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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.
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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?
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Managing Technical Debt
Technical Debt is widely regarded as a bad thing that should be paid back as soon as possible, however it can be a strategy that helps balance short-term wins and long-term productivity. The article describes different ways that a project could pay back Technical Debt and what factors must be considered when deciding if you should repay, convert debt or just pay the interest.
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Interview and Video Review: Working with Big Data: Infrastructure, Algorithms, and Visualizations
Paul Dix leads a practical exploration into Big Data in this video training series. The first five lessons of the training span multiple server systems with a focus on the end to end processing of large quantities of XML data from real Stack Exchange posts. He completes the training with a lesson on developing visualizations for gaining insights from the macro level analysis of Big Data.
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9 Fallacies of Java Performance
Over the past 18 years Java has evolved into the premiere language of the enterprise. Yet cognitive fallacies persist about Java performance. In this article we examine some popular misconceptions.
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The Seven Information Smells of Domain Modelling
Domain modelling is a powerful technique that many IT professionals have in their toolkit. Unfortunately a couple of issues with domain modelling have caused it to fall out of favour over the past few years, especially in Agile circles. Two real problems with the approach are that it takes too long, and that it is prone to “analysis paralysis”. This is an approach that addresses these issues.
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Agile Software Architecture Sketches and NoUML
Understanding the software architecture of what you're building can prevent chaos and encourage collective code ownership. In the race for agility though, many teams struggle to do this, particularly since they've abandoned UML in favour of "boxes and lines" sketches. Moving fast requires good communication, but how do you do this without resorting to big design up front and UML?
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Interview with Michael Azoff from Ovum about How To Create the Agile Enterprise
Large enterprises face three challenges: to innovate and act as a start-up, to use a budgeting process that keeps the organization’s strategy in touch with changing market conditions, and to transform the whole IT department to agile. Principal analyst Michael Azoff explains Ovum’s view on creating an agile enterprise.
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The Real Question is Why?
The Agile movement has driven a revolutionary change in the way we build and deliver software solutions. In the past few years Agile frameworks have become mainstream. Agile has solved the problems of the 90's and early 2000's. Now a new kind of problem is emerging that needs an equally elegant solution, how do we build the right solution? Do we know Why we are building it?
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2013
This article presents the main takeaway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged or tweeted about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Distributed Systems / REST, The Java Developer Track, The Developer Track, Building for Clouds, Real Startups, Creative Thinking & Visual Problem-solving, Handheld Banking and many more!
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Choosing the Right ESB for Your Integration Needs
Kai Wähner explains the differences between an integration framework, an ESB and an integration suite, following with advice for selecting the right one from existing commercial and open source solutions.
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Capturing Compliance Requirements: A Pattern-Based Approach
Assuring compliance across an enterprise is critical and necessitates a holistic approach for defining a consistent set of process and system level controls. In this article, authors discuss a new pattern-based framework to capture and manage business process compliance requirements. They also talk about implementation of the framework and two case studies in banking and e-business domains.