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Q&A with Frederic Laloux on Reinventing Organizations

In the book reinventing organizations Frederic Laloux researched 12 organizations who use fundamentally new ways to manage work and their employees. InfoQ interviewed Frederic about how evolutionary-teal organizations manage themselves, practices for start-ups, self-organizing organizations, renewing approaches for managing performance of employees and results from evolutionary-teal organizations.

Ben Linders
on Feb 06, 2015
React.js in Real Life at Codecademy

Codecademy recently switched to React.js for their front-end learning environment. While many React examples are basic, author Bonnie Eisenman goes over how to use React in a large, critical environment.

Bonnie Eisenman
on Feb 04, 2015
Java

Scala in Large Scale Systems

This is the first installment in a series about using Scala for large-scale data stores and analytics. Dave Hrycyszyn speaks to Andrew Jayne, senior software engineer at McLaren Applied Technologies, about the experience of building a custom high-performance data store in Scala.

Dave Hrycyszyn
on Feb 03, 2015
Spring Framework 4 and Java 8

Java 8 shipped with new language features and libraries and Spring 4.x is already supporting many of these. Some of the new Java 8 features don’t have an impact on Spring and can just be used as is, while other Java 8 features require Spring to explicitly support them. This article will walk you through the new Java 8 features that are supported by Spring 4.0 and 4.1.

Adib Saikali
on Jan 28, 2015
Building a Mars Rover Application with DynamoDB

DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that aims to be easily managed, so you don't have to worry about administrative burdens such as operating and scaling. This article shows how to use Amazon DynamoDB to create a Mars Rover application. You can use the same concepts described in this post to build your own web application.

Daniela Miao Kenta Yasukawa
on Jan 25, 2015
Java

5 Advanced Java Debugging Techniques Every Developer Should Know About

With architectures becoming more distributed and code more asynchronous, pinpointing and resolving errors in production is harder than ever. In this article we investigate five advanced techniques that can help you get to the root cause of painful bugs in production more quickly, without adding material overhead.

Tal Weiss
on Jan 20, 2015
InfoQ Talks to Azul Systems Gil Tene Part 2

In this part 2 of InfoQ's conversation with Gil Tene of Azul Systems, Gil discusses their latest engineering project aimed at bring better low-level memory layout control to Java, and the requirement modern high-performance Java applications have for this solution.

Ben Evans
on Jan 17, 2015
Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals. Part 3

The third article of the Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals series is focused on very powerful tool which is a Conversation Structure. Michael explains the structure and the mechanics of what people call “a talk”, shows how to control the conversation flow and how to navigate through a conversation on purpose.

Michał Bartyzel
on Jan 16, 2015
InfoQ Talks to Azul Systems Gil Tene about Zing, Zulu, and New Releases

Gil Tene of Azul Systems talks about shipping their Java 8 compatible release, the need for certified builds and the problem with the current approach to Java taken by Docker.

Ben Evans
on Jan 06, 2015
Java 9 and Beyond. Oracle's Brian Goetz and John Rose Glimpse into the Future

Oracle's Brian Goetz (Java Language Architect) and John Rose (JVM Architect) take us on a deep-dive discussion about some of the technologies and features being discussed for Java 9 and beyond.

Ben Evans
on Jan 04, 2015
Lessons Learned by Scaling Android Apps - AnDevCon Panel Summary

At the last AnDevCon, Doug Bateman moderated a panel focused on what it takes to build Android apps that scale up to millions of global users. This included team management, testing and design for testability, feature and release management, support, open source contributions, alternative architectures, and more.

Sergio De Simone
on Jan 02, 2015
Visual Basic 14 Language Features

Visual Basic, just like Visual Studio, will be skipping directly from version 12 to version 14. Though many of these features are also new to C#, there are quite a few enhancements meant specifically to smooth some of VB’s rough edges. Here are some of the more interesting we were able to find.

Jonathan Allen
on Dec 27, 2014