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Things you can Check when Adopting Agile
An agile checklist is a tool which can help you to assess your agile implementation in an organization, and assist when adopting agile. Some examples of lists with things that you can check when adopting agile.
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Solving Difficult System Problems with a DevOps Culture
Michael Stanke, director of software delivery at Puppet Labs, has written on SysAdvent about how DevOps is the development of a culture that can successfully overcome complex and difficult system thinking problems. Michael shares his experience of transitioning into a new position full of opportunities to make technical and process oriented contributions.
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Are your Software Development Projects using Agile?
A Gartner research report from December 2009 predicted that by 2012 “agile development methods will be utilized in 80% of all software development projects”. Let's check if the prediction from Gartner has come true?
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Dear Agilist....
Christopher Avery at the Cutter Consortium publishes a challenge to agilists: become managers and revolutionize the corporate culture yourselves.
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Demand For Agile Skills Outstripping Supply
The supply of agile professionals can't keep up with the demand. That's great news for coaches and practitioners, but bad news for companies hoping to implement agility cheaply.
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How Alibaba Catered To $3 Billion Sales In A Day
Chinese Ecommerce Giant, Alibaba, recently managed to sell $3 billion worth of product in a single 24 hour period. InfoQ got a chance to ask a few questions to Zhuang Zhuoran and Youtan, architects from Tmall and Taobao, about the challenges of handling such loads and how they meet them.
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RavenDB Gets Better Performance, Tooling, Async APIs
RavenDB 2.0 RC was recently released with a better tooling, a new Changes() API, Eval Patching, better indexing performance and several other improvements.
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Predictions For SOA, Cloud and Big Data In 2013
With 2012 drawing to a close it's the season for analysts and others to give their thoughts on what we can expect in 2013. These range from how SOA will be used more in social and mobile, through to it being the year when people will see that Private Cloud is really just virtualization. What do you think of these predictions and can you offer some of your own?
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QCon London 2013 (March 6-8): Future of Mobile Dev, Finance Track Highlights; New Speakers Added
The 7th annual QCon London will feature over 100 speakers presenting more than 80 presentations across 15 tracks. Last year’s event was completely sold out with over 1,200 attendees. Topics include: Architectural Case Studies, Big Data/NoSQL, Distributed Systems/REST, Performance & Scalability , Mobile, Web APIs, Agile, Cloud Computing and more. Save up to £341 if you register by Jan 11th.
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Changing the Culture for Agile
Organizations have a need for changing the culture when implementing agile. Different approaches exist to spread agile ideas and make changes happen.
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Managing Hadoop with Apache Ambari
In his new blog post Hortonworks Vice President of Corporate Strategy Shaun Connolly discusses the importance of Apache Ambari incubation project and the main milestones achieved by the project in 2012: simplified cluster provisioning, pre-configured key operational metrics, job execution visualization, a RESTful API and an intuitive UI.
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JAX-RS 2.0 and Bean Validation 1.1 First Java EE 7 JSRs to Win Public Approval
Java Enterprise Edition version 7 is well under way. Late last month JSR 339 and JSR 349 were adopted by the public review ballot, making them the first two JSR's to be ratified. InfoQ spoke to Marek Potociar, JSR 339 co spec lead about the latest version of the RESTful Java API.
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Why Bother to Develop a Windows Phone 8 App
To date Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 is still a distant fourth in the battle for the hearts and minds of Mobile OS users. Google App Director, Clay Bavor stated that they ‘have no plans to build out Windows apps.’
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Google’s Service Changes Spell Trouble for Windows 8
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 rely on a technology known as Exchange ActiveSync. This technology is the communication protocol that allows applications in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 to synchronize email, calendar, and contact information from Google accounts. As of January 30th, that service will no longer be available new users.
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Couchbase Releases Couchbase Server 2.0 GA
Couchbase Server 2.0 main features include flexible JSON data model, distributed indexing and querying, incremental map-reduce, and cross data center replication.