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Virtual Panel: Convergence of SOA Governance and API Management

There's recently been a lot of discussion about the convergence of SOA Governance and API Management. Services and APIs appear to deal with similar concerns, but historically the approach & philosophy has been different. Is there convergence and how? InfoQ spoke to a panel of SOA Governance and API Management experts to garner their views.

Saul Caganoff
on Aug 26, 2014
What UX is and isn't?

User Experience is part of a collaborative, self-contained and balanced team that has all the necessary roles to be wholly responsible for building the right thing, and building the thing right.User experience runs deep, is way more than the UI, and starts in the abstract with the strategy.

Aaron Sanders
on Aug 24, 2014
Practical Cassandra: A Developer's Approach - Book Review and Interview

Practical Cassandra: A Developer's Approach book by Russell Bradberry and Eric Lubow, is a developer's guide to build applications using Cassandra NoSQL database. InfoQ spoke with the authors about the book, Cassandra data model, design considerations and how Cassandra performs concurrency and versioning of the data sets.

Srini Penchikala
on Aug 21, 2014
SOA and API Schism and Unification

While both API and SOA have similar business and technical goals, many API proponents continue to describe APIs as a significantly different approach with little connection to SOA. They often promote a deep and divisive schism between pragmatic REST APIs and SOA. The division inhibits cleanly integrating SOA services and RESTful APIs into a unified architecture.

Chris Haddad
on Aug 20, 2014
Q&A with Sander Hoogendoorn on This is Agile

The book This is Agile: Beyond the basics. Beyond the Hype. Beyond Scrum by Sander Hoogendoorn covers situations that enterprises can encounter when adopting agile, and provides solutions on how to deal with them. It is a translation of the Dutch book Dit is Agile. InfoQ interviewed Sander about managing agile projects, balancing the work in iterations, and different kinds of agile approaches.

Ben Linders
on Aug 19, 2014
Collaborative Software Development Platforms for Crowdsourcing

In this IEEE article, authors provide an overview of current technologies for crowdsourcing in software development. They talk about the requirements, current practice and trends in collaborative platforms.

Xin Peng Christof Ebert Muhammad Ali Babar
on Aug 17, 2014
Converging API Governance and SOA Governance

Achieving Service Oriented Architecture initiative success requires creating loosely coupled consumer-provider connections, enforcing a separation of concerns between consumer and provider, exposing a set of re-usable, shared services, and gaining service consumer adoption. Many development teams publish SOA services, yet struggle to create a service architecture that is widely adopted.

Chris Haddad
on Aug 15, 2014
Large Scale Event Tracking with RabbitMQ

A developer and publisher of free-to-play web and mobile games, Goodgame Studios leverages events to track their players' behaviors. Due to the volume of their events, Goodgame Studios uses RabbitMQ and cloud technologies to capture this event data for further processing.

Dr. Claire Fautsch
on Aug 13, 2014
Project Inception - How to Use a Single Meeting to Achieve Alignment

Before you start a project, achieving team alignment is essential for efficacy and efficiency. High fidelity interactions with the whole team are far more effective for aligning a team than many emails, documents, and conference calls. This article describes how to do a single full-day inception meeting to get the extended team aligned.

James Bayer
on Aug 12, 2014
Why Do We Need Self-Organising Teams?

Change is the only constant in our world and “business agility” is demanded. Our old maps for running organisations are no longer valid; we need new ones based on systemic thinking. This second article from a series on Leading Self-Organising Teams discusses why we need self-organising teams.

Peter Hundermark Sigi Kaltenecker
on Aug 09, 2014
Java

Introducing Spring XD, a Runtime Environment for Big Data Applications

Spring XD (eXtreme Data) is Pivotal’s Big Data play. It joins Spring Boot and Grails as part of the execution portion of the Spring IO platform. Whilst Spring XD makes use of a number of existing Spring projects it is a runtime environment rather than a library or framework, comprising a bin directory with servers that you start up and interact with via a shell.

Charles Humble
on Jul 23, 2014
A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Software Reuse in Mobile Apps

In this article, authors discuss a case study of several Android mobile apps to analyze software reuse in terms of inheritance and code reuse as well as framework reuse of whole apps.

Thorsten Berger Israel J. Mojica Ahmed E. Hassan Meiyappan Nagappan Bram Adams Steffen Dienst
on Jul 20, 2014

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