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Pattern-Based Architecture Reviews
In this IEEE article, authors Neil Harrison and Paris Avgeriou discuss a pattern-based architecture review (PBAR) process to help with system-wide quality attributes. They also discuss how PBAR approach helps with agile practices like frequent releases, changes for user needs, and lightweight documentation. They illustrate the benefits of PBAR process with a real-world project.
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Interview: Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives
Nick Rozanski and Eoin Woods have continued their journey of building a comprehensive handbook on Systems Software architecture with the publication of the second edition of Software Systems Architecture. InfoQ spoke to the authors on a couple of new topics, the System Context viewpoint and Agile, that are covered in the latest edition.
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Interview and Book Excerpt: Service Design Patterns
"Service Design Patterns" catalogs design patterns that cover the entire lifecycle of web services. This book is the latest addition to the Martin Fowler signature series which also contains a section on consumer driven contracts contributed by Ian Robinson. InfoQ talked to Rob Daigneau, the author of the book, regarding various topics related to the core idea behind "Service Design Patterns".
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Codesign Challenges for Exascale Systems: Performance, Power, and Reliability
In this IEEE article, authors talks about how a codesign methodology using modeling can benefit exascale computing systems with improved performance, power efficiency, and reliability. The five factors discussed in the codesign process are algorithms, application, programming model, runtime system, and hardware architecture.
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Implementing Lucene Spatial Support
Lucene geospatial extension proposed in this article is based on a two level search – first level search is based on Cartesian Grid search and the second level implements shape specific spatial calculations
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Design for Testability – The True Story
Testing is a major activity in any development lifecycle - a large part of a project budget is spent on it. If we want to effectively use it, the ease of testing should be addressed from the early stages of building the system.
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Interview and Book Review: Programming Concurrency on the JVM
In his latest book "Programming Concurrency on the JVM" author Venkat Subramaniam talks about the concurrency techniques using different JVM programming languages. He also discusses Software Transactional Memory (STM) and Actor-based Concurrency. InfoQ spoke with Venkat about his new book.
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Software Engineering Meets Services and Cloud Computing
In this IEEE article, authors Stephen Yau and Ho An talk about application development using service-oriented architecture and cloud computing technologies. They also discuss application development challenges like security in a multi-tenant environment, quality-of-service monitoring, and mobile computing.
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Integrating Lucene with HBase
The article describes overall design and implementation of integrating Lucene search library with HBase back end. It describes integration architecture, implementation and HBase tables design
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The Rise of Application Analytics: A New Game Demands New Rules
When developers know how their applications are really being used “in the wild,” they will build better software, more efficiently, and with greater confidence. Sebastian Holst shows you how using application analytics.
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Succeeding with Dependency Injection
While the principal pattern is easy to understand it can be difficult to succeed with Dependency Injection without considering the larger context. DI is an application of the principle of Inversion of Control and to succeed with IoC you’ll also need to invert your thinking. This article provides a sketch of the mental model you need to adopt to succeed with DI.
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Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing: Rethinking web application architectures for the cloud
Not all data is sensitive and hence an equal and balanced investment in securing all data categories is not justified. This article presents an architecture that leverages cloud-computing, cloud-storage and enterprise key-management Infrastructure(EKMI) to lower costs while complying to data-security regulations.