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Lessons Learned About Cloud Migration

At the recent Dynatrace Perform conference, a panel of technology companies discussed the topic of cloud migration and uncovered some key findings.

Alois Reitbauer
on Dec 17, 2015
DevOps

Interview series: DevOps Enterprise Adoption

InfoQ ran a series of interviews during the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, focusing on the DevOps transformations that many corporations are currently undertaking to improve not only their productivity and time to market, but also to increase engagement and collaboration between people and teams.

Manuel Pais
on Dec 16, 2015
Culture & Methods

#noprojects – Focus on Value, Not Projects

In this second article in the #noprojects series Evan Leybourn explains why the focus of work should be about maximizing value rather than working in a project structure. The author presents a dive deep into a #noprojects implementation and provides a framework to structure work as activities around defined outcomes.

Evan Leybourn
on Dec 16, 2015
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2015

This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon San Francisco 2015 as blogged and tweeted by QCon's 1,300 attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 10 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.

Abel Avram
on Dec 16, 2015
Java

The Soul of a New Release: Eating Our Own Dog Food

As any software developer well knows, large releases are often delayed, or released sans some important features, and newly released software is often riddled with bugs. In this article Plumbr's development lead describes techniques they used to successfully release a major upgrade to the Plumbr Java Performance Monitoring solution, without getting burned by the usual fires.

Nikita Salnikov-Tarnovski
on Dec 15, 2015
Culture & Methods

"Outsourcing is Bad": Why Good Vendors Agree

Today all companies are software companies and all software must get coded right and get coded fast. This requires a team with shared culture, shared risk, shared accountability. Some would say this isn’t possible with outsourcing. The author believes it is possible and that it’s the only type of outsourcing that will survive.

Yousef Awad
on Dec 14, 2015
Culture & Methods

Designing Menlo - a Conversation with James Goebel

While visiting Menlo Innovations for a week the author spoke to co-founder and COO James Gobel about the intentional design of the culture and structure of the organization as a joyous workplace. James explains the joy of building products that people use, the goal of "eliminating human suffering as related to technology in the world" and how Menlonians work together towards that goal.

Shane Hastie
on Dec 12, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Data Lake-as-a-Service: Big Data Processing and Analytics in the Cloud

Data Lake-as-a-Service solutions provide big data processing in the cloud for faster business outcomes in a very cost effective way. InfoQ spoke with Lovan Chetty and Hannah Smalltree from Cazena team about how Data Lake as a Service works.

Srini Penchikala
on Dec 10, 2015
Culture & Methods

Is There a Correlation Between Employee Happiness and Agile?

This article examines the agile culture and explores how it helps create a happy environment. It questions the practices and attitudes evident in some of the Tech Titan organisations, and questions if they actually want to achieve employee satisfaction and sustainable pace. Perhaps the Tech Titans leadership doesn’t want Agile because Agile isn’t good for their questionable labor behavior?

Joe Fecarotta
on Dec 09, 2015
Java

Easily Create Java Agents with Byte Buddy

In this article Rafael Winterhalter, creator of the bytecode manipulation tool Byte Buddy, provides detailed guidance on how to easily create Java agents using Byte Buddy.

Rafael Winterhalter
on Dec 08, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Vasco Duarte on the #NoEstimates Book

In the book NoEstimates: How to Measure Project Progress Without Estimating Vasco Duarte explores how NoEstimates can help to manage projects with a focus on value and predictability, report progress quickly and often, and adapt plans constantly based on existing data.

Ben Linders
on Dec 07, 2015
Culture & Methods

Lynne Cazaly on Making Sense using Visual Communications

Lynne Cazaly spoke at the recent Agile New Zealand conference on the importance of clarity and sense-making in a world where VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) is the norm. She presented ideas on how to convey messages more effectively using visual tools and gave the audience a quickfire class on communicating using simple images.

Shane Hastie
on Dec 05, 2015

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