InfoQ Homepage Architecture & Design Content on InfoQ
-
/articles/customer-journey-mapping/en/smallimage/logo-agile.jpeg)
Service Design: Consumer Journey Mapping
A process of identifying key customer interactions with the product. This is a holistic approach to envisioning customer interactions at various touchpoints through service design tools to help organizations to understand, visualize and envision their new or existing customer there by aligning their products.
-
/articles/microservices-in-practice/en/smallimage/logo-small.jpg)
Virtual Panel: Microservices in Practice
Microservices have gone from development practices for the select few to something many developers in a range of organisations are embracing. Some believe that technologies that can assist with developing and adopting microservices are ineffective without associated changes within the organisations. We spoke with panelists to get different perspectives on the state of the art with microservices.
-
/articles/blockchain-outlive-bitcoin/en/smallimage/logo-ieee.jpeg)
Might the Blockchain Outlive Bitcoin?
Crypto-currency remains controversial, and Bitcoin, a leading open source initiative to create an alternative form of currency, is at the center of this controversy. Here, the author provides an update on the state of Bitcoin in particular, and examines the future of crypto-currency in general.
-
/articles/Building-Reactive-Applications-with-Akka/en/smallimage/Logo-java.jpg)
Building Reactive Applications with Akka Actors and Java 8
Akka and Java 8 make it possible to create distributed microservice-based systems that just a few years ago were the stuff of dreams. Actor based systems enable developers to create quickly evolving microservice architectures that can elastically scale systems to support huge volumes of data.
-
/articles/virtual-panel-dotnet-future/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
Virtual Panel: What's Next for .NET?
A lot happened in the last year in the .NET ecosystem. Putting aside the details, the bigger picture is difficult to grasp. There is movement in all aspects: cross-platform, cloud, mobile, web apps and universal apps. Developers wonder where all of this is going to lead and what will be required to get there.
-
/articles/microservices-aggregates-events-cqrs-part-2-richardson/en/smallimage/logo-cqrs.jpg)
Developing Transactional Microservices Using Aggregates, Event Sourcing and CQRS - Part 2
This article concludes the description of a way to develop microservices using Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing and Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS). The practical considerations and benefits of this approach are compared with other options.
-
/articles/Frans-Bouma-Interview/en/smallimage/logo-net.jpg)
Interview with Entity Modelling Tool Creator, Frans Bouma
Our first .NET interview of the year is with Frans Bouma of the entity modeling tool LLBLGen Pro. This tool has been around for almost as long as .NET itself, but being a commercial product it isn’t as well-known as the free alternatives.
-
/articles/cassandra-2nd-edition-book-review/en/smallimage/cover.jpg)
Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition Book Review and Interview
Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition book authored by Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt covers the Cassandra NoSQL database version 3.0. Authors discuss several different important topics related to this popular database, including data modeling and Cassandra architecture. InfoQ spoke with Jeff Carpenter about the book and Cassandra database current features and future roadmap.
-
/articles/tool-integration-hard-truth/en/smallimage/GettyImages-480500648.jpg)
How Difficult Can It Be to Integrate Software Development Tools? The Hard Truth
Integrating tools used in software development and delivery is very hard. Getting endpoints to inter-operate is not a purely technical challenge, it’s more of a business problem. While there are a few choices in selecting the technical integration infrastructure (integration via APIs or at the database layer), the real challenges have more to do with friction caused by the dissimilarities.
-
/articles/architectural-design-principles/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
Harnessing the Power of Architectural Design Principles
Architecture principles epitomize architecture's function: to clearly define the necessary constraints on a system's design without prescriptively defining all the design details. A good set of principles can provide context and justification for design decisions and can foster team collaboration and communication.
-
/articles/navigating-microservices-architecture/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
Navigating the Ins and Outs of a Microservice Architecture (MSA)
A microservices architectures (MSA) is increasingly becoming an important way to deliver efficient functionality, but are just one aspect of a much larger picture. A good MSA implementation requires a solid understanding and design of both the inner architecture and the outer architecture of the system.
-
/articles/zalando-apis-delivery-radical-agility/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
How Zalando Delivers APIs with Radical Agility
InfoQ interviewed Thomas Fraustein, architect at Zalando, about his team’s radical agility development organization that is optimized for an API-first approach. He explains what an API-first approach is, and provides tips on building good APIs for scalable microservice architectures where a large number of services are offered efficiently.