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Top InfoQ News and Exclusive Content for 2008

Posted by Abel Avram on Dec 31, 2008

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Enterprise Architecture,
Operations & Infrastructure,
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Looking back at the year that is coming to its conclusion, we wanted to have a retrospective and find out which were the most read news and exclusive content items during 2008. We compiled a list containing top 5 news for each community and top 3 exclusive content items for each type: articles, interviews and presentations. This list considers the number of unique readers for each news/exclusive content as provided by InfoQ’s web server statistic data. 

Top 5 News Per Community

.NET

  1. Is LINQ to SQL Truly Dead?
  2. ASP.NET MVC Example with Northwind and Entity Framework Published
  3. Java 1.5 for the .NET Platform
  4. 10 Tips when Upgrading to Visual Studio 2008
  5. IronPython for ASP.NET

Agile

  1. Agile and Offshore: Asking for Trouble?
  2. Does "Done" Mean "Shippable"?
  3. Does TDD Really Ensure Quality?
  4. Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work
  5. Continuous Integration And Version Control for Databases

Architecture

  1. James Gosling on Adobe Flash / Flex / AIR
  2. The multicore crises: Scala vs. Erlang
  3. Programming languages in future systems
  4. RAM is the new disk...
  5. Facebook Chat Architecture

Java

  1. JavaOne: Cliff Click on a Scalable Non-Blocking Coding Style
  2. Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications
  3. SpringSource Launches New Application Server without Java EE
  4. The Ioke JVM Language: The power of Lisp and Ruby with an intuitive syntax
  5. Top 10 Adobe Flex Misconceptions

Ruby

  1. MagLev: Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based on Smalltalk VM
  2. Rails 2.0 - What's a Newbie to Do?
  3. The Futures of Ruby Threading
  4. High Performance Ruby MVC: Merb
  5. Ruby 1.9 adds Fibers for lightweight concurrency

SOA

  1. Debate: JSON vs. XML as a data interchange format
  2. Building Service Oriented Architectures with Java Technology
  3. The new WCF Web Programming Model supports REST Design
  4. A Fair Comparison of REST and WS-* using an Architectural Decision Framework: is the Debate Over?
  5. ESB-Oriented Architectures considered harmful

Top 3 Exclusive Content Items

Articles

  1. What's New in Spring 2.5: Part 1
  2. A Brief Introduction to REST
  3. Distributed Version Control Systems: A Not-So-Quick Guide Through

Interviews

  1. Guy Steele on Programming Languages
  2. John McCarthy on Elephant 2000, Lisp, Ruby and the Computer Industry
  3. Kent Beck on Implementation Patterns

Presentations

  1. The Power of Javascript
  2. How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters
  3. Does My Bus Look Big in This?
  • This article is part of a featured topic series on SOA and also Agile
What does it say when 2/5 of the 'Java' topics are about Flex? by Alex Blewitt Posted
Re: What does it say when 2/5 of the 'Java' topics are about Flex? by Abel Avram Posted
Old news by Richard Cowin Posted
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    What does it say when 2/5 of the 'Java' topics are about Flex?

    by Alex Blewitt

    Flex isn't anything to do with Java. Even the underlying language describes itself as based on ECMAScript, not JavaScript, which in any case doesn't have anything to do with Java. Were there really no worthy other posts published in the Java category?

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    Old news

    by Richard Cowin

    A Brief Introduction to REST is from 2007

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    Re: What does it say when 2/5 of the 'Java' topics are about Flex?

    by Abel Avram

    The respective news was published for the Java community and it was one of top 5 news for that community.

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    Re: Old news

    by Abel Avram

    Yes, but it has one of the largest numbers of readers in 2008 according to our web server statistics.

Educational Content

Attila Szegedi on JVM and GC Performance Tuning at Twitter

Attila Szegedi talks about performance tuning Java and Scala programs at Twitter: how to approach GC problems, the importance of asynchronous I/O, when to use MySQL/Cassandra/Redis, and much more.

10 tips on how to prevent business value risk

One category of risk that project teams need to ensure they address is business value failure – delivering a product that fails to provide value for the business investor.

Interview: Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives

InfoQ spoke to the authors of Software Systems Architecture on a couple of new topics, the System Context viewpoint and Agile, which have been added to the second edition.

Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Alex Papadimoulis discusses ugly code, where it comes from, how to avoid it, and how to get rid of it.

Architecting Visa for Massive Scale and Continuous Innovation

John Davies examines Visa’s architecture and shows how enterprises have architected complex integrations incorporating Hadoop, memcached, Ruby on Rails, and others to deliver innovative solutions.

Max Protect: Scalability and Caching at ESPN.com

Sean Comerford unveils ESPN.com’s architecture, what components are used and why, and the current changes the website goes through.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Agile Adoption

Are there repeated patterns of failure on Enterprise Agile Enablement efforts? Sanjiv and Arlen discuss Seven Deadly Sins to avoid when adopting Agile in an enterprise.

Questions for an Enterprise Architect

Erik Dörnenburg answers: What is Enterprise and Evolutionary Architecture?, discussing 4 issues: Turning strategy into execution, Ensuring conformance, Where do the architects sit? Buying or building?