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Building an Agile Team

Building an agile software development team is not easy. Many managers and team leads hire technically capable people, throw some form of an agile process at the team, and hope that everything works as well as the literature says it does. This approach is not only unrealistic, but is prone to failure. This article will describe the components of a successful team and how we built this team.

Darren Hale
on Oct 20, 2009
Practices from “SOA Principles of Service Design” by Thomas Erl

“SOA Principles of Service Design” by Thomas Erl is an encyclopedia of service design principles needed to build SOA solutions. This article contains three supporting practices taken from the book: Service Profiles, Vocabularies, and Organizational Roles.

Thomas Erl
on Oct 15, 2009
Improving the Performance of Automatic Configuration Management Processes by Encouraging Human Intervention

In this case study, the pattern of automatic processes interlaced with human intervention provided bwin with an instrument to raise process efficiency in CM drastically. Furthermore, successes of the incorporation of human factors into change management was an increased visibility and appreciation of the context and importance of change amongst team members and stakeholders across the company.

Robert Schwegler
on Oct 13, 2009
Enhanced Detection of Malware

This article, from Intel, discusses significant new threats to host agents, outlines a generic architecture for malware detection, based on enhanced cloud computing, describes how Intel platform technologies can be used to enhance computing solutions, and ends with a threat analysis of the approaches presented. Malware that masks its presence from traditional security agents is the article focus.

Hormuzd Khosravi and Yuriy Bulygin Divya Kolar Sunder Carlos Rozas
on Sep 30, 2009
SOA and Service Identification

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been widely accepted as an approach that facilitates business agility by aligning IT with business. In this article, Rathina Dhandapani, highlights key best practices in an SOA initiative to identify, validate and verify service inventory content well before implementation.

Rathina Dhandapani
on Sep 29, 2009
OOPSLA Debate: Cloud Computing for the Wrong Reasons

Cloud Computing will be a central topic at OOPSLA 2009. This article states that the usefulness of Cloud Computing is highly overrated and the primary objective is to make (more) money. Whether you agree or disagree, please voice your opinion here at InfoQ so we can take it with us to OOPSLA for further debate. Better yet, join us on the 25th and 26th of October at OOPSLA 2009 Cloud Workshops!

Ruth Lennon Morten Udnæs Lars Arne Skår
on Sep 28, 2009
Interview and Book Excerpt: Mark Richards' Java Message Service 2nd Edition

Java Message Service, 2nd Edition, by Mark Richards, covers JMS topics such as the two programming models, publish-and-subscribe and point-to-point, Messaging Filtering and Transactions. InfoQ spoke with Mark about his new book. Topics covered in the interview include EJB 3.0, Spring Message Driven POJO's (MDP)and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture.

Srini Penchikala
on Sep 28, 2009
Patterns from "SOA Design Patterns" by Thomas Erl, Part 2

Patterns from Thomas Erl’s book, “SOA Design Patterns”. Today, we present Chapter 16, Service Governance Patterns, comprising a number of 8 patters. Compatible Change, Version Identification, Termination Notification, Service Refactoring, Service Decomposition, Proxy Capability, Decomposed Capability, and Distributed Capability.

Thomas Erl
on Sep 21, 2009
Building FlightCaster's Frontends for the Web and Smartphones

In part two of InfoQ's interview with the FlightCaster team, we discuss scaling Rails on Heroku, the problems of integrating data from multiple providers and mobile smartphone applications.

Werner Schuster
on Sep 18, 2009
Getting started with AMQP and RabbitMQ

Joern Barthel introduces the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), and illustrates it's useage with Ruby-based client and an EDA-style app. The open source RabbitMQ server is used on the backend (which is written in Erlang).

Joern Barthel
on Sep 13, 2009
Book Review: Understanding SCA

Four years after the publication of the first SCA specification draft, SCA remains a technology that is not well known or understood. Yet IBM and Oracle have built key product suites with it.Jim Marino and Michael Rowley, both co-authors of the SCA specifications, have published a practical guide to get started with SCA which covers the entire programming model from persistence to presentation.

Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Sep 10, 2009
Patterns from SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl, Part 1

In this article we present 3 Inventory Governance Patterns from chapter 10 of the book SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl: Canonical Expression, Metadata Centralization, and Canonical Versioning. They are part of an 85 patterns catalog that serves enterprise architects and developers to find and build strong SOA solutions based on tested and proven SOA practices.

Thomas Erl
on Sep 01, 2009

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