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Teaching Kids Java Programming

During the holiday season we think about our families, our children, and and their future. In this article, Yakov Fain give us some insight about what lead him to write his new book "Java Programming for Kids" (now available as a free download) and includes some sample chapters.

Yakov Fain
on Dec 22, 2014
Book Review and Interview: The Practice of Cloud System Administration

The new book, The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, looks at a wide range of considerations for cloud-scale systems. In this book review and interview with the authors, we look at how teams can apply proven best practices.

Richard Seroter
on Dec 18, 2014
Roy Fielding on Versioning, Hypermedia, and REST

Roy Fielding talks to Mike Amundsen about versioning on the Web, why hypermedia is a requirement in his REST style, the process of designing network software that can adapt over time, and the challenge of thinking at the scale of decades.

Mike Amundsen
on Dec 17, 2014
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Designing a Highly Available, Fault Tolerant, Hadoop Cluster with Data Isolation

As data grows exponentially, the modern Hadoop ecosystem provides not only a reliable distributed aggregation system that delivers data parallelism, but also analytics for great data insights. In this article Monica Beckwith, starting from core Hadoop components, investigates the design of a highly available, fault tolerant Hadoop cluster, adding security and data-level isolation.

Monica Beckwith
on Dec 16, 2014
Implementing Hypermedia

In this article, we'll talk about four different real-world implementations of hypermedia: how you may already be using hypermedia through image links, how GitHub uses the Link header for pagination, using hypermedia in constrained systems like iOS, and how Balanced uses hypermedia principles to build their product.

Steve Klabnik
on Dec 11, 2014
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2014

This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon San Francisco 2014 as blogged and tweeted by QCon's 1,200 attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 10 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.

Abel Avram
on Dec 08, 2014
A Web API Design Methodology

This article provides a brief overview of the design methodology covered in the book "RESTful Web APIs" by Richardson and Amundsen.

Mike Amundsen
on Dec 07, 2014
Review: Designing APIs for the Web

Mike Amundsen's video series "Designing APIs for the Web" is a straightforward dive into API design suitable for a broad set of stakeholders. The thirteen part series provides a rich blend of practical advice, new ideas & a bit of controversy to keep you on your toes. This article reviews the series so you know what to expect. It provides an overview of the content and a balanced commentary.

Mark W. Foster
on Dec 06, 2014
Apache Ignite GridGain Incubator Project - Q&A Interview with Nikita Ivanov

GridGain announced that the In-Memory Data Fabric has been accepted into Apache Incubator program as Apache Ignite. InfoQ spoke with Nikita Ivanov about their product becoming part of Apache.

Srini Penchikala
on Dec 03, 2014
Natural Course of Refactoring – a Refactoring Workflow

This article provides ideas about how to approach refactoring based on the complexity and stability of the codebase (Feather's Quadrant) and proposes a refactoring workflow based on a four step process and some practical suggestions on how to apply it.

Mariusz Sieraczkiewicz
on Nov 30, 2014
How Well Do You Know Your Personae Non Gratae?

In this article, author discusses three techniques to defend against malicious users in software systems. These techniques includes creating personas to think strategically about the mischief a malicious user might attempt, misuse cases used to determine how the software should respond to unintended use, and activity diagrams annotated with security concerns.

Jane Cleland-Huang
on Nov 27, 2014
Making the Case for an API Roadmap

Chris Haddad explains why one should create a roadmap for an API, providing advice on avoiding common API pitfalls, creating business value and monetizing API assets.

Chris Haddad
on Nov 26, 2014

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