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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
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
Interview and Book Review: Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns

"Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns" catalogs many common patterns in modern HTML5 applications. InfoQ talked to one author, Dionysios Synodinos, about the book and working with HTML5.

Werner Schuster
on Dec 02, 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
Virtual Panel: Cloud Services Governance

Governance plays an indisputably important role in maintaining and guiding the implementation of an architectural vision. The advent of cloud computing has changed the architectural landscape affecting the needs and demands of existing governance programs. InfoQ presents a virtual panel discussion with six leading experts on the current state and future of cloud services governance.

Jeevak Kasarkod
on Nov 24, 2011
Agile Modeling: Enhancing Communication and Understanding

Modeling supports us in communicating and understanding when we create software solutions. As communication and understanding are two of the most critical aspects of delivering software solutions - modeling is a valuable tool that should not be overlooked. Agile Modeling adheres to and aligns with Agile values and principles and should be one of the practices within your Agile toolkit.

Lee Ackerman
on Nov 21, 2011
Enterprise Shared Services and the Cloud

As an industry, we have converged onto a standard three-layered service model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) to describe cloud computing, with each layer defined in terms of the operational control capabilities it offers. This is unlike, enterprise shared services, which have unique characteristics around ownership, funding and operations, and they span SaaS and PaaS layers, as we explore the differences.

Ganesh Prasad
on Nov 16, 2011
Virtual Panel: Specification by Example, Executable Specifications, Scenarios and Feature Injection

In the last couple of years terms like Specification by Example, Executable Specifications and Feature Injection have showed up quite frequently in the community, often in relation to Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) or tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow. InfoQ have talked to some of the leading experts in this domain about what these practices are and how they relate to BDD.

Jon Arild Tørresdal
on Nov 10, 2011

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