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"In Search of Certainty" - Book Review and Interview with Mark Burgess
"In Search of Certainty - The Science of Our Information Infrastructure", written by CFEngine's creator, Mark Burgess, takes us into a fascinating journey through physics, biology and what we can learn from them and apply to the information infrastructure realm. InfoQ took the opportunity to discuss the book with the author.
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Untangling the Enterprise With Continuous Delivery
John Kordyback explains why you should and how you can introduce Continuous Delivery into a typical enterprise, where dozens of systems adopted over the years generate massive complexity. Learn how value-stream mapping and Lean Startup thinking help to create a deployment process which serves as a solid foundation for further improvements on the whole software change lifecycle.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2014
This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon London 2014 as blogged and tweeted by attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 27 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team. The publishing schedule can be found on the QCon London web site.
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Seven Steps to Create an Unbeatable Enterprise Mobility Strategy
As mobility is transforming our lives, this article gives a step-by-step approach on how enterprises can seamlessly connect their mobile workforce to back-end systems for increased productivity. Covering topics like business goal definition, API and data security or user experience it provides a broad overview on what to keep in mind while planning an enterprise mobility strategy.
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Orchestrating Your Delivery Pipelines with Jenkins
Following up on his previous article on preparing for CD in the enterprise, Andrew Phillips reviews state-of-the-art plugins and solutions in the Jenkins ecosystem for achieving efficient, reproducible and secure delivery pipelines. Helped by none other than Jenkins creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi.
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How to Protect Valuable or Personal Data on PC, Hard Drive and Flash Drive
Approximately 60% of all computers sold worldwide today are portable. Portable computers are taken everywhere, making them an easy target for criminals, especially for the private data they contain. Even a failed hard drive that you send back to your vendor for warranty is a potentially at risk. How can your personal data be protected? With one word - encryption!
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Virtual Panel on Immutable Infrastructure
“Immutable Infrastructure” is a term that has been increasingly talked about lately among the Ops community. InfoQ reached out to experienced ops engineers to ask them what is the definition and borders of immutable infrastructure as well as its benefits and drawbacks, in particular when compared to current widespread “desired state” configuration management solutions.
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Embedded Analytics and Statistics for Big Data
This article provides an overview of tools and libraries available for embedded data analytics and statistics, both stand-alone software packages and programming languages with statistical capabilities. The authors also discuss how to combine and integrate these embedded analytics technologies to handle big data.
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Reliable Auto-Scaling using Feedback Control
Philipp K. Janert explains how to reliably auto-scale systems using a reactive approach based on feedback control which provides a more accurate solution than deterministic or rule-based ones.
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Book Review: Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef - Second Edition
The second edition of Stephen Nelson-Smith's book "Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef" covers the principles behind "Infrastructure as Code", provides an introduction to Ruby, Chef, and important Tools. The main part consists of detailed examples on how to use the tools required to write fully tested infrastructure code.
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Answering Common Cloud Security Questions from CIOs
With the news stories of possible data breaches at enterprises like Target, and the current trend of companies migrating to cloud environments for the flexibility, scalability, agility, and cost-effectiveness they offer, CIOs have been asking hard questions about cloud security.
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Big Data Analytics for Security
In this article, authors discuss the role of big data and Hadoop in security analytics space and how to use MapReduce to efficiently process data for security analysis for use cases like Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Fraud Detection.