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Controlling and Steering Open Source Projects

Open source software has become an important part of the software business. In this IEEE article, author Dirk Riehle discusses how the commercial software firms can control or steer open source software projects to meet their business needs. He talks about how these firms depend on open source and how they manage that dependency to meet their business goals.

Dirk Riehle
on Sep 12, 2011
Interview and Book Review: Continuous Delivery

Continuous delivery means that a software product is production-ready from day one of the project, even if all features not implemented, and the product can be released to users on demand. InfoQ spoke with Jez Humble and David Farley, authors of "Continuous Delivery" book on the continuous delivery concept and how it can be used to deliver the software product more efficiently.

Srini Penchikala
on Sep 06, 2011
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer Discusses the Impact of the Cloud on Enterprise IT

This article is a transcript of an interview with SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer, recorded at the inaugural What's Next Conference in Paris in May. Colyer discusses the impact of mobile devices, HTML 5 and cloud-computing on enterprise IT generally, and SpringSource's Cloud Foundary product.

Charles Humble
on Sep 06, 2011
Interview with Rob Linton, author of “Amazon Web Services: Migrating your .NET Enterprise Application”

A new "Amazon Web Services : Migrating your .NET Enterprise Application" book by Rob Linton provides a deep insight into Amazon Web Services (AWS) covering a wide spectrum of topics from describing AWS components and their role in applications architecture to step-by-step instructions on setting and configuring each AWS component . InfoQ spoke with by Rob Linton about his book.

Boris Lublinsky
on Sep 01, 2011
Understanding Cloud Computing Vulnerabilities

In this IEEE article, authors Bernd Grobauer, Tobias Walloschek and Elmar Stöcker discuss the cloud computing security and cloud-specific vulnerabilities using the vulnerability definition from the Open Group's risk taxonomy.

Elmar Stöcker Tobias Walloschek Bernd Grobauer
on Aug 15, 2011
New Book: Building Applications in the Cloud

Christopher Moyer has written a new book, “Building Applications in the Cloud: Concepts, Patterns, and Projects”. This book revolves around fundamental differences between the on-premise and cloud infrastructures, and architecture and design patterns that can be used to build and host scalable, reliable applications in the cloud.

Roopesh Shenoy
on Aug 09, 2011
Book Review and Excerpt: Scalability Rules

Martin Abbott and Michael Fisher's book, Scalability Rules, is a compilation of 50 rules for scaling applications based on experience garnered at eBay, Intuit, PayPal, Etsy, Folica and Salesforce. The book is a handy reference for experienced and novice architects, managers, developers and operations personnel through a mix of heuristics and a priority-benefit model to rank the rules.

Jeevak Kasarkod
on Aug 05, 2011
Book Review: DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD

This book is written by Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro, both expert users in DTrace and the Solaris Internals from Prentice Hall. It covers the key features of the DTrace environment, the D language that is used to write the scripts used to provide answers to questions regarding the performance of the system under question.

Alex Blewitt
on Aug 03, 2011
Extending Oozie

In this article authors show how leverage Oozie extensibility to implement custom language extensions. This approach can be viewed a specializing workflow language for a given company/line of business.

Boris Lublinsky Mike Segel
on Aug 02, 2011
Cloud Computing Realigns Role of Service Oriented Architecture

From its inception Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been a source of dissension among enterprise, solution and application architects. Now cloud computing is changing the conversation.

JP Morgenthal
on Jul 27, 2011
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Using Entity Framework to Successfully Target Multiple Databases

Yevhen Shchyholyev discusses some of the problems that the user may face in the process of developing an application with Entity Framework that interacts with Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite as well as SQL Server. It is intended to be useful to both developers using one of these databases for the first time as well as for those who regularly interaction with multiple databases.

Yevhen Shchyholyev
on Jul 25, 2011
An Open, Interoperable Cloud

This article describes how interoperable clouds can be created, today, through the integration of open standards such as the Open Cloud Compute Interface, the Open Virtualisation Format and CDMI. They provide the means to package virtual infrastructure deployments, an API for the runtime management of storage infrastructure and an API for the runtime management of infrastructure as service.

Eugene Luster Thijs Metsch Andy Edmonds
on Jul 19, 2011

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