InfoQ Homepage Articles
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What Do AI and Test Automation Have in Common?
These days AI is a big buzzword. While it rises in popularity, the controversy surrounding it flourishes as well. We will demystify AI, and see how it is already embedded in our everyday life, and then you are going to learn about how we (the folks at Testim.io) utilised this kind of groundbreaking technology to bring test automation to the next level.
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The Modern Edge
This article shares stories of how interesting companies are using edge computing in ways you might not expect to solve real problems and help build a better Internet.
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Java Feature Spotlight: Text Blocks
Java SE 13 introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second preview, with minor changes, and is scheduled to become a permanent feature of the Java Language in Java SE 15. In this article Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle, provides a deep-dive into the topic.
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Reinforcement Machine Learning for Effective Clinical Trials
In this article, author Dattaraj Jagdish Rao explores the reinforcement machine learning technique called Multi-armed Bandits and discusses how it can be applied to areas like website design and clinical trials.
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The Value and Purpose of a Test Coach
Introducing business-oriented automated testing can involve a huge cultural change. For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters. In this article we hear from someone living this new role, using Domain Oriented Testing on a daily basis to ensure acceptance tests have full story coverage, and unit tests verify business behavior, not implementation.
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Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2020
An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2020, with a focus on fundamental architectural patterns, framework usage, and design skills.
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Ideas for Remote Retrospectives that Engage
Retrospectives have been shown to be an important tool for teams to improve their ways of working and increase collaboration. In person, retrospectives are well understood with many approaches and techniques. This article looks at how to carry the practice across when working remotely.
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Interview with Creator of Polypane, a Powerful Browser for Developers
Polypane is a powerful development web browser with many features to assist during the development of web applications and websites. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Polypane creator Kilian Valkhof to learn more about what Polypane is, the motivation behind it, the technology used, challenges in creating the product, future direction, and much more.
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Q&A on the Book The Science of Organizational Change
In The Science of Organizational Change, Paul Gibbons challenges existing theories and tools of change management and debunks management myths. He explores going from a change management to a change-agility paradigm and provides 21st-century research on behavioral science, that affects topics such as project planning, change strategy, business-agility, and change leadership in a VUCA world.
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Custom Response Caching Using NCache in ASP.NET Core
NCache is a cross-platform, open-source distributed caching framework from Alachisoft. It is an extremely fast distributed caching framework that is linearly scalable. This article presents a discussion on how we can work with NCache and response caching middleware in ASP.NET Core.
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Deploying Edge Cloud Solutions without Sacrificing Security
Security challenges exist with edge cloud solutions. Some are technical, and some relate to the way in which these services are used. This article looks at the why, what, and how of edge security.
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Failover Conf Q&A on Building Reliable Systems: People, Process, and Practice
One of the biggest engineering challenges associated with maintaining or increasing the reliability of a system is knowing where to invest time and energy. InfoQ recently sat down with several engineers and technical leaders who are involved with the upcoming Failover Conf virtual event, and asked their opinion on the best practices for building and running reliable systems.