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"The Docker Book" Review and Author Q&A

"The Docker Book", by James Turnbull, is a hands-on book for everyone who wants to learn about Docker. It will take you from your first installation, through simple examples that explain Docker's concepts, to more complex scenarios that shed some light on how you would use Docker on the real world. InfoQ took the opportunity to hear the author on the book and Docker.

João Miranda
on Oct 10, 2014
DevOps in Telecoms – Is It Possible?

Joachim Bauernberger shares his experience working in the Telecom industry and reminds us how DevOps can help further improve what Agile started in a hardware dependent world. Hardware integrations and multiple feature streams can lead to integration and testing silos that need to be streamlined. DevOps practices and mindset are key to achieve that.

Joachim Bauernberger
on Sep 30, 2014
Book Review: Pro Website Development and Operations

Overall the book is a quick read that provides some useful insights and potential starting points for enterprise practitioners and technical managers in medium to large enterprises where development and operations are still very defensive towards each other (often driven by conflicting goals) and where a blame culture reigns.

Manuel Pais
on Sep 29, 2014
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Real-Time Stream Processing as Game Changer in a Big Data World with Hadoop and Data Warehouse

This article discusses what stream processing is, how it fits into a big data architecture with Hadoop and a data warehouse (DWH), when stream processing makes sense, and what technologies and products you can choose from.

Kai Wähner
on Sep 10, 2014
Nikita Ivanov on GridGain’s In-Memory Accelerator for Hadoop

GridGain recently announced the In-Memory Accelerator for Hadoop, offering the benefits of in-memory computing to Hadoop based applications. It includes two components: an in-memory file system and a MapReduce implementation. InfoQ spoke with Nikita Ivanov, CTO of GridGain about the architecture of the product.

Srini Penchikala
on Sep 08, 2014
Application Delivery Controllers - Bridging the Gap Between DevOps and Network Planning

This article examines the attributes needed to make an application delivery controller suited for SaaS and cloud-based Web properties and how these attributes map to the unique requirements of cloud-based application service providers.

Paul Andersen
on Sep 06, 2014
Your Database: The Threat That Lies Within

What do you need to properly administer you database from conception to production? Yaniv Yehuda talks about some of the challenges that developers are often not even aware of and the tools he prefers to deal with them.

Yaniv Yehuda
on Sep 03, 2014
Docker: Present and Future

Chris Swan presents an overview of the Docker journey so far and where it is headed along with its growing ecosystem of tools for orchestration, composition and scaling. This article provides both a business and a technical point of view on Docker and separates the hype from the reality.

Chris Swan
on Aug 31, 2014
Practical Cassandra: A Developer's Approach - Book Review and Interview

Practical Cassandra: A Developer's Approach book by Russell Bradberry and Eric Lubow, is a developer's guide to build applications using Cassandra NoSQL database. InfoQ spoke with the authors about the book, Cassandra data model, design considerations and how Cassandra performs concurrency and versioning of the data sets.

Srini Penchikala
on Aug 21, 2014
A Few Good Rules

Peter Neumark from Prezi talks about the importance of deciding what development standards to adopt and to detect when they're past their expiry date. Using Netflix and Prezi as examples, Peter illustrates with technical examples when to stick to standards and when to move on to better solutions.

Peter Neumark
on Jul 25, 2014
HaMIS: One 24/7 Product and Four Scrum Teams, Four Years Later

This is a story about four cross-functional scrum/DevOps/feature teams delivering and managing a business-critical 24/7 system used by vessel-traffic services operators and many other users, a compendium of topics that derive from our more than four years of agile and scrum practices at the Port of Rotterdam, one of the world's busiest ports.

Viktor Grgic
on Jul 17, 2014
Book Review: "Taste Test, 2nd edition" and Q& A with Matt Jaynes

Taste Test, by Matt Jaynes, is a book that uses a simple scenario to compare Ansible, SaltStack, Chef and Puppet. On the recently released 2nd edition it adds new chapters on Docker, the communities around the tools, and how they fare on security. InfoQ took this opportunity to talk with Matt to know more about his thoughts on the tools and his approach to configuration management when consulting.

João Miranda
on Jul 14, 2014

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