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Creating a Mobile Development Strategy for 2015

Now that 2015 is underway, it’s imperative to consider a mobile strategy framework for a prosperous year and beyond. We will be discussing some key points to consider as you plan your strategy for the year, and how they can help you usher in a successful future. These topics include visual development environments , Bimodal IT, cloud-based mobile development and the HTML5 vs. native debate.

Fima Katz
on Mar 30, 2015
Probabilistic Project Sizing Using Randomized Branch Sampling (RBS)

Analyzing all the stories in a project requires significant time. How can we estimate the size of a project without prior identification and analysis of every single user story? If you don't want to analyze all user stories in your project in order to estimate its size then Randomized Branch Sampling is an approach you can use for portfolio related decisions and quotations on prospect projects.

Dimitar Bakardzhiev
on Mar 29, 2015
The Indian Banking Community Cloud

In this article, authors discuss the Indian Banking Community Cloud (IBCC) that provides cloud-based services exclusively to Indian banks to address the financial sector's growing demand for secure cloud-based services.

Lalit Sangavarapu G.R. Gangadharan Shakti Mishra Abraham Williams
on Mar 28, 2015
Q&A with Gene Kim on the State of DevOps Survey

The 4th edition of the State of DevOps survey is out. InfoQ talked to the survey's co-author Gene Kim to understand what are the goals for this edition, how the data is analysed and what have we learned so far from past surveys.

Manuel Pais
on Mar 26, 2015
Architecture & Design

The Microservice Revolution: Containerized Applications, Data and All

Microservice architectures and container-based virtualization have taken the software development community by storm in recent months. This article will describe the advantages of container-based microservices and why failing to containerize stateful services like databases greatly reduces the benefits of microservices architectures.

Luke Marsden
on Mar 19, 2015
Yes, Hardware Can Be Agile!

“You can’t do 2-week iterations with hardware!” This is the first thing you’ll hear when talk turns to Agile methods in hardware-software product development. A mix of existing robust hardware development ideas, plus a few newly taken from Agile software are being used now by real teams, even to get around - or through - the challenge of doing fast iterations.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert
on Mar 18, 2015
Beyond Blacklisting: Cyberdefense in the Era of Advanced Persistent Threats

In this article, authors discuss the security vulnerabilities in software applications and how whitelisting approach has advantages over blacklisting. They also talk about how to implement the whitelisting security policies and cost involved with it.

Kyle Salous Aaron Beuhring
on Mar 17, 2015
How to Start With Security

Computer security, or the lack thereof, has made many headlines recently. In this article we'll look at how bad things are and what you, as a software developer, can do about it. It will help get you started or hopefully give you some new ideas if you're already doing some security work.

Rémon (Ray) Sinnema
on Mar 14, 2015
Q&A on Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly

The book "Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly" by Bertrand Meyer provides a review of agile principles, techniques and tools. It explores the agile methods Extreme Programming, Lean Software, Scrum and Crystal and provides suggestions on what to use or not to use from them, based on software engineering principles and research and personal experience of the book author.

Ben Linders
on Mar 13, 2015
Cloud Security Auditing: Challenges and Emerging Approaches

Security audits are an important part of IT security programs. In this article, authors highlight the challenges in cloud computing business models, based on interviews with cloud security auditors. They talk about the challenges in the areas of transparency, encryption and colocation and domain-tailored audits as ideal solution in the new model.

Syed Rizvi William Aiken John Kissell Jungwoo Ryoo
on Mar 08, 2015
Go for the Money! JSR 354 Adds First Class Money and Currency Support to Java

First class money and currency support in Java are almost here. In this article Credit Suisse's Anatole Tresch JSR 354 spec lead, discusses the shortcomings of the legacy currency and money support, motivation for the new APIs, and lots of examples.

Anatole Tresch
on Mar 03, 2015
Employing Enterprise Architecture for Applications Assurance

In this article, authors discuss how enterprise, software, and security architects can improve software assurance by using the enterprise architecture to promulgate the software security controls. They also talk about other security model components like threat modeling, attack trees, secure design patterns, and misuse cases.

Walter Houser
on Feb 26, 2015

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