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  • Java

    Introducing Spring XD, a Runtime Environment for Big Data Applications

    Spring XD (eXtreme Data) is Pivotal’s Big Data play. It joins Spring Boot and Grails as part of the execution portion of the Spring IO platform. Whilst Spring XD makes use of a number of existing Spring projects it is a runtime environment rather than a library or framework, comprising a bin directory with servers that you start up and interact with via a shell.

    Charles Humble
    on Jul 23, 2014

  • A JIRA List Is Not A Scrum Product Backlog

    A well managed backlog should contain a manageable set of Product Backlog Items (PBIs) that are of value to the customers & users of the resultant product. Keeping the right items at the right level of detail in the backlog takes careful management. This article presents some techniques for managing the backlog and provides examples from the authors' experiences.

    Tim Born Craig Larman
    on Jul 22, 2014

  • Seven Changes to Remove Waste From Your Software Development Process

    This is a story about implementing Lean Software Development in a software vendor house for about 2 years, during which seven major changes have gradually been implemented that have helped the R&D department to remove waste from their software development process with encouraging results.

    Cecil Dijoux
    on Jul 21, 2014

  • A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Software Reuse in Mobile Apps

    In this article, authors discuss a case study of several Android mobile apps to analyze software reuse in terms of inheritance and code reuse as well as framework reuse of whole apps.

    Thorsten Berger Israel J. Mojica Ahmed E. Hassan Meiyappan Nagappan Bram Adams Steffen Dienst
    on Jul 20, 2014

  • What Are Self-Organising Teams?

    There is relatively little material on what self-organising teams are about and how to support them effectively. This first article from a series of on Leading Self-Organising Teams explores what self-organising teams are.

    Peter Hundermark Sigi Kaltenecker
    on Jul 18, 2014

  • HaMIS: One 24/7 Product and Four Scrum Teams, Four Years Later

    This is a story about four cross-functional scrum/DevOps/feature teams delivering and managing a business-critical 24/7 system used by vessel-traffic services operators and many other users, a compendium of topics that derive from our more than four years of agile and scrum practices at the Port of Rotterdam, one of the world's busiest ports.

    Viktor Grgic
    on Jul 17, 2014

  • Unusual Ways to Create a Mobile App

    There are hundreds of thousands of mobile applications for nearly every purpose in the iOS or Android app stores. Usually they are created with Objective-C toolstacks for iOS devices and Java based for Android handsets. In this article we would like to show you two not so common ways to build native apps with Java and Xtend which help to share code between both worlds and simplify development.

    Niklas Therning Sven Efftinge
    on Jul 16, 2014

  • A Roadmap to Agile Documentation

    The agile mindset lies on the premise that all the tasks in an application lifecycle create some kind of value to the client. But when it comes to documentation, teams can find it hard to find such value. This article provides an agile approach to the production of different types of documentation, in different phases of an application lifecycle, adapted to the different target audiences.

    Ester F. Gonçalves
    on Jul 15, 2014

  • Book Review: "Taste Test, 2nd edition" and Q& A with Matt Jaynes

    Taste Test, by Matt Jaynes, is a book that uses a simple scenario to compare Ansible, SaltStack, Chef and Puppet. On the recently released 2nd edition it adds new chapters on Docker, the communities around the tools, and how they fare on security. InfoQ took this opportunity to talk with Matt to know more about his thoughts on the tools and his approach to configuration management when consulting.

    João Miranda
    on Jul 14, 2014

  • Cindy Walker on Data Management Best Practices and Data Analytics Center of Excellence

    Cindy Walker spoke at Enterprise Data World Conference about using semantic approaches to augment the data management practices. InfoQ spoke with her about the data management best practices and the data analytics center of excellence initiative.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Jul 13, 2014
  • Web Development

    Virtual Panel: Real-world JavaScript MVC Frameworks

    JavaScript front-end codebases grow larger and more difficult to maintain. As a way to solve this issue developers have been turning to MVC frameworks which promise increased productivity and maintainable code. InfoQ asked the opinion of experts practitioners about how they use these frameworks and the best practices they follow when developing JavaScript applications.

    Dio Synodinos
    on Jul 11, 2014

  • Shift Left Performance Testing - a Different Approach

    This article will explain a different approach to traditional Multi User Performance testing; using the same tools but combine them with modern data visualisation techniques to gain early insight into location specific performance and application areas that may have "sleeping" performance issues.

    Bernhard Klemm
    on Jul 10, 2014
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