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  • Continuous Quality and the Cloud: How You Should Be Testing Mobile Apps

    What is so hard about developing and testing mobile apps? For a lot of developers the answer to this question is "keeping quality high in a field of device and os fragmentation". This is even more true when apps need to be delivered agile, in short release cycles. Cloud based test labs provide an infrastructure to efficiently execute automated tests for your software on a great number of devices.

    Eran Kinsbruner
    on May 05, 2015

  • Staying Connected When Working Remote

    Working remote can give you freedom and independence as you can work when and where you want. But working alone and being distant from people that you work with can result in loneliness and can make you feel disconnected. InfoQ interviewed Pilar Orti about the advantages and disadvantages of remote working, staying connected while working remote and creating trust.

    Ben Linders
    on May 04, 2015
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    Cloud Native Architectures - a Conversation with Matt Stine

    Rags Srinivas caught up with Matt Stine at the O'Reilly Architecture conference in Boston, MA. Matt talks about Cloud Native Architectures and some of the cultural and technological challenges. He talks about some of the NetFlix services and how Spring is wrapping it up to be able to architect and develop microservices on the platform. He also talks about SOA and what it probably missed out.

    Rags Srinivas
    on May 02, 2015

  • The Swiss Army Knife for Technical Leads

    Working as Technical Lead is very exciting, every day you have new challenges, new problems to solve and a lot of satisfactions. This article presents some tips in order to improve and empower your teams. There are several techniques to ensure the quality of the products we are working on, but the most important and powerful at the same time is without any doubt the feedback loops.

    Luca Mezzalira
    on May 01, 2015

  • Continuous Delivery: Huge Benefits, but Challenges Too

    This article explains why Paddy Power adopted continuous delivery (CD), describes the resulting CD capability, and reports the huge benefits and challenges involved. This information can help practitioners plan their adoption of CD and help researchers form their research agendas.

    Lianping Chen
    on Apr 30, 2015

  • Why Companies Need to do a Better Job of Prioritizing Features

    When everything is high priority, nothing is high priority, and we fall into a miasma of finger pointing and misplaced expectations. Here is why companies need to do a better job of prioritizing features. Wikipedia defines diffusion of responsibility as "... a sociopsychological phenomenon whereby a person is less likely to take responsibility for action or inaction when others are present

    Tirrell Payton
    on Apr 29, 2015

  • Concise Java

    Unix pioneer Ken Thompson once said, “one of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.” In this article Cas Saternos highlights practices now possible for writing concise Java code, with a special focus on the new functionality available in JDK 8. Shorter, more elegant code is possible due to the inclusion of Lambda Expressions in the language.

    Casimir Saternos
    on Apr 28, 2015

  • Total Talent Management: A Systems Approach to Agility

    With increasing corporate reliance on contract and temporary workers come more challenges for HR departments. Core HRM responsibilities like training/development, compensation/benefits, and mobility normally apply solely to standard company employees. Total talent management aim to do HRM for the total workforce, including temporary workers, contractors and consultants.

    Jas Chong
    on Apr 27, 2015

  • Randy Shoup and Andrew Phillips Answer Questions on Microservices

    Following the online webinar "Exploring the Uncharted Territory of Microservices" organized by XebiaLabs, which we covered in The Benefits of Microservices, Randy Shoup and Andrew Phillips answered a number of questions on microservices asked by participants.

    Abel Avram
    on Apr 26, 2015

  • Q&A with Sandro Mancuso about The Software Craftsman

    In the book The Software Craftsman, Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride Sandro Mancuso explores how craftmanship plays a role in agile software development. The book contains stories, examples and practical advice for software developers and other professionals involved in software projects to achieve technical excellence and customer satisfaction.

    Ben Linders
    on Apr 25, 2015

  • Scrum Fundamentals and Advanced Live Lessons : Video Review and Interview

    Tommy Norman’s Scrum Fundamentals and Advanced Live Lessons training videos help beginners to understand the basic agile and Scrum concepts. The videos run more than nine hours, broadly divided between “Scrum Fundamentals” and “Advanced Scrum”. The video sessions use animations to explain the concepts.

    Savita Pahuja
    on Apr 23, 2015

  • Functional-Style Callbacks Using Java 8's CompletableFuture

    The innovation of parallel streams in Java 8 has diverted attention from a very substantial addition to the concurrency library, the CompletableFuture class. Author Maurice Naftalin eloquently explores CompletableFuture, why it is so useful in programming systems that depend on the interaction of asynchronous tasks, and how it complements fork/join-style parallelism, including parallel streams.

    Maurice Naftalin
    on Apr 22, 2015
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