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Agile Operations in the Enterprise

We've been hearing about agile operations quite a bit lately. There have been some good talks, articles and a few lively debates. It has even been called the "secret sauce for startups". What about those of us who aren't in a startup or a Web 2.0 company? Is agile operations something that can really work inside a large, established enterprise?

Michael Nygard
on May 21, 2010
Architecture & Design

Architecting TekPub - Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails

TekPub is a web site devoted to developers, giving them a source of focused on-line training in various topics from Microsoft Entity Framework to writing your own blog engine using Ruby on Rails. They are an interesting case about company who started on ASP.NET MVC and quickly moved to Ruby on Rails. We had the opportunity to talk with them about their technology turnaround.

Robert Bazinet
on May 19, 2010
Scala & Spring: Combine the best of both worlds

Based on a concrete example with Scala, Spring and JPA the article explains how to enhance Spring with Scala’s powerful concepts such as implicit conversions and traits. Moreover, it shows how the gap between a Java based framework and Scala can smoothly be bridged.

Urs Peter
on May 19, 2010
Graph Databases, NOSQL and Neo4j

Peter Neubauer introduces Graph databases and how they compare to RDBMS' and where they stand in the NOSQL-movement, followed by examples of using a graph database in Java with Neo4j.

Peter Neubauer
on May 12, 2010
Book Excerpt and Interview: Deploying HTML5

Deploying HTML5 is a book written by Aditya Yadav, a former Sr. Architect for ThoughtWorks and actual CTO of a consultancy firm, explaining the HTML5 standard components, showing how they are implemented across major browsers and providing code samples for using them.

Abel Avram
on May 06, 2010
Using DNS for REST Web Service Discovery

Service Discovery is an essential aspect of service orientated architecture because it avoids early binding of clients to particular service instances. In this article, Jan Algermissen explains the need for discovery of RESTful services, and explains how the existing Domain Name Service (DNS) standard can be used as a widely-deployed and scalable solution.

Jan Algermissen
on May 03, 2010
NoSQL in the Enterprise

In this article, Sourav Mazumder explores what NoSQL databases are, how they fit into Enterprise IT, the challenges facing enterprise adoption, how to choose the appropriate NoSQL database for a given application, a short list of NoSQL databases which are likely to be good matches for enterprise applications, and advice for how to adopt NoSQL databases within an enterprise.

Sourav Mazumder
on Apr 21, 2010
Inotify: Efficient, Real-Time Linux File System Event Monitoring

The need to scan a given filesystem for changes is a fairly common one, and there are a variety of common tasks which need this. A framework which offers real-time event notification for Linux file system events is Inotify. In this article we will walk through how to use Inotify to monitor directories and trigger alerts on changes and present tools you might want to add to your personal toolbox.

Michael Prokop
on Apr 15, 2010
Java

Implementing Google's "Did you mean" Feature In Java

Leandro Moreira shows how to implement a domain specific version of Google’s “Did you mean” feature based on the SpellChecker project in the Apache Lucene sandbox using thee alternative algorithms (Levenshtein, Jaro-Winkler and N-gram).

Leandro Moreira
on Apr 09, 2010
Scaling Clojure Web Apps with Google AppEngine

InfoQ takes a look at how a combo of Clojure and Google AppEngine (GAE) powers a new online project management tool, how Clojure integrates with GAE's key/value store, and the power of LISP.

Werner Schuster
on Apr 05, 2010
How HTML5 Web Sockets Interact With Proxy Servers

Peter Lubbers makes an introduction to HTML5 Web Sockets explaining how they interact with proxy servers, and what proxy configuration or updates are needed for the Web Sockets traffic to go through.

Peter Lubbers
on Mar 16, 2010
Book Excerpt and Interview: Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide

A new book by David Linthicum, Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide, describes how to get the enterprise ready for cloud computing by carefully modeling enterprise data, information services and processes in a service oriented manner to make the transition to providing and consuming cloud services easier.

Dilip Krishnan
on Feb 25, 2010

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