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The OpenJDK Revised Java Memory Model

The existing Java Memory Model covers a lot in terms of Java language semantic guarantees. In this article we will delve into a few of those semantics, and attempt to communicate the motivation for an update to the existing Java Memory Model

Monica Beckwith
on May 31, 2015
Q&A with Benjamin Wootton on DevOps Landscape in 2015

InfoQ talked with Benjamin Wootton, DevOps consultant, to get an update on his view of the DevOps landscape in 2015. Wootton shares his experience, low hanging fruit to kickstart DevOps transformations, how to leverage monitoring, cloud and containers. Also how the market is lacking engineers with the required attitude and skill set for DevOps.

Manuel Pais
on May 30, 2015
Development

Article Series: Description, Discovery, and Profiles : The Next Level in Web APIs

This series focuses on three key areas of "meta-language" for Web APIs: API Description, API Discovery, and API Profiles. You’ll see articles covering all three of these important trends as well as interviews with some of the key personalities in this fast-moving space.

Mike Amundsen
on May 29, 2015
Mobile Apps Offline Support

Offline support for mobile applications can be thought of as the ability for the app to react gracefully to the lack of connectivity. The rather new context of mobile devices introduced problems such as presence or absence of a network connection or even high latency and low bandwidth. This article covers approaches to these problems in the field of mobile app development.

Gustavo Machado
on May 29, 2015
Using Experiments and Data to Innovate and Build Products Customers Actually Use

An interview with Jan Bosch, professor of software engineering and director of the Software Center at Chalmers University of Technology, about the benefits that companies can get from increasing delivery speed, the next steps that organisations can take after adopting Agile and DevOps, using experiments to innovate, practices for experimentation and how organisations can become more innovative.

Ben Linders
on May 28, 2015
Migrating Your Team to Visual Project Management Software

Visual project management tools can provide greater flexibility within development lifecycles and improved quality of the overall product through smarter distribution of tasks, but migrating from a scrum-only application to a visual PM tool can be jarring. This article presents six tips for making a smooth transition and two case studies of development teams that have already done so.

Aleksandr Peterson
on May 27, 2015
From Doodles to Delivery: An API Design Process

Having a basic understanding of web based applications is a good foundation for designing a working Web API. But, if you want to create a good API you need a lot more than that. Designing a good API is hard work and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed when it’s your job to make one.

Ronnie Mitra
on May 26, 2015
Dealing with Politics in Agile or Lean Teams

InfoQ interviewed Katharine Kirk about how agile or lean can increase politics and how she combines ideas from agile and lean with eastern and tribal philosophy to deal with people issues that arise. InfoQ also asked her to give a different perspective and practical advice for addressing and navigating politics in organizations.

Ben Linders
on May 25, 2015
DevOps is Not a Feature!

DevOps is the industrialization of IT, says Nati Shalom. Organizations that wish to optimize for speed and cost cannot afford silos anymore."Doing DevOps" is not adding new features to existing tools. In this article, Shalom takes us through the differences between management solutions in a pre and post DevOps world.

Nati Shalom
on May 24, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

High Tech, High Sec.: Security Concerns in Graph Databases

Graph NoSQL databases support data models with connected data and relationships. In this article, author discusses the security implications of graph database technology. He talks about the privacy and security concerns in use cases like graph discovery, knowledge management, and prediction.

George Hurlburt
on May 23, 2015
Description, Discovery, and Profiles: A Primer

While the process of implementing Web APIs has become common, the tooling for describing, discovering, and understanding the meaning of the tens of thousands of API-based services has yet to settle into a widely-accepted set of standards. There is still quite a bit of opportunity when it comes to defining and implementing tools around the "meta-level" of APIs.

Mike Amundsen
on May 22, 2015
Q&A on the Book Scenario-Focused Engineering

The book Scenario-Focused Engineering describes a customer-centric lean and agile approach for developing and delivering software-based products. It provides ideas to understand customer needs based upon end-to-end experiences and for designing products in a customer-focused way using a fast feedback cycle.

Ben Linders
on May 22, 2015