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Article Series: Cloud and "Lock-in"

With the fast-pace of cloud changes (new services, providers entering and exiting), cloud lock-in remains a popular refrain. But what does it mean, and how can you ensure you're maximizing your cloud investment while keeping portability in mind?

Richard Seroter
on Jul 01, 2016
Cloud

Approaching Lock-In from a Consultant’s Perspective: An Interview with Nicki Watt

Consultants play a major role in helping companies deliver software. How do these consultants tackle lock-in and build portable solutions? In this interview, OpenCredo's Nicki Watt tackles this topic.

Richard Seroter
on Jun 30, 2016
Architecture & Design

Q&A with Intuit's Alex Balazs

In this Q&A, Alex Balazs, VP Fellow Architect of Turbo Tax at Intuit tells us how they used Node.js to start to break apart the monolithic architecture of their legacy platform. Balazs talks about getting the people involved, the challenges they faced, and discusses how other large enterprises can benefit from their experience.

David Iffland
on Jun 29, 2016
Cloud

Multi-Cloud Is a Safety Belt for the Speed Freaks

Cloud bursting! On-premises! Hybrid cloud! Off-premises! Multi-cloud! These are phrases author Michael Coté heard over the past 10 years when covering cloud as an analyst, strategist, and now evangelist. Each of them makes logical sense, especially on a big whiteboard with boxes and arrows going to and fro. In recent times, it’s the last - multi-cloud - that he's seen in actual practice the most.

Michael Coté
on Jun 24, 2016
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Big Data Analytics with Spark Book Review and Interview

Big Data Analytics with Spark book, authored by Mohammed Guller, provides a practical guide for learning Apache Spark framework for different types of big-data analytics projects, including batch, interactive, graph, and stream data analysis as well as machine learning. InfoQ spoke with author about the book & development tools for big data applications.

Srini Penchikala
on Jun 23, 2016
Java

Configure Once, Run Everywhere: Decoupling Configuration and Runtime

Configuration is one of the most widely used cross-cutting concerns in application development. Apache Tamaya is a new incubator project that brings standardized property management to Java.

Anatole Tresch
on Jun 17, 2016
Cloud

Virtual Panel on (Cloud) Lock-In

There's no shortage of opinions on the topic of technology lock-in. InfoQ reached out to four software industry leaders to participate in a lively virtual panel on this topic: Joe Beda, Simon Crosby, Krish Subramanian, and Cloud Opinion.

Richard Seroter
on Jun 17, 2016
Cloud

Wiring Microservices with Spring Cloud

As we move towards microservice-based architectures, we're faced with an important decision: how do we wire our services together? Components in a monolithic system communicate through a simple method call, but components in a microservice system likely communicate over the network through REST, web services or some RPC-like mechanism.

Rob Harrop
on Jun 15, 2016
Cloud

Everything Is “Lock-In”: Focus on Switching Costs

Coding in Java, buying SAP, deploying OpenStack, and using Amazon Web Services: each one introduces a type of lock-in. However, it makes no difference how hard you try- some form of lock-in is unavoidable. What matters most is understanding the layers of lock-in, and how to assess and reduce your switching costs.

Richard Seroter
on Jun 08, 2016
Java

Living in the Matrix with Bytecode Manipulation

In this article we take a deep dive into two popular bytecode manipulation frameworks: Javassist & ASM. Bytecode manipulation is used in Java libraries like Spring and Hibernate, most JVM languages and even your IDE. For this reason, and because it’s really quite fun, it is a valuable skillset to learn for performing tasks that are otherwise impossible. And once you learn it, the sky's the limit!

Victor Grazi
on May 26, 2016
Mobile

A Reference Architecture for the Internet of Things (Part 2)

This is the second article of a two article series in which we try to work from the abstract level of IoT reference architectures towards the concrete architecture and implementation for selected use cases. This second article will show how to apply this architecture to real world use cases - one being in the field of smart homes, one in the field of insurance.

Daniel Karzel Hannelore Marginean Tuan-Si Tran
on May 25, 2016
Culture & Methods

The Volcano - Prioritize Work for Multiple Teams & Products

It is always a challenge to pick the correct priorities. Which one of work item A, B or C shall you do first, and why? Tomas Rybing presents the Volcano, a tool to visualize and prioritize work for multiple teams working with several products.

Tomas Rybing
on May 21, 2016

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