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The Book of F# - Review and Interview with Dave Fancher

The book of F#, authored by Dave Fancher examines the concepts associated with F# with the help of comprehensive explanation and relevant source codes. Towards the end of the book, Fancher provides coverage of advanced topics such as asynchronous and parallel programming.

Anand Narayanaswamy
on Apr 08, 2014
eXtreme Programming The Methodology

A practical approach to implementing eXtreme Programming as a methodology. This article first sets the stage regarding the values, roles, plan & manage, and design & development principles of XP are. Then it discusses a personal experience from an Agile Coach perspective implementing eXtreme Programming followed by recommendations, and conclusion.

Sanjeev Raman
on Apr 02, 2014
Seven Steps to Create an Unbeatable Enterprise Mobility Strategy

As mobility is transforming our lives, this article gives a step-by-step approach on how enterprises can seamlessly connect their mobile workforce to back-end systems for increased productivity. Covering topics like business goal definition, API and data security or user experience it provides a broad overview on what to keep in mind while planning an enterprise mobility strategy.

Arun Bhattacharya
on Apr 01, 2014
DevOps

Orchestrating Your Delivery Pipelines with Jenkins

Following up on his previous article on preparing for CD in the enterprise, Andrew Phillips reviews state-of-the-art plugins and solutions in the Jenkins ecosystem for achieving efficient, reproducible and secure delivery pipelines. Helped by none other than Jenkins creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi Andrew Phillips
on Mar 29, 2014
Java

Exploring Micro-Frameworks: Spring Boot

Get started with Spring Boot, a Java-orientated micro-frameworks. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install it, develop a Spring Boot app, develop a microservice step by step, also checking for security and how to package your Spring Boot app. It includes code snippets.

Dan Woods
on Mar 18, 2014
OpenJDK and HashMap …. Safely Teaching an Old Dog New (Off-Heap!) Tricks

The OpenJDK Off-Heap JEP will be a radical departure from traditional Java priorities, seeking to standardize a facility for efficiently manipulating off-heap memory. This article surveys the impact this JEP will have to empower Java HashMap with new off-heap capabilities. Simply put, this JEP may be just the magic that can “teach” HashMap (that lovable old dog) some new tricks.

Ben Cotton Peter Lawrey
on Mar 14, 2014
How Composite C1 Found Success by Becoming Open Source

In today’s environment it is difficult to offer commercial products, especially in highly competitive fields such as content management systems. Finding themselves being squeezed out of the market, Composite C1 found a way to thrive by releasing their core product under an open source license with cloud based hosting.

Jonathan Allen
on Mar 13, 2014
Author Q&A on Programming for Kids

The book Programming for Kids contains many examples that kids in the age from 9-14 can use to learn the basics of programming, using the programming language Ruby. It also shows them how they can use the command line on a Mac computer. Parents can sit beside their kids and follow along. InfoQ did an interview with the author Peter Armstrong about how kids learn computer programming.

Ben Linders
on Mar 07, 2014
Interview with Andy Piper on the Eclipse Paho project and the Internet of Things

MQTT provides the communications link for low-power systems. InfoQ caught up with Andy Piper, lead of the Eclipse Paho project, to find out more about the history of MQTT and why it is being used by internet scale companies such as Facebook.

Alex Blewitt
on Mar 03, 2014
Custom Assertions in Java Tests

Using so-called "matcher libraries" to implement custom assertions to make tests more readable and maintainable.

Tomek Kaczanowski
on Feb 27, 2014
From Imperative Programming to Fork/Join to Parallel Streams in Java 8

The authors compare different methods to compute the variance of a large data set using an imperative style, The fork/join framework and the new Streams API in Java 8

Mario Fusco Raoul-Gabriel Urma
on Feb 21, 2014
Modern Enterprise Performance Analysis Antipatterns

In this article we present some of the most common performance analysis antipatterns in the enterprise platform, expressed in terms of their basic causes along with remediation strategies.

Ben Evans
on Feb 15, 2014