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Shipping-to-Partner or Partnership?

Due to globalization and supply chain management, a single company cannot operate on its own anymore. This article helps you to develop an insight in the current ways that your partnerships are running. By defining models and explaining characteristics of these models you get better insight in the relationships with your partners. More important, you will learn to benefit better from partnerships.

Henk Woolschot
on Feb 11, 2015
Bas Vodde on the LeSS Framework

At the recent Agile Singapore conference Bas Vodde spoke about Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) - the scaling model he and Craig Larman have introduced. He explains some of the important elements of LeSS.

Shane Hastie
on Feb 10, 2015
Building Microservices with Spring Boot

The concept of a "microservice architecture" has steadily gained a foothold in software development over the past several years. This article uses Spring Boot, which recognized from an early time the benefits in decomposing monolithic services into distributed microservices, and was designed in a way that makes developing and building microservices a developer-focused process.

Dan Woods
on Feb 10, 2015
Insights into the Testing and Release Processes for Chrome for iOS

At a recent Google Tech Talk in New York, Lindsay Pasricha, software test engineer at Google for the last eight years, provided a peek into the test and release processes for Google Chrome for iOS, exploring product development strategy, automated testing frameworks, and manual testing processes. Here a summary of the most important takeaways.

Sergio De Simone
on Feb 09, 2015
R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics – Book Review and Interview

The book "R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics" authored by Jared P. Lander covers the R programming language and how to use it for data analytics and visualizations. InfoQ spoke with Jared about the R programming language, book, and big data analytics and visualization.

Srini Penchikala
on Feb 07, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Frederic Laloux on Reinventing Organizations

In the book reinventing organizations Frederic Laloux researched 12 organizations who use fundamentally new ways to manage work and their employees. InfoQ interviewed Frederic about how evolutionary-teal organizations manage themselves, practices for start-ups, self-organizing organizations, renewing approaches for managing performance of employees and results from evolutionary-teal organizations.

Ben Linders
on Feb 06, 2015
DevOps

Virtual Roundtable: The Role of Containers in Modern Applications

JP Morgenthal recently published a controversial DevOps.com article entitled “Containers Are Designed for an Antiquated Application Architecture.” After observing a lively debate on Twitter, InfoQ reached out to some of the most influential (and opinionated!) tech leaders in the industry – including Morgenthal himself – and asked them to participate in a virtual roundtable.

Richard Seroter
on Feb 05, 2015
React.js in Real Life at Codecademy

Codecademy recently switched to React.js for their front-end learning environment. While many React examples are basic, author Bonnie Eisenman goes over how to use React in a large, critical environment.

Bonnie Eisenman
on Feb 04, 2015
Java

Scala in Large Scale Systems

This is the first installment in a series about using Scala for large-scale data stores and analytics. Dave Hrycyszyn speaks to Andrew Jayne, senior software engineer at McLaren Applied Technologies, about the experience of building a custom high-performance data store in Scala.

Dave Hrycyszyn
on Feb 03, 2015
Can You Scale Kanban?

When organizations are scaling agile and want to apply kanban as one of their agile methods the question can pop up if kanban can also be scaled? InfoQ interviewed Klaus Leopold about using kanban for managing a program, deploying and connecting kanban boards on team and program level, managing work in progress across the full delivery cycle and the benefits that kanban can bring.

Ben Linders
on Feb 02, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Big Data Processing with Apache Spark – Part 1: Introduction

Apache Spark is an open source big data processing framework built around speed, ease of use, and sophisticated analytics. In this article, Srini Penchikala talks about how Apache Spark framework helps with big data processing and analytics with its standard API. He also discusses how Spark compares with traditional MapReduce implementation like Apache Hadoop.

Srini Penchikala
on Jan 30, 2015
How to Remain Agile When You Have to Sign a Contract?

Agile development based on a contract that has been accepted by lawyers seems impossible. The nature of traditional purchasing and contracting processes does not match the Agile principles. This is a case story of how a supplier cooperated with a client to develop a huge project in an Agile way, by cutting it into smaller pieces and prepare a matching contract based on mutual trust.

Peter Horsten Paweł Bejger
on Jan 29, 2015

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