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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.

JP Morgenthal
on Nov 29, 2012
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.

Stefan Edlich
on Nov 21, 2012
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.

Hee Beng Kuan Tan Mahinthan Chandramohan
on Nov 05, 2012
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.

Donte Ormsby
on Oct 11, 2012
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.

JP Morgenthal
on Oct 03, 2012
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.

Ossi Taipale Kari Smolander Leah Riungu-Kalliosaari
on Sep 27, 2012
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.

Alan Gates Russell Jurney
on Sep 26, 2012
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.

Raghu Ramakrishnan
on Sep 14, 2012
The Wide Range of DevOps

The changes necessary for DevOps adoption can be plotted on a timeline-style graph, where the extreme left represents traditional ops culture and practices, and the right represents a newer DevOps-style. In this view of the world, the question is not “Is your company practicing DevOps?” but instead is the more accurate “How strong of a DevOps culture has your company adopted?”

Mitchell Hashimoto
on Sep 13, 2012
Transitioning from RDBMS to NoSQL. Interview with Couchbase’s Dipti Borkar

While relational databases have been used for decades to store data, and they still represent a viable solution for many use cases, NoSQL is being chosen today especially for scalability and performance reasons. This article contains an interview with Dipti Borkar, Director of Product Management at Couchbase, on the challenges, benefits and the process of migrating from RDBMS to NoSQL.

Abel Avram
on Sep 08, 2012
A Brave New World of Testing? An Interview with Google's James Whittaker

Cloud Computing is creating substantial changes to the usual way of doing business. How should organizations leverage this approach to improve testing and quality assurance of software? To get an answer, author Forrest Shull spoke with James Whittaker from Google about cloud computing testing.

Forrest Shull
on Aug 06, 2012
Is the Enterprise Ready for DevOps?

As the DevOps movement gains popularity enterprises have started to adopt its concepts and tools to manage large infrastructures and complex delivery processes. InfoQ asked some experienced DevOps adopters about the organizational and technical obstacles still ahead for the movement to step into the enterprise world.

Manuel Pais
on Aug 01, 2012

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