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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
DevOps @ large investment bank

This article is part of the “DevOps War Stories” series. In each issue we hear what DevOps brings to a different organisation, we learn what worked and what didn’t, and chart the challenges faced during adoption. This time a very personal story on introducing a DevOps mindset at a large bank. In particular how the automation of configuration and release management processes enabled collaboration.

Niek Bartholomeus
on Dec 11, 2013
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2013

This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon San Francisco 2013 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 19 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team. The publishing schedule can be found on the QCon San Francisco web site.

Abel Avram
on Dec 10, 2013
BYOC and the Rise of Hybrid Cloud

Chris Smith offers insights on how to leverage the increasing employee adoption of cloud services (Bring Your Own Cloud) to perform their work. Understanding the risks and benefits becomes essential.

Chris Smith
on Nov 30, 2013
What’s Next in Software Analytics

In this article, a panel of experts in software analytics discuss the important and overlooked aspects of the software analytics field. Topics covered include what software analytics mean to the developers, practitioners, and information analysts and the opportunities for “natural” software analytics based on statistical natural language processing (NLP).

Ahmed E. Hassan Martin Shepperd Abram Hindle Prem Devanbu Per Runeson Sunghun Kim
on Nov 20, 2013
Costin Leau on Elasticsearch, BigData and Hadoop

Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud. The first milestone of elasticsearch-hadoop 1.3.M1 was released last month. InfoQ spoke with Costin Leau about Elasticsearch and how it integrates with Hadoop and other Big Data technologies.

Srini Penchikala
on Nov 15, 2013

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