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How Zalando Delivers APIs with Radical Agility

InfoQ interviewed Thomas Fraustein, architect at Zalando, about his team’s radical agility development organization that is optimized for an API-first approach. He explains what an API-first approach is, and provides tips on building good APIs for scalable microservice architectures where a large number of services are offered efficiently.

Jerome Louvel
on Dec 24, 2016
DevOps

Anders Wallgren of Electric Cloud on Metrics for DevOps and the Importance of Culture

At Agile 2016, Anders Wallgren of Electric Cloud spoke about the importance of metrics for DevOps success, selecting the right things to measure and the importance of having a generative culture. He gave examples of how organizations have improved cycle times and quality outcomes by orders of magnitude and explored why they were able to achieve these results.

Shane Hastie
on Dec 21, 2016
DevOps

Automating the Database: A Win-Win for DBAs and DevOps

The key to effective database administration in DevOps initiatives is safe automation and enforced source control for the database, which prevents many errors from reaching the deployment stage.

Yaniv Yehuda
on Dec 19, 2016
Architecture & Design

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2016

The 10th annual QCon San Francisco was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1500 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors. Over 125 practitioner-speakers presented 92 full-length technical sessions and 32 in-depth tutorials, providing deep insights into real-world architectures and state of the art software development practices from a practitioner’s perspective.

Abel Avram
on Dec 14, 2016
Java

Book Review: Learn Apache JMeter by Example

JMeter is an indispensable tool for testing load and functionality of multi-tiered applications comprised of web front ends, JVM servers and a wealth of NoSQL and relational databases. This book is the manual that should have been included to help surmount the learning curve.

Victor Grazi
on Dec 06, 2016
DevOps

Five Lessons Security Can Learn from DevOps

Just as DevOps emerged to meet new business needs, new approaches in security are now needed to address the challenges of a DevOps-driven world. These new security approaches themselves must incorporate DevOps practices that rely on modularity, automation, standardization, auditability, and mirrored systems.

Wei Lien Dang
on Nov 30, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Practice of System and Network Administration (3rd Edition)

The book The Practice of System and Network Administration takes a holistic view on system administration: it provides a framework and strategies for solving problems regardless of the operating system, brand of computer, or type of environment. The third edition incorporates new developments like DevOps, infrastructure as code, continuous integration, operational excellence and assessments.

Ben Linders
on Nov 28, 2016
Culture & Methods

Dennis Ehle on Visibility into the DevOps Value Chain

At the recent Agile 2016 conference, InfoQ spoke to Dennis Ehle about the evolution of DevOps and the importance of having visibility into how value is delivered over the DevOps pipeline.

Shane Hastie
on Nov 24, 2016
DevOps

The Container Landscape: Docker Alternatives, Orchestration, and Implications for Microservices

The orchestration of containers is key for success, and various technologies are competing for market share. This article examines the current tooling and how this relates to deploying microservices. A key takeaway is that developers should create business logic of their microservices using a vendor -and platform- agnostic approach.

Kai Wähner
on Nov 20, 2016
Java

How Java Developers Can Use the Wiremock Framework to Simulate HTTP-Based APIs

A common syndrome in development shops today is the repeated creation of over-the-wire stubs and mocks for testing. In this article Wojciech Bulaty covers how Java developers can avoid reinventing the wheel and leverage Wiremock to build over-the-wire HTTP(s) stubs.

Wojciech Bulaty
on Nov 08, 2016
DevOps

Why and How to Test Logging

Logging and aggregation are crucial tools for today's complex, distributed systems. They provide rich insights which keep time to recover short. We must therefore make sure we test logging adequately.

Matthew Skelton Manuel Pais
on Oct 29, 2016
Culture & Methods

How to Successfully Install Agile/DevOps in Asia

Installing Agile / DevOps in Asia is very difficult. This article presents five steps to help overcome the cultural barriers and be successful.

Tsuyoshi Ushio
on Oct 22, 2016

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