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"The Docker Book" Review and Author Q&A

"The Docker Book", by James Turnbull, is a hands-on book for everyone who wants to learn about Docker. It will take you from your first installation, through simple examples that explain Docker's concepts, to more complex scenarios that shed some light on how you would use Docker on the real world. InfoQ took the opportunity to hear the author on the book and Docker.

João Miranda
on Oct 10, 2014
DukeScript: A New Attempt to Run Java Everywhere

DukeScript is a technology meant to bring Java to every client, mobile or desktop, without the need of a plug-in. In spite of its misleading name, DukeScript is not a new scripting language but an attempt to “put Java back in JavaScript”, in an attempt to fulfill the initial vision for Java: Write Once, Run Everywhere.

Abel Avram
on Oct 09, 2014
Three Practical Guidelines for Business Decisions

You will find 3 practical Agile rules to combine top-down problem-decisions (project waterfall like approaches) and local problem-decisions (Agile project approach) in this article. The three are: implement simple local rules, define Strategic top down rules and promote a visual problem view. These are an excerpt from Michael's book: Agile Decisions, Driving Effective Agile Decisions in Business

Michael Nir
on Oct 09, 2014
Shadow IT Risk and Reward

Chris Haddad explains in this article what Shadow IT is, what role it plays in the enterprise and why Enterprise IT needs to embrace it, adapt and address Shadow IT requirements, autonomy, and goals.

Chris Haddad
on Oct 08, 2014
Java 8 Lambdas - A Peek Under the Hood

Java 8 was released in March 2014 and introduced lambda expressions as its flagship feature. This article sheds light on how Java 8 lambda expressions and method references are implemented under the hood, and looks at the generated bytecode and performance implications.

Mario Fusco Richard Warburton Raoul Urma
on Oct 07, 2014
The Agile Coaches' Coach Shares Her View on SAFe

This article conveys one agile coach’s journey coming to terms with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Lyssa Adkins shares her thoughts about SAFe and the Agile Manifesto from the viewpoint of the discipline of agile coaching. She explains how using biased views can help us to look out wider and farther to develop a "Yes AND" approach, combining SAFe with Scrum.

Lyssa Adkins
on Oct 06, 2014
Working Together, Sitting Apart

There are essentially two factors that determine whether your offshoring adventure is successful or not – people and process. This article is the first article in a series on managing remote teams, sharing experiences in developing a process for remote collaboration. As people sit apart in (several) remote locations, extra attention must be paid to articulating how people work together.

Hugo Messer
on Oct 05, 2014
A Rails Enthusiast’s take on MEAN.js

John looks at AngularJS and the MEAN stack as an alternative to Ruby on Rails as a productive stack for building typical web applications.

John Troxel
on Oct 03, 2014
Book Review and Q&A on Being Agile: Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile

The book Being Agile: Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile by Mario E. Moreira aims to help organizations to adopt and agile mindset and culture to deploy agile methods and practices. It provides a roadmap that can be used to consider, understand, deploy and adapt agile in organizations and explains how you can empower teams and incorporate customer feedback using agile practices.

Ben Linders
on Oct 02, 2014
Introduction to Red Gate’s SQL Source Control

It’s unthinkable for modern application developers to work without source control. The benefits it brings to software development are so well and so long understood that even lone hobbyist developers will tend to employ a source control system. Yet somehow, databases are often left out. David Atkinson shows how this doesn’t have to be the case with Red Gate’s SQL Source Control.

David Atkinson
on Oct 01, 2014
DevOps in Telecoms – Is It Possible?

Joachim Bauernberger shares his experience working in the Telecom industry and reminds us how DevOps can help further improve what Agile started in a hardware dependent world. Hardware integrations and multiple feature streams can lead to integration and testing silos that need to be streamlined. DevOps practices and mindset are key to achieve that.

Joachim Bauernberger
on Sep 30, 2014
Book Review: Pro Website Development and Operations

Overall the book is a quick read that provides some useful insights and potential starting points for enterprise practitioners and technical managers in medium to large enterprises where development and operations are still very defensive towards each other (often driven by conflicting goals) and where a blame culture reigns.

Manuel Pais
on Sep 29, 2014

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