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Updated Principles of Service Orientation

Our understanding of SOA has changed over the last 15 years including new aspects such as Service Execution Context and a re-defined notion of the Service Contract. This paper reviews and updates the Principles of Service Orientation based on the first OASIS SOA RAF standard bridging the gap between business and technology and eliminating technology-specific wording in their formulation.

Michael Poulin
on Nov 03, 2014
Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Currency?

Bitcoin currency model is getting more attention than any other digital currency proposed to date. In this article, authors analyze Bitcoin's decentralized model and discuss possible solutions to enhance its decentralization.

Vedran Capkun Srdjan Capkun Ghassan O. Karame Arthur Gervais
on Nov 01, 2014
Measuring and Improving Software Development Productivity

The book Improving Software Development Productivity contains practices, models and case studies to quantitatively support adoption of agile software development. An interview with Randall Jensen about measuring and improving productivity, contribution of agile to productivity, benefits from pair programming and teams, knowledge retention in maintenance and commandments for communication.

Ben Linders
on Oct 31, 2014
Personal UX -- Solving Unique Problems Created by Widespread Global Mobilization

Smartphone users are estimated to number 3.5 billion by 2019, and the different usages (mobile is most common during morning commutes and late at night, for example) create new challenges and opportunities. Data collection via our devices, smart-home gadgets and even our cars allows software engineers to offer increasingly personalized user experiences.

Dmytro Svarytsevych
on Oct 30, 2014
How SOA Governance (and SOA Management) Should Actually Be Done

Ganesh Prasad proposes separating governance and management in large SOA projects to make sure that right dependencies are used throughout the system in order to promote agility, lower operating costs and reduced operational risks.

Ganesh Prasad
on Oct 29, 2014
Q&A about the book Common System and Software Testing Pitfalls

The book Common System and Software Testing Pitfalls by Donald Firesmith provides descriptions of 92 pitfalls that make testing less efficient and effective. The descriptions explain what testers and stakeholders can do to avoid falling into the pitfalls and how to deal with the consequences when they have fallen into them.

Ben Linders
on Oct 28, 2014
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Sam Newman: Practical Implications of Microservices in 14 Tips

What are the practical concerns associated with running microservice systems? And what you need to know to embrace the power of smaller services without making things too hard? At last GeeCon 2014 in Krakow, Sam Newman tried to answer those questions by giving 14 tips about how microservices can interface, how the can be monitored, deployed, and made safer.

Sergio De Simone
on Oct 28, 2014
Analytics Across the Enterprise: How IBM Realizes Business Value from Big Data and Analytics

Analytics Across the Enterprise: How IBM Realizes Business Value from Big Data and Analytics book by Brenda L. Dietrich, Emily C. Plachy, and Maureen F. Norton is a collection of experiences by analytics practitioners in IBM. InfoQ spoke with the authors about the lessons learned from the book, the arsenal of technologies IBM has about Big Data and the future of Analytics.

Alex Giamas
on Oct 27, 2014
Why Some Web APIs Are Not RESTful and What Can Be Done About It

Many Web API designers claim their are RESTful, but their APIs have little in common with REST. What can be done to make a web service API truly RESTful?

Abel Avram
on Oct 26, 2014
How to Effectively Map SQL Data to a NoSQL Store

Sytze Harkema explains how to save and retrieve relational SQL data into a NoSQL key-value store as implemented by FoundationDB, an open source, scalable, fault tolerant and ACID database.

Sytze Harkema
on Oct 23, 2014
Jonas Bonér on Reactive Systems Anti-Patterns

Taking the opportunity offered by the update to the Reactive Manifesto, InfoQ asked Jonas Bonér, TypeSafe CTO and original author of the first Reactive Manifesto, some questions about his vision of “Reactive” applications. Jonas offered his thoughts about both desirable features of reactive applications and what is not reactive programming.

Sergio De Simone
on Oct 20, 2014
The State of Practice in Model-Driven Engineering

In this article, authors discuss the practice of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) based on a survey of MDE practitioners and found that developers use MDE techniques to develop key parts of a system instead of generating whole systems.

Mark Rouncefield John Hutchinson Jon Whittle
on Oct 19, 2014

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