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OpenStack in Action Review and Q&A with the Author
OpenStack in Action is a new release from Manning that aims to introduce readers to the OpenStack platform for cloud computing (IaaS). InfoQ has interviewed V. K. Cody Bumgardner, author of the book.
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Q&A with Shawn Callahan on Putting Stories to Work
The book Putting Stories to Work by Shawn Callahan provides a process with a practical approach to master business storytelling; a leadership skill that helps to achieve results. It contains many stories that can help you to use storytelling for business communication and culture change.
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Q&A on Express.js with Evan Hahn
When people talk about Node.js powering the back-end web, they're often actually talking about Express. Just as jQuery and other frameworks smooth over the XmlHttpRequest work in the browser, Express.js works to make the experience on the server just as easy. In this Q&A, author Evan Hahn provides more context on Express and where it's going.
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Q&A on Achieving Impact through Engagement
The book achieving impact through engagement by Si Alhir and and Peter L. Simon explores two models on employee and customer engagement: The Ownership Pyramid (TOP) and Artful Agility or Actions-Intentions-Results (AIR). Together these models can be used to achieve impact in organizations based on increasing engagement.
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Q&A with the Authors on "Requirements: The Masterclass LiveLessons-Traditional, Agile, Outsourcing"
Suzanne and James Robertson, authors of numerous publications in the requirements field, launched a video course called "Requirements: The Masterclass LiveLessons-Traditional, Agile, Outsourcing". InfoQ interviewed them on these video lessons to get further insights into some of the topics addressed.
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Q&A on the Scrum Field Guide - 2nd Edition
The Scrum Field Guide - 2nd Edition by Mitch Lacey is a "what to expect" book for organizations transitioning to agile, which aims to help teams to deal with issues that occur and fine-tune their own implementation. An interview about the essentials of Scrum, sprint length, full time Scrum masters, making time available for solving defects, preventing bad hires, and increasing benefits from Scrum.
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"Using Docker" Book Review and Q&A with Author Adrian Mouat
InfoQ recently sat down with Adrian Mouat, author of “Using Docker”, and explored the motivations for writing the book, his thoughts on the reasons why Docker has captured the IT industry’s attention such as short time span, and how containers can be best utilised within a typical software development lifecycle.
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Designing Delivery Book Review and Interview
Book review and interview with Jeff Sussna, author of "Designing Delivery", on cybernetics, service exchange, customer-centric brands and a new definition of quality in a service-oriented world.
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Spark in Action Book Review & Interview
In the "Spark in Action" book, authors Petar Zecevic and Marko Bonaci discuss the Apache Spark framework for data processing (batch and streaming data use cases). They introduce the architecture of Spark and core concepts such as Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs). InfoQ spoke with them about Apache Spark, developer tools, and the upcoming features and enhancements in the future releases.
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Book Review: All About Java 8 Lambdas
Billed as a Weekend Read, the All About Java 8 Lambdas book covers much more than just lambdas; it covers default and static methods in interfaces, method references, optional values and primitive/object streams. It’s the book to read if you know Java and need to get up to speed on Java 8. Read on for InfoQ’s review.
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Docker Containers LiveLessons Review and Q&A
Addison-Wesley Professional’s Docker Containers LiveLessons aim to show what Docker containers are and how they can be effectively used. The 2.5+ hours video course is aimed to practitioners with no previous experience and will lead them through a journey going from installing the software to more complex topics such as orchestration. InfoQ has spoken with course instructor Chris Negus.
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Q&A on the Lean IT Field Guide
In the book The Lean IT Field Guide Mike Orzen and Tom Paider explain how to initiate, execute, and sustain a Lean IT transformation. InfoQ interviewed them about how lean can be seen as a learning system, why managers should have both technical and social skills, how to assure that changes will sustain, and establishing a culture of engineering excellence and craftsmanship.