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Interview and Book Review: Programming Concurrency on the JVM

In his latest book "Programming Concurrency on the JVM" author Venkat Subramaniam talks about the concurrency techniques using different JVM programming languages. He also discusses Software Transactional Memory (STM) and Actor-based Concurrency. InfoQ spoke with Venkat about his new book.

Srini Penchikala
on Jan 10, 2012
Integrating Lucene with HBase

The article describes overall design and implementation of integrating Lucene search library with HBase back end. It describes integration architecture, implementation and HBase tables design

Boris Lublinsky Mike Segel
on Dec 29, 2011
The Rise of Application Analytics: A New Game Demands New Rules

When developers know how their applications are really being used “in the wild,” they will build better software, more efficiently, and with greater confidence. Sebastian Holst shows you how using application analytics.

Sebastian Holst
on Dec 27, 2011
Succeeding with Dependency Injection

While the principal pattern is easy to understand it can be difficult to succeed with Dependency Injection without considering the larger context. DI is an application of the principle of Inversion of Control and to succeed with IoC you’ll also need to invert your thinking. This article provides a sketch of the mental model you need to adopt to succeed with DI.

Mark Seemann
on Dec 19, 2011
Feature Injection: three steps to success

Often Customers provide half baked solutions with no linkage to value. An Agile team needs examples linked to the Business Value they provide. Feature Injection is a process that takes a half baked solution identifies the Business Value it provides and then produces a set of examples driven from that value.

Chris Matts Gojko Adzic
on Dec 14, 2011
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2011

This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Advancing Agile to the Next stage with Lean, Agile in the Midlife, Architecture Case Studies, Beautiful Code, Big Data and NoSQL, Functional Web, Cross Platform Mobile Development, HTML5 & JavaScript, Systems That Never Stop and many more!

Abel Avram
on Dec 09, 2011
A Java Developer’s Guide to PaaS

This article reviews and compares 6 leading vendors of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions for Java developers, together with 3 up and coming vendors mentioned at the end of the article. After reading it, you will learn different technical and business approaches of Java PaaS, and then decide for yourself which vendor provides the best platform for your needs.

Michael Yuan
on Dec 08, 2011
Interview and Book Review: Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns

"Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns" catalogs many common patterns in modern HTML5 applications. InfoQ talked to one author, Dionysios Synodinos, about the book and working with HTML5.

Werner Schuster
on Dec 02, 2011
Trust is good, Control is better - Software Architecture Assessment

Testing is an important means to obtain information about implementations. Likewise, code reviews help to keep the code quality high. What is very common for code, gets sometimes neglected for software architecture. But how can a project team test the architecture itself? Software architecture assessment represents an effective approach for introspecting and assessing software design.

Michael Stal
on Nov 29, 2011
Virtual Panel: Cloud Services Governance

Governance plays an indisputably important role in maintaining and guiding the implementation of an architectural vision. The advent of cloud computing has changed the architectural landscape affecting the needs and demands of existing governance programs. InfoQ presents a virtual panel discussion with six leading experts on the current state and future of cloud services governance.

Jeevak Kasarkod
on Nov 24, 2011
Virtual Panel: Security Considerations in Accessing NoSQL Databases

NoSQL databases offer alternative data storage options for storing unstructured data compared to traditional relational databases. Though the NoSQL databases have been getting a lot of attention lately, the security aspects of storing and accessing NoSQL data haven't been given much emphasis. This article focuses on the security considerations and best practices in accessing the NoSQL databases.

Srini Penchikala
on Nov 15, 2011
Moving Channel9.msdn.com to Windows Azure

Imagine if architects had to be the janitor for every building they designed. With an understaffed Channel 9 development team handling production support on a web farm built from mismatched servers, something had to be done. When Windows Azure was launched in the summer of 2010 the development team saw it as a way to hand off support and return to building features.

Duncan Mackenzie
on Nov 07, 2011

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