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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Voys Learns to Play the Holacracy Game

    Holacracy removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across teams that have a clear set of roles, responsibilities, and expectations. This new organizational system with no managers or titles is often misunderstood. Learn about holacracy from the Dutch telecom company Voys who implemented this new way of running organizations.

  • The Four Concerns That Must Be Addressed Before the Internet of Things Can Really Take Off In 2016

    By 2020, there will be more than 50 billion of connected devices, according to Cisco, and experts predict that the IoT will have a $3.5 trillion impact on the global economy within the next five years. The question is, is it really going to happen? And shouldn’t we be seeing greater market penetration than we already do?

  • The Lean Business Analysis Manifesto Explained

    David Morris explains how Lean Business Analysis responds to the ever-increasing pace of change in an age of digital disruption. We no longer have business as usual, so why would we do business analysis as usual? The Lean Business Analysis Manifesto helps put order into the chaos that exists in many of today’s organisations.

  • The Challenge of Monitoring Containers at Scale

    The adoption of containers, and the associated desire to build microservices, is causing a paradigm shift within the monitoring space. Application functionality is becoming more granular and more independently scalable and resilient, which is a challenge for traditional monitoring solutions. InfoQ recently sat down with a series of container monitoring experts and explored these challenges.

  • Understanding Quality and Reliability

    One of the most overlooked but important areas of software development is quality. It often is not considered or even discussed during the early planning stages of all development projects, but it’s almost always the ultimate criteria for when a product is ready to ship or deploy. This article will explore how to measure quality and minimize the factors that negatively impact software reliability.

  • Invokedynamic - Java’s Secret Weapon

    invokedynamic was the first new Java bytecode since Java 1.0 and was crucial in implementing the "headline" features of Java 8 (such as lambdas and default methods). In this article, we take a deep dive into invokedynamic and explain why it is such a powerful tool for the Java platform and for JVM languages such as JRuby and Nashorn.

  • Microservices Evolution at SoundCloud

    At the MicroXchg conference in Berlin, Bora Tunca from SoundCloud presented the evolution of SoundCloud’s microservices architecture throughout the years. We had the opportunity to interview him and learn more about SoundCloud’s architecture evolution and microservices in general.

  • Spark in Action Book Review & Interview

    In the "Spark in Action" book, authors Petar Zecevic and Marko Bonaci discuss the Apache Spark framework for data processing (batch and streaming data use cases). They introduce the architecture of Spark and core concepts such as Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs). InfoQ spoke with them about Apache Spark, developer tools, and the upcoming features and enhancements in the future releases.

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