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Restify and Mobilize Your Data

Val Huber explains creating a RESTful API from an existing database schema, extending the API to define multi-table hierarchical resources, and adding behavior using declarative reactive expressions.

Val Huber
on May 21, 2014
Reactive Cloud Actors: An Evolvable Web of Events

Reactive Cloud Actors are an utilization of Carl Hewitt's Actor model which can be used to leverage the power of modern distributed systems. This article demonstrates an implementation of Reactive Cloud Actors, considering a complex business scenario that is delivered in an elegant and thoughtful solution.

Ali Kheyrollahi
on May 19, 2014
Russ Miles on Antifragility and Microservices

Currently, Antifragility and Microservices are trending topics and this might be a hint that there are new architectural paradigms or design patterns on their way for building application systems.. We're discussing these new concepts with Russ Miles to find out what they are good for and how to apply them in an architect's or developer's daily business - for existing applications and those to come

Ralph Winzinger
on May 13, 2014
How Functional is Java 8?

It's been said that Java 8 is bringing Functional Programming to Java. In this article Ben Evans discusses what it means to be functional. By looking at the evolution of Java - particularly its type system, we can see how the new features of Java 8, especially lambda expressions, change the landscape, and provide some key benefits of the functional programming style.

Ben Evans
on May 12, 2014
Database Continuous Delivery

The database creates a real challenge for automation, hence participation in continuous processes. Scripting database objects change-scripts into traditional version or using 'compare & sync' tools is either an inefficient or risky thing to automate, as the two concepts are unaware of the other. A better solution needs to be implemented in the shape of Continuous Delivery and DevOps for database.

Yaniv Yehuda
on May 08, 2014
Type Annotations in Java 8: Tools and Opportunities

With Java 8, annotations can be written not only on declarations, but on any use of a type such as types in declarations, generics, and casts. This article introduces the new type annotation syntax and practical tools to boost productivity and build higher-quality software.

Todd Schiller
on May 05, 2014
The Elusive Dependency

Architecture models how the system and its elements hang together. Yet the true complexity of architectural dependencies can be highly elusive. We share architectural information when we build integrated systems creating complex and hard to find dependencies. This article introduces a simple modelling approach to analyse of architectural dependencies within complex technology environments.

John Brondum
on May 01, 2014
"In Search of Certainty" - Book Review and Interview with Mark Burgess

"In Search of Certainty - The Science of Our Information Infrastructure", written by CFEngine's creator, Mark Burgess, takes us into a fascinating journey through physics, biology and what we can learn from them and apply to the information infrastructure realm. InfoQ took the opportunity to discuss the book with the author.

João Miranda
on Apr 30, 2014
Kanban on Track - Evolutionary Change Management at the Swiss Railways

Swiss Railways (Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, SBB) employed Kanban to transform a department from disappointing performance to predictable efficiency through a series of incremental improvements. The evolutionary nature of Kanban gained traction with early quick wins and resulted in better management and greater responsiveness to change. This is a brief report of their two year journey.

Mike Beyer Sigi Kaltenecker
on Apr 28, 2014
What is Apache Tez?

Apache Tez is a new distributed execution framework that is targeted to-wards data-processing applications on Hadoop. But what exactly is it? How does it work? In the presentation, “Apache Tez: Accelerating Hadoop Query Processing”, Bikas Saha and Arun Murthy discuss Tez’s design, highlight some of its features and share initial results obtained by making Hive use Tez instead of MapReduce.

Roopesh Shenoy
on Apr 25, 2014
Intuitive, Robust Date and Time Handling, Finally Comes to Java

Date and time are fundamental concepts to many applications, yet Java SE had no good API to handle them; until now! With Java SE 8, java.time provides a well-structured API to cover date and time. In this article, JSR-310 (Java Date and Time API's) spec-lead and Jodatime author Stephen Colbourne discusses the new API's as well as the background for Date and Time handling in Java 8.

Stephen Colebourne
on Apr 21, 2014
Twenty Years of Patterns’ Impact

In this article, authors talk about the impact of pattern languages on the software design community over the past 20 years. They discuss patterns like Enterprise Integration Patterns, open source ESBs and patterns as a design tool.

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock Olaf Zimmermann Gregor Hohpe Joseph W. Yoder
on Apr 19, 2014

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