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Big Memory .NET Part 1 – The Challenges in Handling 1 Billion Resident Business Objects

This article describes the concept of Big Memory and concentrates on its applicability to managed execution models like the one used in Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime (CLR). A few different approaches are suggested to resolve GC pausing issues that arise when a managed process starts to store over a few million objects.

Leonid Ganeline Dmitriy Khmaladze
on Oct 08, 2015
Culture & Methods

Peer Feedback Loops: Why Metrics and Meetings Are Not Enough

This is the first in a series of articles that will show how to build peer feedback loops, an effective means to encourage a culture of continuous improvement. Starting with a problem statement and some background on feedback, followed by explaining why metrics and meetings are not enough, the article describes the first three methods on how to design and facilitate peer feedback sessions.

Siegfried Kaltenecker
on Oct 07, 2015
Architecture & Design

Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model Book Review and Q&A with Vaughn Vernon

Vaughn Vernon in his new book Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model shows how this model can simplify enterprise software development. After an introduction to the basics of the actor model and tutorials on Scala and Akka the rest of the book is a patterns catalogue describing most of the patterns in the book Enterprise Integration Patterns from an actor model perspective.

Jan Stenberg
on Oct 06, 2015
Development

Author Q&A with Brett Slatkin on Effective Python

InfoQ speaks with Brett Slatkin, senior staff software engineer at Google and author of Effective Python.

Jeff Martin
on Oct 05, 2015
Culture & Methods

Standish Group 2015 Chaos Report - Q&A with Jennifer Lynch

The 2015 Standish Group Chaos Report has been released which shows some improvement and lots of opportunity for improvement in the software development industry. Jennifer Lynch spoke to InfoQ about the findings and their implications for software development. A significant change in the survey approach this year is the expansion of the definition of success to explore outcomes.

Stéphane Wojewoda Shane Hastie
on Oct 04, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Tom Roden and Ben Williams on Improving Retrospectives

InfoQ interviewed the authors of fifty quick ideas to improve your retrospectives about why they wrote the book and how ideas are described, when you can do retrospectives, what facilitators can do to establish safety, why facilitators should not be the ones who solve problems, celebrating successes, good practices for getting actions done, and the value that teams get from doing retrospectives.

Ben Linders
on Oct 02, 2015
.NET

Fighting Developer Fatigue with JNBridge

Developer fatigue is the overwhelming frustration felt by developers who are under pressure to keep current with a flood of new languages, libraries, frameworks, platforms and programming models. JNBridge offers a way to help alleviate developer fatigue by allowing you to mix the libraries you know with code written in the language you are learning.

Wayne Citrin
on Oct 01, 2015
DevOps

Build Quality In Book Review and Interview

Book review and interview with Steve Smith and Matthew Skelton, authors of "Build Quality In", a collection of experience reports (including their own) on Continuous Delivery and DevOps initiatives, by authors ranging from in-house technical and process leaders to external consultants implementing technical and organizational improvements.

Manuel Pais
on Sep 30, 2015
Mobile

What's new in iOS 9: Swift and Objective-C

In this article, we are going to examine new features added to iOS and OS X El Capitan main programming languages: the recently open sourced Swift, which extends pattern matching syntax, adds feature availability and protocol extension, and overhauls error handing; Objective-C, with new interoperability features as generic collections.

Sergio De Simone
on Sep 30, 2015
Java

Case for Defaulting to G1 Garbage Collector in Java 9

In this article, GC expert Monica Beckwith makes the case for JEP 248, the proposal to make G1 the default garbage collector in OpenJDK 9.

Monica Beckwith
on Sep 29, 2015
Mobile

A Glimpse of Latest Mobile App Development Trends

Even though mobile apps are nothing special anymore, there is still quite some movement in this area. In this article, Katie Stanfield highlights some of the trends we might encounter in the near future if we think about developing mobile applications: App developers and companies will have to keep in mind topics like Big Data and app analytics, Internet of Things or enterprise app stores.

Katie Stanfield
on Sep 29, 2015
Culture & Methods

Innovation at Telefónica with Lean Startup

Creating digital products is different from building traditional telco products: the uncertainty is much higher, the way of creating value for the customer is totally different and lifecycle is much faster says Susana Jurado Apruzzese. Telefónica adapted Lean Startup to their processes, culture and organization to make it work.

Ben Linders
on Sep 28, 2015

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