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Making the Case for an API Roadmap

Chris Haddad explains why one should create a roadmap for an API, providing advice on avoiding common API pitfalls, creating business value and monetizing API assets.

Chris Haddad
on Nov 26, 2014
Article Series: Creating Mobile Apps - Recently New Technology and Already a Commodity?

This InfoQ article series is focused on the fast-changing world of Mobile technology. Various technologies emerged to create mobile apps and development processes start to consider mobile as first class citizens. But even though mobile already seems to be omnipresent, the future is just about to start. All this will influence the way we design, develop and test software in the coming years.

Ralph Winzinger
on Nov 25, 2014
An Interview with HAL Creator Mike Kelly

As part of our ongoing series on Web APIs Mike Amundsen talks to Mike Kelly about his reasons for creating HAL and his experiences over the last three years with web developers and the API community.

Mike Amundsen
on Nov 25, 2014
Tuning Java Servers

With tens of thousands of Java servers running in production in the enterprise, many engineers still lack the skills to keep their Java servers greased. In this article InfoQ takes a look at basic techniques for tuning Java servers.

Srinath Perera
on Nov 24, 2014
Behavioral Analysis for Mobile Apps

Mobile channels are getting more and more important - not only for companies with focus on technology but also for traditional businesses. Consequently, the concepts of website optimization and customer behavior analysis are being transferred to field of mobile websites and mobile applications. The overall goal is to learn more about customer behavior and to adopt mobile applications to it.

Ralph Winzinger
on Nov 24, 2014
The Long Journey Towards Database Lifecycle Management

Application Lifecycle Management is a standard process, but there have been obstacles to using the same practice for databases. Ben Rees, General Manager for Database Continuous Delivery at Red Gate, explains why the road ahead is now clear for Database Lifecycle Management.

Ben Rees
on Nov 23, 2014
An Introduction to Chef and to Cookbook Development Flow

“Infrastructure as Code” is a tenet of the DevOps community. But treating Infrastructure as Code is a tall order. Development practices have also evolved rapidly and nowadays that means continuous integration, automated tests and more. We’ll make a brief introdution to Chef, a well-known IT automation tool, and use it to illustrate the state of the art.

João Miranda
on Nov 23, 2014
Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals. Part 1

All too often we that the business people we deal with do not know what they want, in this first article in a series Michael presents some ideas on how to talk to them and how to explore their needs. In this article he discusses how to manage a conversation, explore the needs and clarify expectations.

Michał Bartyzel
on Nov 22, 2014
Is Your Java Application Hostile to JIT Compilation?

One of the most important parts of the JVM is the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. However, many applications are not written to take full advantage of the high-performance capabilities of the JIT. In this article we investigate some simple tricks to identify issues that may be making your application unfriendly to JIT.

Ben Evans
on Nov 21, 2014
Interview with Alex Holmes, author of “Hadoop in Practice. Second Edition”

The new “Hadoop in Practice. Second Edition” book by Alex Holmes provides a deep insight into Hadoop ecosystem covering a wide spectrum of topics such as data organization, layouts and serialization, data processing, including MapReduce and big data patterns, special structures along with their usage to simplify big data processing, and SQL on Hadoop data.

Boris Lublinsky
on Nov 20, 2014
The Resurrection of Product Risk Analysis

Product risk analysis (PRA) is not only useful in testing but is also applicable during the various phases of sequential or agile system development. This article introduces a different application of PRA that elevates it from project level to domain level. It shows how you can go from risk and requirement-based testing to risk and requirement-based development.

Chris Schotanus
on Nov 19, 2014
A Business Perspective on APIs

This article, the first of a new series, examines APIs from a business perspective, whether or not they are open and overtly monetized. It covers the importance of tying your APIs back to your business value, looks at the type of data that should be used, and studies the success stories of Amazon and Twilio.

Matt McLarty
on Nov 18, 2014

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