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GS Collections by Example – Part 2
Donald Raab, creator of GS Collections, open sourced by Goldman Sachs in 2012, continues to explore more examples from that powerful framework
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Stats Anomalies Detector
The article describes the general outline of the Stats Anomalies Detector we developed at MyHeritage and provides a detailed explanation of how to enhance the code (will be available soon at MyHeritage GitHub) to meet your company’s needs.
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Updated Principles of Service Orientation
Our understanding of SOA has changed over the last 15 years including new aspects such as Service Execution Context and a re-defined notion of the Service Contract. This paper reviews and updates the Principles of Service Orientation based on the first OASIS SOA RAF standard bridging the gap between business and technology and eliminating technology-specific wording in their formulation.
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Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Currency?
Bitcoin currency model is getting more attention than any other digital currency proposed to date. In this article, authors analyze Bitcoin's decentralized model and discuss possible solutions to enhance its decentralization.
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Measuring and Improving Software Development Productivity
The book Improving Software Development Productivity contains practices, models and case studies to quantitatively support adoption of agile software development. An interview with Randall Jensen about measuring and improving productivity, contribution of agile to productivity, benefits from pair programming and teams, knowledge retention in maintenance and commandments for communication.
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How SOA Governance (and SOA Management) Should Actually Be Done
Ganesh Prasad proposes separating governance and management in large SOA projects to make sure that right dependencies are used throughout the system in order to promote agility, lower operating costs and reduced operational risks.
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Analytics Across the Enterprise: How IBM Realizes Business Value from Big Data and Analytics
Analytics Across the Enterprise: How IBM Realizes Business Value from Big Data and Analytics book by Brenda L. Dietrich, Emily C. Plachy, and Maureen F. Norton is a collection of experiences by analytics practitioners in IBM. InfoQ spoke with the authors about the lessons learned from the book, the arsenal of technologies IBM has about Big Data and the future of Analytics.
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Why Some Web APIs Are Not RESTful and What Can Be Done About It
Many Web API designers claim their are RESTful, but their APIs have little in common with REST. What can be done to make a web service API truly RESTful?
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Interview and Book Review: Managing Windows Servers with Chef
InfoQ spoke with John Ewart about his book “Managing Windows Servers with Chef” that covers all aspects of managing Windows systems with Chef.
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Jonas Bonér on Reactive Systems Anti-Patterns
Taking the opportunity offered by the update to the Reactive Manifesto, InfoQ asked Jonas Bonér, TypeSafe CTO and original author of the first Reactive Manifesto, some questions about his vision of “Reactive” applications. Jonas offered his thoughts about both desirable features of reactive applications and what is not reactive programming.
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The State of Practice in Model-Driven Engineering
In this article, authors discuss the practice of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) based on a survey of MDE practitioners and found that developers use MDE techniques to develop key parts of a system instead of generating whole systems.
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Cloud Automation in a Windows World
In this article, Matt Wrock explores real world Windows automation scenarios. How is Windows being automated in 2014? What are the pain points? How does this differ from the Linux world?