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Jonah Kowall on Application Performance Monitoring and Management

Application Performance Management (APM) focuses on monitoring and managing the performance and availability of software applications running in an enterprise. Jonah Kowall from Gartner team co-authored the Gartner Magic Quadrant report on Application Performance Monitoring. InfoQ spoke with Jonah about the APM space, techniques and tools and emerging trends in this area.

Srini Penchikala
on Feb 15, 2013
Automating Data Protection Across the Enterprise

This article builds on the foundational Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing (RC3) architecture for application security in the cloud by defining a Data Encryption Infrastructure(DEI) which is not application specific. DEI encompasses technology components and an application architecture that governs the protection of sensitive data within an enterprise.

Arshad Noor
on Feb 07, 2013
Designing and Implementing Hypermedia APIs

This article (the first in a four-part series) talks briefly about the concept of using hypermedia as an application programming interface (API) and how to design a hypermedia type to use as a basis for your API. In upcoming weekly installments of the series, details of implementing hypermedia servers and clients will be reviewed along with techniques for evolving the API safely over time.

Mike Amundsen
on Feb 05, 2013
The Datomic Information Model

Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, explains the information model of Datomic - a new database designed as a composition of simple services, combining the capabilities of RDBMS and scalability of NoSQL.

Rich Hickey
on Feb 01, 2013
Interview and Book Review: A practical approach to large-scale Agile development

A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development tells the story about applying agile and lean principles in a large scale software development program for the HP laserjet futuresmart firmware. An interview with with two of the authors, Gary Gruver and Mike Young, about agile principles, managing change, collaboration between distributed teams, and the benefits of using agile.

Ben Linders
on Jan 25, 2013
Sharing Code in WCF without Code Generation

One of the principal problems with normal WCF development is code reuse. No matter how well you design your classes on the server, once the proxy generator has touched them you get nothing but simple DTOs. This article shows how to bypass the proxy generator so that your client and server can share code.

Jonathan Allen
on Jan 23, 2013
Getting Started with Shuttle Service Bus

Shuttle Service Bus is a .NET open source framework providing distribution support for command and event messaging useful in building an EDA system. This article introduces Shuttle and a case study of its use in production.

Eben Roux
on Jan 21, 2013
Designing a World at Your Fingertips: A Look at Mobile User Interfaces

User interface (UI) is a critical component of any successful mobile application. In this article, Forrest Shull presents his interview discussion with Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers about mobile UI principles and other areas of ongoing research including multiple devices, privacy and security, and voice. He also talks about the challenges when developing mobile user interfaces.

Forrest Shull
on Jan 16, 2013
Java EE Mobile Application Development using the AeroGear Framework

AeroGear is a mobile development framework from JBoss that supports mobile web, hybrid, native apps on iOS & Android, and server side resources with extensions into existing projects like RESTEasy. Jay Balunas and Marius Bogoevici spoke at JavaOne 2012 Conference about AeroGear framework. InfoQ caught up with them and Anil Saldhana to speak about mobile development using AeroGear.

Srini Penchikala
on Jan 10, 2013
Designing Next-Generation Massively Multithreaded Architectures for Irregular Applications

In this article, authors discuss Cray XMT, a massively multithreaded architecture framework that addresses the needs of irregular data-intensive applications in emerging fields like bioinformatics, semantic databases, natural language processing, and social network analysis. They also compare this approach with other multithreaded architectures such as GPUs and UltraSPARC processors.

Oreste Villa Antonino Tumeo Simone Secchi
on Dec 31, 2012
Apache Crunch: A Java Library for Easier MapReduce Programming

In his new article Josh Wills introduces Crunch - a new Apache incubating project providing a Java library for creating MapReduce pipelines. Crunch is based on a set of high level abstractions simplifying MapReduce applications design and provides library of patterns to implement common tasks like data joins, aggregations, and sorting.

Josh Wills
on Dec 27, 2012
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Interview With Demis Bellot, Project Lead of ServiceStack - Part 2

ServiceStack is an Opensource .NET and Mono REST Web Services framework. InfoQ had the opportunity to get insights from Demis Bellot about the project. In Part 2 of this two-part interview, we learn more about ServiceStack features and the role of Microsoft and Mono in open source .NET.

Roopesh Shenoy
on Dec 24, 2012

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