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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.

Sebastian Holst
on Dec 27, 2011
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.

Mark Seemann
on Dec 19, 2011
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.

Arshad Noor
on Dec 16, 2011
Everything Is PaaSible

In this article, William Vambenepe takes a look at PaaS as an enabler; especially in the enterprise; that will afford business advantages in terms of cost, time to market and choice of tools. He suggests that the paradigm shift from machine-centric design to PaaS is a big leap in application design, that will enable application developers to always use the right tool for the job.

William Vambenepe
on Dec 15, 2011
Rick Kazman on Evaluating Software Architectures

Evaluating software architectures is a critical part of the software architecture lifecycle processes. The book "Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies" covers the software architecture evaluation topic in detail focusing on different architecture evaluation frameworks. InfoQ spoke with Rick Kazman, co-author of the book on the architecture evaluation topic.

Srini Penchikala
on Dec 13, 2011
Virtual Panel: PaaS Present and Future

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a delivery of a computing platform over the web. PaaS enables agility, and provides a low cost alternative to buying and managing complex software and/or hardware. InfoQ had a chance to conduct a virtual panel to explore the world of PaaS, the different flavors that it comes in, its relevance in the enterprise and get a sense for the future of PaaS ecosystem.

Dilip Krishnan
on Dec 09, 2011
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2011

This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Advancing Agile to the Next stage with Lean, Agile in the Midlife, Architecture Case Studies, Beautiful Code, Big Data and NoSQL, Functional Web, Cross Platform Mobile Development, HTML5 & JavaScript, Systems That Never Stop and many more!

Abel Avram
on Dec 09, 2011
A Java Developer’s Guide to PaaS

This article reviews and compares 6 leading vendors of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions for Java developers, together with 3 up and coming vendors mentioned at the end of the article. After reading it, you will learn different technical and business approaches of Java PaaS, and then decide for yourself which vendor provides the best platform for your needs.

Michael Yuan
on Dec 08, 2011
Introduction to Cloud Security Architecture from a Cloud Consumer's Perspective

Security concerns are the number one barrier to cloud services adoption. How do we evaluate a vendor's solution? What is an optimal security architecture? What are consumer versus provider responsibilities? What are industry standard patterns in this regard? This article answers some of these questions based on first hand experience dealing with large scale cloud adoption.

Subra Kumaraswamy
on Dec 07, 2011
Exploring Hadoop OutputFormat

As more companies adopt Hadoop, its integration with other applications is becoming more important. A key to such integration is usage of the appropriate OutputFormat allowing to produce output data in a form most appropriate for other applications.

Jim.Blomo
on Dec 07, 2011
Trust is good, Control is better - Software Architecture Assessment

Testing is an important means to obtain information about implementations. Likewise, code reviews help to keep the code quality high. What is very common for code, gets sometimes neglected for software architecture. But how can a project team test the architecture itself? Software architecture assessment represents an effective approach for introspecting and assessing software design.

Michael Stal
on Nov 29, 2011
Comparison of Intrusion Tolerant System Architectures

In this IEEE article, authors Quyen L. Nguyen and Arun Sood discuss three types of intrusion tolerant system (ITS) architectures and their efficiency for intrusion tolerance and survivability. For the ITS architectures, they propose a taxonomy with four categories: detection triggered, algorithm driven, recovery based, and hybrid.

Quyen L. Nguyen Arun Sood
on Nov 25, 2011

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