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Interview with Sandi Metz on Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

On occasion of the second edition of her book “Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer”, InfoQ talked with Sandi about how her book was received, learning from open source code, making sensible use of code analysis tools and other topics.

Manuel Pais
on Jun 28, 2013
Adding Flexibility to your REST Implementation with Yoga

In cases when one desires to provide fine-grained control over the structure of the document responses based on the needs of their clients, Yoga is an open source alternative that integrates with existing REST applications. Yoga provides clients the ability to use selectors, which can be used as projection, selection and join relational operators.

Corby Page
on Jun 27, 2013
Cassandra Mythology

In this article, author Jonathan Ellis addresses the concerns of using Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, in terms of architecture, deployment and configuration, performance, query language (CQL), and database maturity.

Jonathan Ellis
on Jun 26, 2013
Virtual Panel: Performance Tuning Face-Off

In the world of application delivery, performance tuning still seems to elude the mainstream. InfoQ spoke to five luminaries of the performance monitoring space about why and what can be done. The result was quite an active debate. Members of the virtual panel: • Ben Evans • Charlie Hunt • Kirk Pepperdine • Martin Thompson • Monica Beckwith

Victor Grazi
on Jun 25, 2013
Interview with Eduardo Miranda about Estimating and Planning Agile Projects

Eduardo Miranda, associate professor at the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University explains the need for planning in agile projects, and describes various planning techniques that can be used with agile. He also looks on the impact of agile on project management offices and on the role of project managers in agile projects.

Ben Linders
on Jun 24, 2013
Java Garbage Collection Distilled

CMS, G1, Young Gen, New Gen, Old Gen, Eden, and the hundreds of JVM start-up flags... does this all baffle you when trying to tune the garbage collector to get the required throughput and latency from your Java application? Don’t worry, you are not alone. This article will attempt to explain the tradeoffs when choosing and tuning garbage collection algorithms for a particular workload.

Martin Thompson
on Jun 17, 2013
Graph Databases - Book Review and Interview

"Graph Databases" book covers the Graph based NoSQL database technology and different options available for storing "Connected Data" in the real world applications. InfoQ spoke with co-authors Ian Robinson and Jim Webber about the book, role of Graph Databases in the NoSQL database space, and what’s coming up in the Graph Databases.

Srini Penchikala
on Jun 07, 2013
Mike Barlow on Real-Time Big Data Analytics

"Real-Time Big Data Analytics: Emerging Architecture" white paper authored by Mike Barlow covers big data analytics topic and how real-time big data analytics (RTBDA) are different from traditional analytics. InfoQ spoke with Mike about the current state of real-time big data analytics and the emerging trends in the Big Data space like Decision Science.

Srini Penchikala
on Jun 01, 2013
Software Development: How the Traditional Contract Model Increases the Risk of Failure

Susan Atkinson and Gabrielle Benefield argue that the standard contract model for software development is based on outdated and flawed assumptions, and that this is contributing to the high rates of failure in IT projects, regardless of whether the IT projects are resourced internally or outsourced to a third party. The contract model is in need of a total overhaul.

Gabrielle Benefield Susan Atkinson
on May 28, 2013
Project Lambda from the Inside. An Interview with Brian Goetz

JSR-335: Project Lambda has been called the "defining" project in Java 8. InfoQ spoke to Oracle's Brian Goetz, JSR 335 spec lead about his observations on Project Lambda from the inside.

Victor Grazi
on May 27, 2013
There is a Cowboy in my Domain! - Implementing Domain Driven Design Review and Interview

Implementing Domain Driven Design, has brought clarity to an important but little understood area of software design. As a measure of Software Design literature, Vaughn's work is educational and fun. With real world code samples and sage advice, IDDD guides the reader through the sometimes murky waters of DDD and helps them gain the insight required to start a DDD journey of their own.

Harry Brumleve
on May 14, 2013
Native Cross-Platform Apps with Tabris

Tabris is the first Java toolkit for the cross-platform development of native mobile applications. It combines native user experience with tailor-made, native controls and functions. But what exactly does native mean?

Holger Staudacher Jochen Krause
on May 07, 2013

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