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Costin Leau on Elasticsearch, BigData and Hadoop

Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud. The first milestone of elasticsearch-hadoop 1.3.M1 was released last month. InfoQ spoke with Costin Leau about Elasticsearch and how it integrates with Hadoop and other Big Data technologies.

Srini Penchikala
on Nov 15, 2013
Interview with Simon Brown about Sustainable Competence

Why are some teams successful while others are less than stellar? Can teams use processes to do their work? How can managers help teams to become better? And do we need incentives to improve the quality of software? InfoQ did an interview with Simon Brown about sustainable competence for continuous improvement, balancing people and processes, and software quality and architecture.

Ben Linders
on Nov 14, 2013
Securing Servers in the Cloud: An Interview With Trend Micro

What’s the best way to protect servers in the cloud? How can you account for the transient nature of cloud servers and provide the same protection in the cloud as on on-premises? To find out, InfoQ spoke with Mark Nunnikhoven, a Principal Engineer in the Cloud & Emerging Technologies division at Trend Micro. You can find Mark on Twitter as @marknca.

Richard Seroter
on Nov 13, 2013
What to Use on the Microsoft Stack

With Microsoft’s unwillingness to officially deprecate technologies such as Silverlight, figuring out which technologies on the .NET stack have a future and which should be avoided can be challenging. To help you out, we have summarized what we know of Microsoft’s intentions when it comes to business applications.

Jonathan Allen
on Nov 11, 2013
API Business Models: 20 Models in 20 Minutes

How do you make money from APIs? In this keynote from the 2013 API Strategy Conference, John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb, reviews the different API business models that have been adopted by the worlds leading technology companies. John distills the variety of models down to four core categories and shows how API implementation aligns with different business strategies.

Saul Caganoff
on Nov 06, 2013
Java 7 Features Which Enable Java 8

In this article, Ben Evans explores some features in Java 7 which lay the groundwork for the new features in Java 8.

Ben Evans
on Oct 31, 2013
What Do You Look For In a Servant Leader?

In this article, let’s discuss the kind of qualities, preferences, and non-technical skills you might need in a servant leader, your potential Scrum Master, agile project manager, potential account manager, or whatever role you need filled.

Johanna Rothman
on Oct 29, 2013
Book Review: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition

The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition is a collaborative effort by Ronan Schwarz, Phil Dutson, James Steele and Nelson To. The authors have succeeded in providing a solid reference book. A book for mobile app developers that can serve as an authoritative guide for newbies and intermediate to expert devs for creating awesome mobile apps.

Martin Monroe
on Oct 19, 2013
PCI SSC 2013 Community Meeting Takeaways

Eric Sampson shares the industry trends and security state within the payment card industry as discussed during the PCI Security Standards Council community meeting recently held in Las Vegas.

Eric Sampson
on Oct 18, 2013
ATDD From the Trenches

A concrete example of how to get started with acceptance-test driven development on an existing code base. It is part of the solution to technical debt.

Henrik Kniberg
on Oct 17, 2013
Book Review: Learning Gerrit Code Review

Learning Gerrit Code Review presents an overview of the Gerrit review tool, from how to install and configure projects through to how to integrate with other services like GitHub and Jenkins.The book also presents the rationale behind code reviews and the benefits that it brings to projects, as well as some low-level introductions to git.

Alex Blewitt
on Oct 16, 2013
Bridging Subsidiaries With the Cloud to Create a Global API

One of the biggest challenges in modern business is how you integrate subsidiaries and present a single global view so that customers and partners find it simpler to integrate with your organisation. In this article we will discuss a fictitious sample based on a real-world scenario and look at some of the challenges and good practices that you should look to implement to be successful.

Michael Stephenson
on Oct 15, 2013