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Continuous Integration with MSBuild and Jenkins – Part 2
In part one we looked at using MSBuild in a general sense. Part 2 we apply that knowledge to a specific continuous integration server, namely Jenkins. We choose Jenkins because it is an open source project that supports a wide variety of projects, making it ideal for heterogeneous environments.
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Testing in the Cloud: Exploring the Practice
In this article, authors discuss the effects of cloud-based testing in software delivery process. They talk about cloud-based testing services such as performance testing and web-based application testing. They also share the results from their interviews with different organizations and their use of cloud in testing and suggest a cloud-based testing roadmap.
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Hadoop and Metadata (Removing the Impedance Mis-match)
A new Apache HCatalog project is a table and storage management layer for Hadoop that enables different data processing tools – Pig, MapReduce, and Hive – to more easily inter-operate data. HCatalog’s presents users with a relational view of data and ensures that users need not worry about where or in what format their data is stored – RCFile format, text files, or sequence files.
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Continuous Integration with MSBuild and Jenkins – Part 1
In this first of a two-part series, Mustafa Saeed Haji Ali looks at implementing a continuous integration system using MSBuild. Part two will how to integrate this into Jenkins, an extendable continuous integration server with support for a wide variety of operating systems and programming languages.
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Jason Zander on Visual Studio's Past, Present, and Future
InfoQ recently had an exclusive interview with Microsoft's Jason Zander to discuss the latest release of Visual Studio and the state of the project as a whole. The wide ranging talk covered everything from C99/C+11 standards compliance plans, to cross-platform support and how Microsoft tries to balance the needs of corporate developers with those of smaller, independent users.
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CAP and Cloud Data Management
In this article, author Raghu Ramakrishnan discusses data management in the cloud and the tradeoff between consistency, availability and partition tolerance aspects of CAP theorem, which has become a key design factor in large scale data management systems. He also talks about Yahoo PNUTS system case study and concepts of Relaxed and Timeline consistency and Selective record replication.
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Transitioning from RDBMS to NoSQL. Interview with Couchbase’s Dipti Borkar
While relational databases have been used for decades to store data, and they still represent a viable solution for many use cases, NoSQL is being chosen today especially for scalability and performance reasons. This article contains an interview with Dipti Borkar, Director of Product Management at Couchbase, on the challenges, benefits and the process of migrating from RDBMS to NoSQL.
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SaaS-ify Legacy Applications
Legacy applications can be difficult to move to the cloud, yet you may want to include them in your IT-as-a-Service strategy. This article discusses an approach to wrapping legacy applications for delivery as Software-as-a-Service.
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Automated Error Reporting: The Gateway to Better Quality
Ignorance might be bliss, but it goes straight to the bottom line when it comes to software bugs. Those who can ferret out bugs and improve the quality of their software will be rewarded with greater customer trust, higher renewal rates, lower maintenance costs, and fewer opportunities for the competition. Laila Lotfi explains how automated error reporting aids in this endeavor.
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The Pragmatic Architect - To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
In this article, author Frank Buschmann talks about the architectural importance of the interaction between system components than within the components. He discusses three secrets of pragmatic architects: Uncover Hidden Domain Concepts, Be Where Things Meet and Use Uncertainty as a Driver.
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Continuous Mobile Application Testing
Given the onslaught of mobile devices and apps into the SDLC, fingers and eyeballs seem to be the only way apps can be tested right now. But manual testing drastically slows down the development process, leaves a huge margin for error, and ultimately lowers the team’s ability to release quality software in a short amount of time. Dan Bartow of SOASTA hopes to offer something better.
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Do we really need identity propagation in SOA and Clouds?
Identity Propagation through Single Sign-On(SSO) has been assumed to be a panacea for all identity issues in SOA and Clouds. In this article, Michael Poulin raises questions around the business feasibility of propagation and proposes a delegate model of representation instead.