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C#/Web API Code Generation Patterns for the RAML User
In this article, Jonathan Allen outlines the design patterns that users of REST specification languages such as RAML, Swagger, and API Blueprint should adhere to when generating code for C# and ASP.NET Web API. This includes topics such as model validation, async support, and request cancellation.
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Test Management Revisited
The concept of test management sits awkwardly in agile, mostly because it’s a construct derived from the time when testing was a post-development phase, performed by independent testing teams. Agile, with its focus on cross functional teams, has sounded the death knell for many test managers. While test management is largely irrelevant in agile, there is still a desperate need for test leadership.
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Meaning it: What’s the Real Purpose of Corporate Social Responsibility?
A restaurant to give homeless people apprenticeships? A centre to foster social enterprise? A ‘round the nation’ bike ride? Helen Walton, chair of the Spark Award judging panel, talks to PwC about the range of their charitable activities in the UK, and why they’re about business, not image.
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"Using Docker" Book Review and Q&A with Author Adrian Mouat
InfoQ recently sat down with Adrian Mouat, author of “Using Docker”, and explored the motivations for writing the book, his thoughts on the reasons why Docker has captured the IT industry’s attention such as short time span, and how containers can be best utilised within a typical software development lifecycle.
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A Focus on Agile Principles over Agile Rituals
When scaling agile principles through rituals it's important to constantly evaluate and evolve those rituals. This article provides examples of experiments that focus on the original intent when developing team behaviors. It shows how you can be aware of triggers that mean your team is not finding value in a ritual and what you can do to make things more visible.
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Is HyperContainer the Answer for Cloud Native Applications?
Xu Wang introduces HyperContainer, a runtime for running Docker images on any hypervisor, providing hardware-enforced isolation for multi-tenant environments.
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Enterprise Mobility is Going Beyond “Mobile First” Approach. Are You Ready?
The mobile revolution is changing the way organizations work and manage their operations, as well as engage with their employees. As a result, organizations are reconsidering their technologies and techniques to make their traditional organizational cultures and roles more mobile friendly, making ‘mobile first’ a must have strategy.
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Full Stack Testing: Balancing Unit and End-to-End Tests
Full-stack testing can be a widespread and involved task. There are unit tests and end-to-end tests, but how do you know where to focus your efforts? In this article, David Copeland looks at the kinds of tests and how to balance the interplay between those tests and the overall software development effort.
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Designing Delivery Book Review and Interview
Book review and interview with Jeff Sussna, author of "Designing Delivery", on cybernetics, service exchange, customer-centric brands and a new definition of quality in a service-oriented world.
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High Load Trading Transaction Processing with Reveno CQRS/Event Sourcing Framework
Reveno is a powerful new, easy to use, highly performant, JVM based lock-free transaction processing framework based on CQRS and event-sourcing patterns. In this article we will develop a simple trading system implementation using the Reveno framework.
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DevOps Enterprise Adoption at Hearst Business Media with Pauly Comtois
Following our series of live interviews on DevOps Enterprise adoption, InfoQ has reached out to other technical leaders in large organizations to ask them about their DevOps initiatives. What challenges have they faced? Which improvements have they seen? What lies ahead? On this occasion we're talking with Pauly Comtois, Vice President of DevOps at Hearst Business Media.
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The Role of a Data Scientist in 2016
Data Scientist role has been getting lot of attention lately as organizations are starting to use big data processing and analytics techniques to gain insights into their data. This post takes a closer look at the role of a Data Scientist in 2016.