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Lambda Architecture: Design Simpler, Resilient, Maintainable and Scalable Big Data Solutions

Lambda Architecture proposes a simpler, elegant paradigm designed to store and process large amounts of data. In this article, author Daniel Jebaraj presents the motivation behind the Lambda Architecture, reviews its structure with the help of a sample Java application.

Daniel Jebaraj
on Mar 12, 2014
3 years of Kanban at Sandvik IT: Sustaining Kanban in the Enterprise

This second article in the “3 years of Kanban at Sandvik IT” series focuses on the lessons that the System Development Office learned when sustaining the Kanban method during this 4 years journey. Presented are four qualities that Sandvik IT identified as key when setting-up relevant, and long-term, kanban systems in the enterprise: Stickiness, Clarity, Curiosity and Influence.

Christophe Achouiantz
on Mar 11, 2014
Sustainable Architectural Design Decisions

Software architects must create designs that can endure throughout software evolution. In this article, based on a research study the authors discuss the criteria that can help architects assess architectural design decisions’ sustainability. They describe the challenges to achieving sustainable decisions, criteria for such decisions, solutions they tried, and lessons learned.

Rafael Capilla Olaf Zimmermann Uwe Zdun Huy Tran
on Mar 09, 2014
Coaching the CxO

Agile coaches are not unfamiliar in working with management roles such as project managers and team managers to facilitate changes on team level. But now they need to facilitate change on management level, which completely changes the scope of the agile coach. This article helps agile coaches to understand the context of their target audience and formulate a coaching message matching that context.

Joost Mulders
on Mar 06, 2014
Kanban at Scale – A Siemens Success Story

This article shows an internally driven and remarkably smooth Kanban implementation approach which very quickly rewarded Siemens Health Services (HS) with real and sustainable improvements in predictability, efficiency and quality. It demonstrates the benefits of “flow” and its advantages in terms of actionable metrics and forecasting capabilities based on real data captured from recent releases.

Bennet Vallet
on Feb 28, 2014
Interview and Book Review of The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering

Capers Jones wrote the book The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering in which he provides an overview of the evolution of information technology and software development. InfoQ interviewed Capers about advancements and events in software engineering and the effects that they have had on our society.

Ben Linders
on Feb 26, 2014
Quality Code - Book Review and Interview

Quality Code book, authored by Stephen Vance, covers the different aspects of software development lifecycle with focus on delivering quality product. In the book, Stephen discusses the practices for supporting software craftsmanship testing. InfoQ spoke with the author about the book and the best practices for testing application code.

Srini Penchikala
on Feb 25, 2014
Embedded Analytics and Statistics for Big Data

This article provides an overview of tools and libraries available for embedded data analytics and statistics, both stand-alone software packages and programming languages with statistical capabilities. The authors also discuss how to combine and integrate these embedded analytics technologies to handle big data.

Christof Ebert Panos Louridas
on Feb 23, 2014
Author Q&A – The Lean Mindset by Tom and Mary Poppendieck

The Lean Mindset is a collection of research results and case studies from companies applying lean in product development and delivery. A lean mindset according to Mary and Tom Poppendieck is about “developing the expertise to ask the right questions, solve the right problems, and do the right thing in the situation at hand”.

Ben Linders
on Feb 18, 2014
Modern Enterprise Performance Analysis Antipatterns

In this article we present some of the most common performance analysis antipatterns in the enterprise platform, expressed in terms of their basic causes along with remediation strategies.

Ben Evans
on Feb 15, 2014
Answering Common Cloud Security Questions from CIOs

With the news stories of possible data breaches at enterprises like Target, and the current trend of companies migrating to cloud environments for the flexibility, scalability, agility, and cost-effectiveness they offer, CIOs have been asking hard questions about cloud security.

Gilad Parran-Nissany
on Feb 12, 2014
Big Data Analytics for Security

In this article, authors discuss the role of big data and Hadoop in security analytics space and how to use MapReduce to efficiently process data for security analysis for use cases like Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Fraud Detection.

Sreeranga P. Rajan Alvaro A. Cárdenas Pratyusa K. Manadhata
on Feb 11, 2014

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