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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.

    Matthias Marschall
    on Feb 17, 2014

  • 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.

    Gilad Parran-Nissany
    on Feb 12, 2014

  • 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.

    Sreeranga P. Rajan Alvaro A. Cárdenas Pratyusa K. Manadhata
    on Feb 11, 2014

  • The Secrets of Database Change Deployment Automation

    Yaniv Yehuda looks at the challenges involved in automating database deployments and offer suggestions based on Agile and DevOps concepts.

    Yaniv Yehuda
    on Feb 07, 2014

  • Virtual Roundtable: The Future of PaaS in Cloud Computing

    There has been a raging debate about PaaS and whether it is still a valuable part of a cloud portfolio, so InfoQ reached out to four leaders in the cloud domain (cloud advocate Krish Subramanian, cloud developer Dan Turkenkopf, cloud executive JP Morgenthal, and cloud expert James Urquhart) for their opinions on the future of PaaS.

    Richard Seroter
    on Feb 05, 2014

  • Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure

    Raffi Krikorian, Vice President of Platform Engineering at Twitter, gives an insight on how Twitter prepares for unexpected traffic peaks and how system architecture is designed to support failure.

    Xuefeng Ding
    on Jan 19, 2014

  • Beyond Piracy: Software Publishers Battle Greater Threats to Their Intellectual Property

    Software is in everything from our automobiles to our mobile devices, and as the world becomes even further immersed in the digital era, new security threats are arising beyond the software industry. Today, software products are becoming more susceptible to incidences of reverse-engineering and code tampering – not just outright theft.

    Michelle Nerlinger
    on Jan 07, 2014

  • Preparing for Your First MongoDB Deployment: Backup and Security

    This article we focuses on the database backup tools and security policies when deploying MongoDB NoSQL databases. Topics like cloud backups with MongoDB Management Service (MMS), authentication, and authorization are covered.

    Mat Keep
    on Jan 05, 2014

  • Pragmatic Techniques for Maintaining a Legacy Application

    Maintaining a legacy application can make you feel like mice in a maze. In this article Ping Chen shares her experiences on how to pragmatically maintain a large legacy application. "Pragmatic” is the operative word; since a legacy application can have lots of technical debt, one has to be strategic in choosing the right battles.

    Chen Ping
    on Jan 02, 2014

  • Monty Taylor and Jim Blair on CI and Test Automation at OpenStack

    Monty Taylor and James Blair talk about the build and test challenges they face at OpenStack, and how they managed to tackle them. Managing hundreds of VMs on public clouds, integrating up to 400 commits a day and running thousands of test jobs on them are some of the challenges described.

    Sai Yang
    on Dec 29, 2013

  • Cassandra CLI Internals Using JArchitect

    Cassandra CLI is a useful tool for Cassandra administrators. It's a good example of how to implement a Cassandra client and CLI internals help us to develop custom Cassandra clients or even extend the CLI tool. In this article, author explores Cassandra CLI architecture model using JArchitect tool and CQLinq language to analyze its code base.

    Dane Dennis
    on Dec 19, 2013

  • The Perfect Dev/Test Lab: 10 Principles that make it Possible

    Software that drives the business typically takes inordinate amounts of time to develop and test. Now with new technologies able to normalize the private and public clouds the ultimate software development lab is not only feasible but cost-effective as well. To achieve hyper-agile software development, here are key principles for building the next-gen dev/test lab of enterprise DevOps’ dreams.

    Rami Tamir
    on Dec 12, 2013
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