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ActiveJPA – Active Record Pattern for JPA

ActiveJPA is a Java implementation of Martin Fowler’s Active Record pattern that wraps around JPA and provides useful abstractions to simplify data access. With ActiveJPA, models themselves act as a DAO and interact with the database without requiring additional code for the DAL. In this article the primary committer discusses ActiveJPA and provides plenty of usage examples.

Ganesh Subramanian
on Jan 22, 2014
Interview with Ole Jepsen on Leadership in Agile

Good leaders create an environment where self-organizing teams can thrive and create great products and services to delight their customers: that is what Ole Jepsen explains in this interview. At the XP Days Benelux conference he talked about truly leading people and the subtle but important differences between taking and giving control.

Ben Linders
on Jan 20, 2014
Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure

Raffi Krikorian, Vice President of Platform Engineering at Twitter, gives an insight on how Twitter prepares for unexpected traffic peaks and how system architecture is designed to support failure.

Xuefeng Ding
on Jan 19, 2014
Non-functional Requirements in Architectural Decision Making

In this article, authors present an empirical study based on a survey about the software architecture practices for managing non-functional requirements (NFRs) and decision making in software development process. They also discuss about how these requirements are elicited, documented, and validated at different organizations.

David Ameller Claudia Ayala Xavier Franch Jordi Cabot
on Jan 17, 2014
Minding the API Hierarchy of Needs with RAML and APIkit

Reza Shafii explains how to satisfy two fundamental needs of API design and implementation, as defined by the API hierarchy of needs, with RAML, API Designer and APIkit.

Reza Shafii
on Jan 15, 2014
Intelligent Evolution: Making Change Work

Some 80% of all improvement and change programmes fail: they did not achieve the expected results, the investment in the change programme was greater than the value achieved, “improvements” were seen as mostly bureaucratic, or changes were abandoned soon after the implementation. Intelligent Evolution ensures long-term business success rather than short-term satisfaction of a standard or theory.

Peter Leeson
on Jan 13, 2014
Beyond Piracy: Software Publishers Battle Greater Threats to Their Intellectual Property

Software is in everything from our automobiles to our mobile devices, and as the world becomes even further immersed in the digital era, new security threats are arising beyond the software industry. Today, software products are becoming more susceptible to incidences of reverse-engineering and code tampering – not just outright theft.

Michelle Nerlinger
on Jan 07, 2014
Preparing for Your First MongoDB Deployment: Backup and Security

This article we focuses on the database backup tools and security policies when deploying MongoDB NoSQL databases. Topics like cloud backups with MongoDB Management Service (MMS), authentication, and authorization are covered.

Mat Keep
on Jan 05, 2014
Design Patterns: Magic or Myth?

In this article, author discusses the effectiveness of the usage of design patterns in software development. The analysis is based on surveys and mapping studies conducted to indicate which patterns were considered useful under what circumstances.

David Budgen
on Jan 04, 2014
Pragmatic Techniques for Maintaining a Legacy Application

Maintaining a legacy application can make you feel like mice in a maze. In this article Ping Chen shares her experiences on how to pragmatically maintain a large legacy application. "Pragmatic” is the operative word; since a legacy application can have lots of technical debt, one has to be strategic in choosing the right battles.

Chen Ping
on Jan 02, 2014
Monty Taylor and Jim Blair on CI and Test Automation at OpenStack

Monty Taylor and James Blair talk about the build and test challenges they face at OpenStack, and how they managed to tackle them. Managing hundreds of VMs on public clouds, integrating up to 400 commits a day and running thousands of test jobs on them are some of the challenges described.

Sai Yang
on Dec 29, 2013
Building a Real-time, Personalized Recommendation System with Kiji

Jon Natkins explains in this article how to create a personalized recommendation system fed with large amounts of real-time data using Kiji, which leverages HBase, Avro, Map-Reduce and Scalding.

Jon Natkins
on Dec 26, 2013

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