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Big Data as a Service, an Interview with Google's William Vambenepe
Many of the Big Data technologies in common use originated from Google and have become popular open source platforms, but now Google is bringing an increasing range of big data services to market as part of its Google Cloud Platform. InfoQ caught up with Google's William Vambenepe, who's lead product manager for Big Data services to ask him about the shift towards service based consumption.
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Article Series: Design and Technology: Joining Forces for a Truly Competitive Advantage
This article series offers readers tactical approaches to building software that your customers love. Break down existing silos and create an environment for cross-collaborative teams: placing technology, business and user experience design at the core.
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Transitioning to Cloud Native Applications and Beyond
Enterprises have continued to accelerate their adoption of cloud infrastructures. As this shift continues, it is important to understand what this means to applications that run in cloud environments.
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Q&A with Ron Jeffries on The Nature of Software Development.
The book "the nature of software development" intents to help people to organize their thoughts about value and find ways to deliver value in software development. It's a book of questions, not of answers, says author Ron Jeffries, for readers to discover the natural way to develop software, the simple way, inside themselves.
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Architectural Refactoring: A Task-Centric View on Software Evolution
In this article, author discusses Architectural Refactoring (AR) techniques to improve the quality attributes without changing the system's scope and functionality. He also provides a TaskCentric Template and Architectural Refactoring Catalog.
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Business, Design and Technology: Joining Forces for a Truly Competitive Advantage
The list of industries being disrupted by digital technologies is growing. To embrace this new digital world, companies need to change their practices and the way they use technology.
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User Story Driven Docs
At OutSystems we stopped trying to document the UI and started doing user story driven documentation. In this article I'll tell you why you should avoid document the UI, and how to check if you're already doing it. I'll also tell you how focusing on user stories changed our team's culture, and the process we're currently using to create documentation for OutSystems Platform.
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Profiles on the Web: An Interview with Erik Wilde
Erik Wilde talks to Mike Amundsen about Profiles, Description, Documentation, Discovery, his Sedola project and the future of Web-level metadata for APIs.
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From a Project to a Product Approach Using LeSS at Agfa Healthcare
By changing the inner workings from a project perspective to a product perspective Agfa Healthcare established a less complicated process using a single backlog for the entire organisation. Main advice is to try to avoid setting up silos where they do not belong. When applying LeSS it is important to stick to its basic rules even though they are, in most organisations, very disruptive.
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An Agile Input Management Process Framework - The Agile IMP
Agile methods and processes such as Scrum give us conceptual tools to implement our innovative ideas. But that toolset seems to miss a crucial part: A well-structured ideas development process. The Agile IMP (Input Management Process) proposes a conceptual framework for managing input from multiple sources, for maturing input and for basing product decisions on soundly evaluated propositions.
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DevOps & Product Teams - Win or Fail?
Peter Neumark found a new world when he moved from a DevOps infrastructure team to a Lean product team.How to experiment frequently while keeping operational performance? Platform teams to the rescue!
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The Road Ahead for Architectural Languages
In this article, authors examine architectural languages (ALs) and model-driven engineering (MDE) as means for improving the architecture design. They review a framework of AL requirements, which includes Architectural Language definition, features and architecture tools. They also talk about MDE as a technological solution for supporting the AL requirements framework.