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Increasing Role of Open Source in ASP.NET

There has been an increasing trend in the ASP.NET team lately to adopt more Open Source - from supporting JQuery and Modernizr, to releasing sources for some underlying platform components. InfoQ gets in touch with Scott Hunter, Principal Program Manager Lead for ASP.NET to learn about this new trend, drivers behind some recent decisions and how things might look in the future.

Interview and Book Excerpt: CERT Resilience Management Model

CERT Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM), developed at Software Engineering Institute (SEI), defines the processes for managing operational resilience in complex risk-evolving environments. InfoQ spoke with Rich Caralli, Technical Manager of the CERT Resilient Enterprise Management Team, about RMM framework and the book he co-authored.

Omnipresent Synching and Availability with Mobile Couchbase

Omnipresent synchronisation will be easy with CouchDB not only hosted as server side database but also being embedded in mobile applications. Couchbase made the NOSQL Document Database available for the mobile platforms to enable developers to benefit from the replication and offline capabilities while using the convenient and uniform HTTP based protocol to interact with it locally or remotely.

The Curse of the Change Control Mechanism

Unprecedented levels of change caused by the pace of innovation are stretching traditional contract models to the breaking point. As more organizations adopt Agile and Lean for the development of innovative/complex products and services, new contract models are needed that accommodate change. The Evolutionary Contract Model, based on Agile / Lean principles, offers promise as a possible solution.

Cloud Computing Roundtable

In this IEEE panel discussion article, guest editors Ivan Arce and Anup Ghosh facilitated the discussion on cloud computing security risks. The panelists are Eric Grosse (Google Security), John Howie (Microsoft), James Ransome (Cisco), Jim Reavis (Cloud Security Alliance) and Stephen Schmidt (Amazon Web Services).

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2011

This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged or tweeted about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Tutorials, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Building Systems With REST, Design and Objects 2011, Enterprise Agile Transformation, Functional Web, HTML5, the Platform, iOS4 and Android, NoSQL: Where and How, and many more!

How ALM Drives Business/IT Alignment, Competitive Advantage

ALM and Business Processes

Meet the Goliath of Ruby Application Servers

PostRank Labs released an open source version of their Ruby web server framework powering PostRank. Goliath, is an asynchronous server designed for speed, leveraging key features of Ruby 1.9+. Goliath creates fast web and data services not unlike node.js but sticking with what Ruby developers know..Ruby. Discover how easy it can be to create manageable server-side services with Ruby.

Concurrency Controls in Data Replication

Learn about leading concurrency control mechanisms used for data replication in distributed environments, comparing synchronous and asynchronous implementations with/without locking - techniques used by Oracle RAC, TimesTen, and GigaSpaces and NoSQL databases. Explore tradeoffs among performance, consistency, deadlocks, and conflicting updates in the context of a sample distributed application.

Implementation Decision Rationales – Program Comprehension in Agile

Given the fact that the bulk of a developer's work is maintaining and enhancing existing code, Fabian Kiss makes the case for a lightweight approach to documenting the rationale and decision process behind design decisions to help later developers tie the source code syntax to its meaning in the application domain. Using simple tags and clearly thought out rationale to provide just-enough value.

The Azul Garbage Collector

Azul's recently announced Zing product brings their Garbage Collector, which achieves both pauseless garbage collection and a high tolerance to the factors which typically impact collection and application responsiveness, to Java programs running on Intel and AMD based servers. This article takes a detailed look at how Azul has been able to achieve these design goals.