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Cloud Security Auditing: Challenges and Emerging Approaches

Security audits are an important part of IT security programs. In this article, authors highlight the challenges in cloud computing business models, based on interviews with cloud security auditors. They talk about the challenges in the areas of transparency, encryption and colocation and domain-tailored audits as ideal solution in the new model.

Syed Rizvi William Aiken John Kissell Jungwoo Ryoo
on Mar 08, 2015
Employing Enterprise Architecture for Applications Assurance

In this article, authors discuss how enterprise, software, and security architects can improve software assurance by using the enterprise architecture to promulgate the software security controls. They also talk about other security model components like threat modeling, attack trees, secure design patterns, and misuse cases.

Walter Houser
on Feb 26, 2015
Config Management Camp Panel: Next Steps in Configuration Management

Patrick Debois, part of the team that organized the first DevOps Days and who coined the term DevOps, ran the Config Management Camp panel "Next Steps in Configuration Management", featuring Luke Kanies, Puppet author and Puppet Labs CEO, John Keiser, development lead at Chef, Thomas Hatch, Salt author and Salt Stack founder, and Mark Phillips, director of business development at Ansible.

Carlos Sanchez
on Feb 22, 2015
Service-Oriented Architecture and Legacy Systems

In this article, authors provide an overview of current SOA technologies and how to evolve in legacy environments. They also discuss the topics of SOAP vs. REST web services, Enterprise Application Integration and incremental transition to SOA in legacy environments.

Josune Hernantes Gorka Gallardo Nicolas Serrano
on Feb 20, 2015
Simple TOSCA Orchestration for Docker

TOSCA (Topology Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications), governed by the OASIS organization, is a platform for defining a standard container orchestration specification that is portable across various cloud environments and container providers.

Nati Shalom
on Feb 14, 2015
DevOps in AWS LiveLessons Review and Q&A with Author Paul Duvall

Addison-Wesley Professional Devops in AWS LiveLessons is a 4+ hours video course for infrastructure developers and Sys Ops engineers who aim at creating a fully-automated continuous delivery system in AWS. The course is focused on leveraging key features of AWS while also presenting them in the framework of DevOps best practices and tools. InfoQ has spoken with course author Paul Duvall.

Sergio De Simone
on Feb 12, 2015
R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics – Book Review and Interview

The book "R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics" authored by Jared P. Lander covers the R programming language and how to use it for data analytics and visualizations. InfoQ spoke with Jared about the R programming language, book, and big data analytics and visualization.

Srini Penchikala
on Feb 07, 2015
DevOps

Virtual Roundtable: The Role of Containers in Modern Applications

JP Morgenthal recently published a controversial DevOps.com article entitled “Containers Are Designed for an Antiquated Application Architecture.” After observing a lively debate on Twitter, InfoQ reached out to some of the most influential (and opinionated!) tech leaders in the industry – including Morgenthal himself – and asked them to participate in a virtual roundtable.

Richard Seroter
on Feb 05, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Big Data Processing with Apache Spark – Part 1: Introduction

Apache Spark is an open source big data processing framework built around speed, ease of use, and sophisticated analytics. In this article, Srini Penchikala talks about how Apache Spark framework helps with big data processing and analytics with its standard API. He also discusses how Spark compares with traditional MapReduce implementation like Apache Hadoop.

Srini Penchikala
on Jan 30, 2015
Getting Started with Monitoring using Graphite

Setting up a new monitoring system might seem daunting at first. Franklin guides us through the first steps and explains the architecture and inner workings of a Graphite-based monitoring system. Key takeaways are understanding time series data and configuration, datapoint formats, aggregation methods and retention.

Franklin Angulo
on Jan 23, 2015
InfoQ Talks to Azul Systems Gil Tene Part 2

In this part 2 of InfoQ's conversation with Gil Tene of Azul Systems, Gil discusses their latest engineering project aimed at bring better low-level memory layout control to Java, and the requirement modern high-performance Java applications have for this solution.

Ben Evans
on Jan 17, 2015
Learning Fast in Design, Development and DevOps

Delivering the right products fast can be challenging, certainly when there are many unknowns along the way. If you want to build products fast in a context of high uncertainty you need to be able to learn fast and efficiently said Ismaël Héry from Le Monde. At the Lean Kanban France 2014 conference he gave a presentation about learning fast to build fast.

Ben Linders
on Jan 14, 2015

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