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Embedding Reflection and Learning into Agile Software Development

In this article, authors discuss the Reflective Agile Learning Model (REALM) that embeds reflective practice into the iterative and agile software engineering development cycle. This model combines insights and results from studies of agile development practices used in real-world projects.

Jeffry Babb Jacob Nørbjerg Rashina Hoda
on Oct 26, 2014
Fast track to Kanban - a practical approach from Danske Bank

This article describes how Danske Bank effectively introduced Kanban for development teams in a two day workshop using an “involve me and I learn” method. It describes how to use the approach and provides guidance on getting started, enabling you to do it yourself and get started with Kanban.

Sune Lomholt
on Oct 25, 2014
Interview and Book Review: Managing Windows Servers with Chef

InfoQ spoke with John Ewart about his book “Managing Windows Servers with Chef” that covers all aspects of managing Windows systems with Chef.

Matthias Marschall
on Oct 24, 2014
How to Effectively Map SQL Data to a NoSQL Store

Sytze Harkema explains how to save and retrieve relational SQL data into a NoSQL key-value store as implemented by FoundationDB, an open source, scalable, fault tolerant and ACID database.

Sytze Harkema
on Oct 23, 2014
How to Select the Right People

Your team will make you succeed or fail. Many look at outsourcing as a way of solving a technical problem while maintaining or even cutting costs. But people are not widgets that can simply be fitted to a specific spot and just work. In this article Zhenya Rozinskiy covers steps required for building remote teams and shares his own experiences.

Zhenya Rozinskiy
on Oct 22, 2014
Java Sleight of Hand

The Java language has its fair share of peculiarities. “Java Sleight of Hand” presents nine original Java puzzlers; seemingly innocent code constructs that produce unlikely outcomes.

Paulo Moreira
on Oct 21, 2014
Jonas Bonér on Reactive Systems Anti-Patterns

Taking the opportunity offered by the update to the Reactive Manifesto, InfoQ asked Jonas Bonér, TypeSafe CTO and original author of the first Reactive Manifesto, some questions about his vision of “Reactive” applications. Jonas offered his thoughts about both desirable features of reactive applications and what is not reactive programming.

Sergio De Simone
on Oct 20, 2014
The State of Practice in Model-Driven Engineering

In this article, authors discuss the practice of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) based on a survey of MDE practitioners and found that developers use MDE techniques to develop key parts of a system instead of generating whole systems.

Mark Rouncefield John Hutchinson Jon Whittle
on Oct 19, 2014
Cloud Automation in a Windows World

In this article, Matt Wrock explores real world Windows automation scenarios. How is Windows being automated in 2014? What are the pain points? How does this differ from the Linux world?

Matt Wrock
on Oct 18, 2014
An interview with Sam Guckenheimer on Microsoft's Journey to Cloud Cadence

At the recent Agile 2014 conference Sam Guckenheimer gave the opening keynote on Microsoft Developer Division's transition to a continuous delivery model. After the talk he sat down with InfoQ to discuss what it takes to achieve operational agility and cloud cadence.

Shane Hastie
on Oct 17, 2014
Why SOA Should Be Viewed As “Dependency-Oriented Thinking”

Ganesh Prasad proposes minimizing service dependencies in a SOA implementation rather than avoiding point-to-point connections in order to obtain a more flexible system that can evolve over time.

Ganesh Prasad
on Oct 16, 2014
Rescuing Checked Exceptions in Asynchronous Java Code

Java checked exceptions are a handy abstraction for a sequential workflow. When thread switches are introduced, even though the exception abstraction remains valid at the description level, the syntax support is no longer available. This article investigates how to overcome that syntactical limitation.

Dario Crivelli
on Oct 15, 2014