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  • Highly Distributed Computations Without Synchronization

    Synchronization of data across systems is expensive and impractical when running systems at scale. Traditional approaches for performing computations or information dissemination are not viable. In this article Basho Sr. Software Engineer Chris Meiklejohn explores the basic building blocks for crafting deterministic applications that guarantee convergence of data without synchronization.

    Christopher Meiklejohn
    on Feb 17, 2015

  • Simple TOSCA Orchestration for Docker

    TOSCA (Topology Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications), governed by the OASIS organization, is a platform for defining a standard container orchestration specification that is portable across various cloud environments and container providers.

    Nati Shalom
    on Feb 14, 2015

  • DevOps in AWS LiveLessons Review and Q&A with Author Paul Duvall

    Addison-Wesley Professional Devops in AWS LiveLessons is a 4+ hours video course for infrastructure developers and Sys Ops engineers who aim at creating a fully-automated continuous delivery system in AWS. The course is focused on leveraging key features of AWS while also presenting them in the framework of DevOps best practices and tools. InfoQ has spoken with course author Paul Duvall.

    Sergio De Simone
    on Feb 12, 2015

  • R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics – Book Review and Interview

    The book "R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics" authored by Jared P. Lander covers the R programming language and how to use it for data analytics and visualizations. InfoQ spoke with Jared about the R programming language, book, and big data analytics and visualization.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Feb 07, 2015
  • DevOps

    Virtual Roundtable: The Role of Containers in Modern Applications

    JP Morgenthal recently published a controversial DevOps.com article entitled “Containers Are Designed for an Antiquated Application Architecture.” After observing a lively debate on Twitter, InfoQ reached out to some of the most influential (and opinionated!) tech leaders in the industry – including Morgenthal himself – and asked them to participate in a virtual roundtable.

    Richard Seroter
    on Feb 05, 2015
  • AI, ML & Data Engineering

    Big Data Processing with Apache Spark – Part 1: Introduction

    Apache Spark is an open source big data processing framework built around speed, ease of use, and sophisticated analytics. In this article, Srini Penchikala talks about how Apache Spark framework helps with big data processing and analytics with its standard API. He also discusses how Spark compares with traditional MapReduce implementation like Apache Hadoop.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Jan 30, 2015

  • Evo: The Agile Value Delivery Process, Where ‘Done’ Means Real Value Delivered; Not Code

    Current agile practices are far too narrowly focused on delivering code to users and customers. There is no systems-wide view of other stakeholders, of databases, and anything else except the code. This article describes what ‘Evo’ is at core, and how it is different from other Agile practices, and why ‘done’ should mean ‘value delivered to stakeholders’.

    Kai Gilb Tom Gilb
    on Jan 26, 2015

  • Getting Started with Monitoring using Graphite

    Setting up a new monitoring system might seem daunting at first. Franklin guides us through the first steps and explains the architecture and inner workings of a Graphite-based monitoring system. Key takeaways are understanding time series data and configuration, datapoint formats, aggregation methods and retention.

    Franklin Angulo
    on Jan 23, 2015
  • Java

    5 Advanced Java Debugging Techniques Every Developer Should Know About

    With architectures becoming more distributed and code more asynchronous, pinpointing and resolving errors in production is harder than ever. In this article we investigate five advanced techniques that can help you get to the root cause of painful bugs in production more quickly, without adding material overhead.

    Tal Weiss
    on Jan 20, 2015

  • InfoQ Talks to Azul Systems Gil Tene Part 2

    In this part 2 of InfoQ's conversation with Gil Tene of Azul Systems, Gil discusses their latest engineering project aimed at bring better low-level memory layout control to Java, and the requirement modern high-performance Java applications have for this solution.

    Ben Evans
    on Jan 17, 2015

  • Learning Fast in Design, Development and DevOps

    Delivering the right products fast can be challenging, certainly when there are many unknowns along the way. If you want to build products fast in a context of high uncertainty you need to be able to learn fast and efficiently said Ismaël Héry from Le Monde. At the Lean Kanban France 2014 conference he gave a presentation about learning fast to build fast.

    Ben Linders
    on Jan 14, 2015

  • Introduction to Puppet

    An introduction to Puppet, an infrastructure configuration management tool. In this article Susannah Axelrod, gives an overview of both Puppet, the language, and Puppet, the platform, discussing all the main concepts around them. Susannah also writes about how to start an Infrastructure as Code initiative as well as sharing additional learning resources for those who want to know Puppet in-depth.

    Susannah Axelrod
    on Jan 08, 2015
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