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Book Review: ATDD By Example
“ATDD By Example” value proposition was to be an introductory hands-on guide to implementing and successfully applying Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) from zero. Despite doing a reasonable job of summarizing and/or pointing to several test-related practices required for any successful agile tester, the book ends up trying and failing to be all things to all readers.
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How to Succeed with an OpenStack or CloudStack Project
Dan Bode, Puppet Labs, and Floyd Strimling, Zenoss, provide advice for those interested in starting an open source cloud project built on top of OpenStack or CloudStack platform.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2012
This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Tutorials, Keynotes, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Big Data and Analytics, Continuous Delivery,Cross Platform Mobile, Dynamic Languages, Java Renaissance, Loose Concurrency & CAP Theorem Today, Mechanical Sympathy, NoSQL and many more!
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Metrics-Driven Development
In this article the author shares his thoughts and experience gathered while working together with DEV teams, trying to make sense of metrics. He introduces the practice of Metrics-Driven-Development: using metrics to drive the entire application development.
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PaaS Is The Word
This article presents a transition path to Platform-as-a-Service for IT. An exploration of the steps from pre-virtualization or virtualization through selecting and operating a PaaS.
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The State of NoSQL
Stefan Edlich, Senior Lecturer at Beuth HS of Technology Berlin, Germany, reviews NoSQL, considering its evolution, financial impact, the standards or their lack of, the current landscape, books, the leaders and some newcomers, concluding that NoSQL is here to stay.
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Detection of Mobile Malware in the Wild
In this article, authors talk about new techniques for detecting mobile malware to help protect smartphones from security threats. The techniques include Static analysis, Dynamic analysis, Application permission analysis, Cloud-based detection, Battery life monitoring. They also discuss smartphone protection tips and best practices.
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A User’s Story: DubDubDeploy
When Donte Ormsby came to us, it was just a friendly letter to say that he found a great tool for simplifying website deployment using ASP.NET and thought our reader might find it useful. After talking a bit, we decided the best way to introduce DubDubDeploy to you would be for him to just tell his story.
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Inside the Complexity of Delivering Cloud Computing
There's a lot more to cloud computing than meets the eye. This article presents an insider's view on what really is entailed in designing and deploying a cloud-based solution.
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Testing in the Cloud: Exploring the Practice
In this article, authors discuss the effects of cloud-based testing in software delivery process. They talk about cloud-based testing services such as performance testing and web-based application testing. They also share the results from their interviews with different organizations and their use of cloud in testing and suggest a cloud-based testing roadmap.
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Hadoop and Metadata (Removing the Impedance Mis-match)
A new Apache HCatalog project is a table and storage management layer for Hadoop that enables different data processing tools – Pig, MapReduce, and Hive – to more easily inter-operate data. HCatalog’s presents users with a relational view of data and ensures that users need not worry about where or in what format their data is stored – RCFile format, text files, or sequence files.
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CAP and Cloud Data Management
In this article, author Raghu Ramakrishnan discusses data management in the cloud and the tradeoff between consistency, availability and partition tolerance aspects of CAP theorem, which has become a key design factor in large scale data management systems. He also talks about Yahoo PNUTS system case study and concepts of Relaxed and Timeline consistency and Selective record replication.