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What We’ve Learned at Devoxx4Kids about Teaching Technology to Kids

The holiday season is a great time to think about our children and their futures, and how we can guide them into the lucrative field of programming and electrical engineering at a young age. Java Champions Arun Gupta and Daniel De Luca, organizers of the popular Devoxx4Kids conference, reveal tried and proven tools and techniques for teaching these abstract fields to our fledglings.

Daniel De Luca) Devoxx4Kids.org (Arun Gupta
on Dec 23, 2015
DevOps

Interview series: DevOps Enterprise Adoption

InfoQ ran a series of interviews during the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, focusing on the DevOps transformations that many corporations are currently undertaking to improve not only their productivity and time to market, but also to increase engagement and collaboration between people and teams.

Manuel Pais
on Dec 16, 2015
Java

The Soul of a New Release: Eating Our Own Dog Food

As any software developer well knows, large releases are often delayed, or released sans some important features, and newly released software is often riddled with bugs. In this article Plumbr's development lead describes techniques they used to successfully release a major upgrade to the Plumbr Java Performance Monitoring solution, without getting burned by the usual fires.

Nikita Salnikov-Tarnovski
on Dec 15, 2015
Java

Easily Create Java Agents with Byte Buddy

In this article Rafael Winterhalter, creator of the bytecode manipulation tool Byte Buddy, provides detailed guidance on how to easily create Java agents using Byte Buddy.

Rafael Winterhalter
on Dec 08, 2015
Development

Go in Action - Review and Q&A with the Author

Go in Action is a new book from Manning that aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Go, both its syntax and implementation, and its most common idioms. InfoQ has spoken with William Kennedy, author of the book.

Sergio De Simone
on Dec 04, 2015
Development

Effective Ruby LiveLessons - An Interview with Sam Phippen

Effective Ruby LiveLessons by Sam Phippen is a series of video lectures explaining best practices used by expert Rubyists targeting all levels of Ruby programmers. The video lessons contain hands-on demonstrations to help the viewer understand how each item is put into action. InfoQ spoke with the author about the lessons learned from the video and Ruby on Rails best practices.

Alex Giamas
on Dec 02, 2015
Java

Java: The Missing Features

In this article, we look at some of the "missing features" of Java, as well as the work, if any to remediate those.

Ben Evans
on Nov 24, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Key Lessons Learned from Transition to NoSQL at an Online Gambling Website

In this article, author Dan Macklin discusses the transition to Riak NoSQL and Erlang based architecture coupled with Convergent Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) and lessons learned with the transition.

Dan Macklin
on Nov 21, 2015
DevOps

Q&A with Matthias Marschall on Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Update

InfoQ asked Matthias Marshall what's new in the 2nd edition of his book and his view on the evolution of the configuration management tool space.

Manuel Pais
on Nov 13, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Real-time Data Processing in AWS Cloud

In this article, author Oleksii Tymchenko discusses a bio-informatic software as a service (SaaS) product called Chorus, which was built as a public data warehousing and analytical platform for mass spectrometry data. Other features of the product include real-time visualization of raw mass-spec data.

Oleksii Tymchenko
on Nov 11, 2015
Java

Next Generation Session Management with Spring Session

Spring Session makes it easy to write horizontally scalable cloud applications, offload session state into specialized external session stores, and take advantage of current technologies such as WebSockets. This article takes a deep dive into using Spring Session to maximize these benefits, avoiding the limitations of traditional session management employed by enterprise Java

Adib Saikali
on Nov 10, 2015
Culture & Methods

Delivering Software with Water-Scrum-Fall

Water-Scrum-fall is usually described as an hybrid agile way of working. According to Andy Hiles water-Scrum-fall is a gated and phased delivery approach for software where Scrum is used as the main development management method. It can be used as a stepping stone to agility, to become a living breathing agile organisation.

Ben Linders
on Nov 07, 2015