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Virtual Panel: NoSQL Database Patterns and Polyglot Persistence

NoSQL database space has different databases that support different data storage patterns. InfoQ spoke with four panelists about the current state of NoSQL adoption, architecture patterns supported by different NoSQL databases, polyglot persistence and security aspects when using NoSQL databases.

Srini Penchikala
on Jul 03, 2012
Lessons From A DevOps Journey

Matt Callanan has been pushing the boundaries of Agile software development for over six years and most recently he extended that journey to DevOps. He recently shared his experiences in a talk at the Agile Development Practices West conference entitled "Lessons From A DevOps Journey". InfoQ caught up with Matt prior to the conference to find out more about his experiences in DevOps.

Craig Smith
on Jun 27, 2012
Implementing Aggregation Functions in MongoDB

In this article, authors Arun Viswanathan and Shruthi Kumar discuss how to implement common aggregation functions on a MongoDB document database using its MapReduce functionality. They also discuss a typical application of aggregations which includes business reporting of sales data.

Shruthi Kumar Arun Viswanathan
on Jun 20, 2012
DevOps:Evolving to Handle Disruption

With continued concerns regarding IT’s ability to meet the demands of the business in light of disruptive influences and a changing economic landscape DevOps might hold an answer.

JP Morgenthal
on Jun 13, 2012
A Distributed Access Control Architecture for Cloud Computing

Cloud computing’s multitenancy and virtualization features pose unique security and access control challenges. In this article, authors discuss a distributed architecture based on the principles from security management and software engineering to address cloud computing’s security challenges.

Arif Ghafoor Walid G. Aref Abdulrahman A. Almutairi Saleh Basalamah Muhammad I. Sarfraz
on Jun 12, 2012
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Data Modeling: Sample E-Commerce System with MongoDB

The rich document capabilities and atomic operation guarantees in MongoDB makes it possible to model many different applications. Even rigorous requirements of conventional applications like e-commerce system are possible in a document database. This data model (i.e. "schema design,") is useful for developing applications around any restricted resource system, not just e-commerce systems.

Christian Kvalheim
on Jun 06, 2012
CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed

The CAP theorem asserts that any networked shared-data system can have only two of three desirable properties (Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance). In this IEEE article, author Eric Brewer discusses how designers can optimize consistency and availability by explicitly handling partitions, thereby achieving some trade-off of all three.

Eric Brewer
on May 30, 2012
Introduction to MongoDB for Java, PHP and Python Developers

The NoSQL movement is here to stay. The need for reliable storage that can be easily queried and easily scalable without the pain of SQL schema migration is real. Developers want more agile systems. This article uses MongoDB to introduce NoSQL concepts. This article covers the basics of MongoDB architecture, caveats and programming in MongoDB for Java, PHP, and Python developers.

Rick Hightower
on May 22, 2012
An Implementer’s View of Cloud Computing Readiness Assessments

Are Cloud Computing Readiness Assessments a red herring or a valuable tool to help management decide if the organization is ready to adopt?

JP Morgenthal
on May 21, 2012
Dan Allen on Arquillian Testing Framework

Arquillian is an integration and functional testing platform that can be used for Java middleware testing. It helps bring the tests to the runtime environment, freeing developers from managing runtime from within the test. InfoQ caught up with Dan Allen to talk about the framework features and its future roadmap.

Srini Penchikala
on May 14, 2012
The Future of Authentication

In this IEEE roundtable discussion hosted by guest editors Richard Chow, Markus Jakobsson, and Jesus Molina, the panelists discuss current authentication approaches, how to authenticate users on mobile devices and the future direction of authentication.

Steve Kirsch Scott Matsumoto Jesus Molina Ori Eisen Richard Chow Paul van Oorschot Markus Jakobsson Dirk Balfanz
on May 04, 2012
MongoDB, Java and Object Relational Mapping

Brian C. Dilley covers pitfalls, & strengths of using MongoDB ("a very approachable NoSQL solution"), and introduces MJORM. The MJORM project is an annotation free MongoDB Java ORM library. This article builds on Brian's real world in the trenches experience with MongoDB and includes "gotchas" like "Don't treat MongoDB like an RDBMS...", how to "design your indexes carefully", and more.

Brian C. Dilley
on Apr 30, 2012

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