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  • Config Management Camp Panel: Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure as Code

    The Config Management Camp featured a panel with Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp and creator of Terraform, Gareth Rushgrove, senior software engineer at Puppet Labs, and John Keiser, development lead at Chef, discussing creation of infrastructure from code and cloud resources and APIs.

  • Step by Step Improvement Needs Relative Safety

    At the OOP 2015 conference Colin Hood talked about bridging the gap between requirements engineering process definition and successful iterative roll-out. He presented how the introduction of improvements to requirements engineering can be done better when done step by step, and how relative safety is needed to enable people to take the steps.

  • 21st Century Software Delivery with Jez Humble

    Jez Humble has stated that current software delivery practices are not optimised to create valuable software, and three issues must be addressed in order to enable innovation. First, the traditional project model is unsuitable. Second, the entire organisational value stream must be addressed. Third, the problems are rooted in process and culture, not organisational structure or tooling.

  • Apache Hive 1.0 Released, HiveServer2 Becomes Main Engine, Stable API Defined

    Apache Hive has released version 1.0 of their project on February 6th, 2015. Originally planned as version 0.14.1, the community voted to change the version numbering to 1.0.0 to reflect the amount of maturity the project has reached.

  • Cloud Foundry Foundation is Born and Gets a New Lead

    Cloud Foundry Foundation that was formed recently to advance an open source PaaS gets a new lead, Sam Ramji as the CEO. InfoQ talks to James Watters, VP for Product at Pivotal, Christopher Ferris, CTO Open Cloud at IBM and Dr. Nic Williams, CEO of Stark and Wayne.

  • Config Management Camp: Beyond Configuration Management

    Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp and creator of Vagrant, presented the first Config Management Camp keynote, describing the status of the datacenter in the past and today, the existing problems and outlining solutions, such as distributed systems, failure tolerance or usage of containers.

  • Google Dumps SPDY after HTTP/2 Enters "Last Call"

    Google has announced giving up SPDY after HTTP/2.0 has integrated the protocol and its standardization is in its final stages.

  • FOSDEM Virtualization: Docker Integration in oVirt and Live Migration of Containers with CRIU

    Federico Simoncelli, principal software engineer in the virtualization department at Red Hat, explained the integration status between oVirt, Docker containers and Kubernetes, and Andrey Vagin, software engineer at Parallels, covered the work done in the CRIU project to enable live migration of containers, at the virtualization developer room at FOSDEM.

  • Going Beyond Agility with Antifragility

    Antifragility emphasizes embracing chaos or randomness through adapting and evolving. It can help enterprises to be more able to deal with and even gain from uncertainty and disorder, making them more flexible and adaptive to events that happen.

  • CoreOS Release Rocket and App Container Specification v0.3.1.

    CoreOS have released v0.3.1. of the Rocket container runtime and associated App Container (appc) specification, which includes new user-facing features and several important implementation changes that contribute to the stated goals of security and composability.

  • Using Cost of Delay to Quantify Value and Urgency

    Joshua Arnold facilitated a workshop about Cost of Delay at the Lean Kanban France 2014 conference. InfoQ did an interview with Arnold in which he talks about the cost of delay: what it is, why it matters, the importance of quantifying it and some tips for getting started.

  • Udi Dahan on Defining Service Boundaries

    Udi Dahan, a SOA consultant, held the presentation Finding Service Boundaries – Illustrated in Healthcare at NDC London 2014, providing advice on establishing the service boundaries in a SOA or microservice architecture.

  • Java's JDK Repository Now Builds Warning-Free

    The cleanup programme for OpenJDK has reached a major milestone - the main OpenJDK jdk repository is now free of build warnings.

  • SAP Launched New Business Suite, SAP S/4HANA

    At an event hosted at the New York Stock Exchange, SAP launched its flagship Business Suite, SAP S/4HANA, which includes a new user interface, mobile capabilities and HANA in-memory analytics.

  • FOSDEM Virtualization: Docker Containers in Foreman and LXD

    Daniel Lobato, software engineer at Red Hat, presented the new Foreman features to manage Docker containers, and Serge Hallyn, member of Ubuntu server team, introduced the new LXD project, the Linux container daemon, at the FOSDEM virtualization developer room.

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