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  • Interview with Ole Jepsen on Leadership in Agile

    Good leaders create an environment where self-organizing teams can thrive and create great products and services to delight their customers: that is what Ole Jepsen explains in this interview. At the XP Days Benelux conference he talked about truly leading people and the subtle but important differences between taking and giving control.

    Ben Linders
    on Jan 20, 2014

  • Non-functional Requirements in Architectural Decision Making

    In this article, authors present an empirical study based on a survey about the software architecture practices for managing non-functional requirements (NFRs) and decision making in software development process. They also discuss about how these requirements are elicited, documented, and validated at different organizations.

    David Ameller Claudia Ayala Xavier Franch Jordi Cabot
    on Jan 17, 2014

  • Author Q&A: Patterns of Information Management

    Mandy Chessell and Harald Smith have written a book titles Patterns of Information Management in which they present approaches to structuring and managing information assets based on their experiences across a range of customers. They use a Patterns approach to identify ways of addressing information problems which are common to many of the organisations they have worked with.

    Shane Hastie
    on Jan 16, 2014

  • Minding the API Hierarchy of Needs with RAML and APIkit

    Reza Shafii explains how to satisfy two fundamental needs of API design and implementation, as defined by the API hierarchy of needs, with RAML, API Designer and APIkit.

    Reza Shafii
    on Jan 15, 2014

  • Discover and Diagnose Java Concurrency Problems Using Contemplate's ThreadSafe

    Writing Java software that correctly and safely makes use of concurrency requires careful thought. Software that incorrectly accounts for concurrency can contain intermittent defects that elude even the most rigorous testing regimes. Static analysis tools can analyze source code or compiled bytecode to discover latent bugs hidden within code, long before it is executed.

    Robert Atkey
    on Jan 14, 2014

  • Intelligent Evolution: Making Change Work

    Some 80% of all improvement and change programmes fail: they did not achieve the expected results, the investment in the change programme was greater than the value achieved, “improvements” were seen as mostly bureaucratic, or changes were abandoned soon after the implementation. Intelligent Evolution ensures long-term business success rather than short-term satisfaction of a standard or theory.

    Peter Leeson
    on Jan 13, 2014

  • Preparing for Your First MongoDB Deployment: Backup and Security

    This article we focuses on the database backup tools and security policies when deploying MongoDB NoSQL databases. Topics like cloud backups with MongoDB Management Service (MMS), authentication, and authorization are covered.

    Mat Keep
    on Jan 05, 2014

  • Design Patterns: Magic or Myth?

    In this article, author discusses the effectiveness of the usage of design patterns in software development. The analysis is based on surveys and mapping studies conducted to indicate which patterns were considered useful under what circumstances.

    David Budgen
    on Jan 04, 2014

  • Pragmatic Techniques for Maintaining a Legacy Application

    Maintaining a legacy application can make you feel like mice in a maze. In this article Ping Chen shares her experiences on how to pragmatically maintain a large legacy application. "Pragmatic” is the operative word; since a legacy application can have lots of technical debt, one has to be strategic in choosing the right battles.

    Chen Ping
    on Jan 02, 2014

  • Monty Taylor and Jim Blair on CI and Test Automation at OpenStack

    Monty Taylor and James Blair talk about the build and test challenges they face at OpenStack, and how they managed to tackle them. Managing hundreds of VMs on public clouds, integrating up to 400 commits a day and running thousands of test jobs on them are some of the challenges described.

    Sai Yang
    on Dec 29, 2013

  • Building a Real-time, Personalized Recommendation System with Kiji

    Jon Natkins explains in this article how to create a personalized recommendation system fed with large amounts of real-time data using Kiji, which leverages HBase, Avro, Map-Reduce and Scalding.

    Jon Natkins
    on Dec 26, 2013

  • Visualizing Java Garbage Collection

    Garbage Collection, like Backgammon takes minutes to learn and a lifetime to master. In this article Master trainer/consultant Ben Evans summarizes his recent InfoQ presentation "Visualizing Garbage Collection" where he discusses Garbage Collection from the ground up.

    Ben Evans
    on Dec 25, 2013
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