directly tied to patterns of agile practice adoption that describe how many teams have successfully (and unsuccessfully) adopted practices like test-first development, simple design, and others.
188 pages, 6" x 9", ISBN# 978-1-4303-1488-2
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Part 1: Business Value, Smells, and an Adoption Strategy
Business Values
Smells
Adopting Agile Practices
Part 2: The Patterns
Automated Developer Tests (Abstract Patter
Test-Last Development
Test-First Development
Refactoring
Continuous Integration
Simple Design
(Automated) Functional Tests
Collective Code Ownership
Part 3: The Clusters
Clusters of Practices
Evolutionary Design
Test Driven Development
Test Driven Requirements
Conclusion
Appendices
Pattern to Business Value Mappings
Pattern to Smell Mappings
Adoption Strategy Case Study
Getting the Most from Agile Practice Patterns
Reading a Pattern Effectively
Amr currently serves Valtech as a Principal Consultant where he helps Valtech’s clients build better software using the latest technologies and of course adopting and adapting Agile practices. Amr is also an Agile news writer for InfoQ.com. Ever since being introduced to eXtreme Programming in late 1999, he has been sold on Agile Development and, as a consultant, has been selling it to clients. He has been working exclusively with agile practices and helping teams adopt and adapt practices to suit their environments and build better software. Amr has used his experience and gathered the expertise of many others from the Agile community in order to bring together their experiences in this book.
Books on InfoQ are intentionally short and attempt to address important, timely issues in as concise a way as possible. The book's writing is intended for the Senior Architect/team lead audience. Ever thought of writing a book? Our series is a great way to start. InfoQ offers abnormally high royalties and also contract writing opportunities. Email books AT c4media.com for opportunities.
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