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Oozie Plugin for Eclipse

Oozie Eclipse plugin is a new tool for editing Apache Oozie workflows graphically inside Eclipse. Usage of this plugin allows to skip hard to develop and maintain process definition in HPDL. Instead a process graph is defined graphically by placing process actions on pallet and connecting them. An article introduces Eclipse Oozie plugin and provides an example of its usage.

Ahmed Mahran
on Oct 30, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the book Leading the Transformation

In the book Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale executives Gary Gruver and Tommy Mouser share their experiences with applying lean and agile development methodologies in enterprise development teams.

Ben Linders
on Oct 29, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A on Save our Scrum

The book Save our Scrum by Matt Heusser and Markus Gärtner provides advice for teams to implement Scrum. It explores what teams that are having difficulties doing Scrum can do to get out of trouble and find better ways to use Scrum. An interview about the knowledge level of people that are doing Scrum and "saving Scrum", pursuing business value, how Scrum fails, and adopting and tailoring Scrum.

Ben Linders
on Oct 20, 2015
Architecture & Design

UED: The Unified Execution Diagram

Today’s software applications have a lot of concurrent tasks that are distributed over multiple threads, processes, processors and PCs. This article introduces a visual modeling technique to describe and specify the application’s execution architecture. Within Philips Healthcare the Unified Execution Diagram has proven to be very useful for designing and documenting the execution architecture.

Carlo van Asma Pascal Wolkotte
on Oct 18, 2015
Culture & Methods

Toward Agile Architecture: Insights from 15 Years of ATAM Data

The authors have concluded after analyzing 15 years of Architecture Trade-Off Analysis Method (ATAM) data across 31 projects that modifiability, performance, availability, interoperability, and deployability are key quality attributes for Agile practitioners.

Ian Gorton Rick Kazman Stephany Bellomo
on Oct 17, 2015
Architecture & Design

Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model Book Review and Q&A with Vaughn Vernon

Vaughn Vernon in his new book Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model shows how this model can simplify enterprise software development. After an introduction to the basics of the actor model and tutorials on Scala and Akka the rest of the book is a patterns catalogue describing most of the patterns in the book Enterprise Integration Patterns from an actor model perspective.

Jan Stenberg
on Oct 06, 2015
Java

Case for Defaulting to G1 Garbage Collector in Java 9

In this article, GC expert Monica Beckwith makes the case for JEP 248, the proposal to make G1 the default garbage collector in OpenJDK 9.

Monica Beckwith
on Sep 29, 2015
Mobile

A Glimpse of Latest Mobile App Development Trends

Even though mobile apps are nothing special anymore, there is still quite some movement in this area. In this article, Katie Stanfield highlights some of the trends we might encounter in the near future if we think about developing mobile applications: App developers and companies will have to keep in mind topics like Big Data and app analytics, Internet of Things or enterprise app stores.

Katie Stanfield
on Sep 29, 2015
Culture & Methods

Innovation at Telefónica with Lean Startup

Creating digital products is different from building traditional telco products: the uncertainty is much higher, the way of creating value for the customer is totally different and lifecycle is much faster says Susana Jurado Apruzzese. Telefónica adapted Lean Startup to their processes, culture and organization to make it work.

Ben Linders
on Sep 28, 2015
Architecture & Design

Projecting a Modular Future

In this article, the authors discuss modularity and projectional editing concepts used to design programming languages, using a language workbench (LWB) like Jetbrains' MPS. They discuss how they used these techniques in three different domains: embedded-software development, requirements engineering, and insurance rules.

Bernd Kolb Markus Voelter Jos Warmer
on Sep 27, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

The Estimation Game - Techniques for Informed Guessing

In this article, author Carlos Bueno discusses the strategies for estimating the server capacity for big data projects and initiatives, with the help of two case studies.

Carlos Bueno
on Sep 26, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing

Based on a webinar on analytics, this article covers the topics of machine learning and cognitive computing, and how these fields are related to artificial intelligence (AI). Panelists discuss how this technology is being applied in digital marketing space and what concerns organizations have in providing machine learning services.

Seth Earley
on Sep 19, 2015

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