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Quantifying the Impact of Agile Software Development Practices

Rally Software and Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) are researching the impact of agile software development practices using data from Rally’s Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform. InfoQ interviewed Larry Maccherone and Jim McCurley about their collaboration, measurements from the study, conclusions from the analysis and plans for further research.

Ben Linders
on Jul 03, 2014
VRaptor MVC Framework; Powerful Simplicity

VRaptor's latest version 4 CDI MVC framework is now available. In this article we take a tour of how to use this simple but powerful framework to build web applications

Rodrigo Turini
on Jul 02, 2014
Virtual Panel: Configuration Management Tools in the Real World

Configuration management tools are a hot topic on the DevOps community and IT organizations in general. InfoQ reached out to users of each of the major tools (Ansible, CFEngine, Chef, Puppet and SaltStack) to ask them about their experiences. Why did they choose a given tool? How was the tool introduced in the organization? These are some of the questions they answered.

João Miranda
on Jul 01, 2014
How to Ideate? Be a Hunter

Having a hard time choosing an idea for a business? Have no ideas or worried your ideas are no good? You're in good company. Nearly every first idea is bad. It's not about the ideas but about the process. Keep at it. When you miss, learn from it and take another shot. Study your prey. Be an idea hunter.

Jeremy Stanton
on Jun 30, 2014
Preparing for Scale: InfoQ Virtual Roundtable with Cloud Practitioners

How should organizations plan for a cloud environment and optimize it for efficiency at scale? InfoQ reached out to 3 leading cloud practitioners to uncover practical advice on this topic. Each panelist has dealt with the sometimes-messy transition from on-premises to cloud, and coached organizations through their journey.

Richard Seroter
on Jun 29, 2014
Making an Impact on 7000 Orphanages

Ahmad presents a set of useful techniques that can be applied in strategic workshop or in an initial product backlog session. He tells the story of how the techniques were used in a strategy workshop held in Cairo for a NGO who seeks to raise the standards for all orphanages across Egypt.

Ahmad Fahmy
on Jun 28, 2014
Article Series: Configuration Management Tools

Configuration management is the foundation that makes modern infrastructure possible. Tools that enable configuration management are required in the toolbox of any operations team, and many development teams as well. Although all the tools aim to solve the same basic set of problems, they adhere to different visions and exhibit different characteristics.

João Miranda
on Jun 27, 2014
Book Review: Integration Testing from the Trenches

In this important and thorough treatise “Integration Testing from the Trenches” Nicolas Frankel starts from basic definitions and develops the concepts of integration testing with a casual formalism that's intuitive and fun.

Victor Grazi
on Jun 27, 2014
Java

God-Mode in Production Code

Takipi is trying to level out the playing field between dev and prod debugging by making it just as easy to debug Java and Scala code in production as it is on your desktop. It detects errors and exceptions in server code, provides analytics to help prioritize them, and captures the source code and values of variables that caused them.

Tal Weiss
on Jun 26, 2014
Data Modeling with Key Value NoSQL Data Stores – Interview with Casey Rosenthal

In Key Value data stores, data is represented as a collection of key–value pairs. The key–value model is one of the simplest non-trivial data models, and richer data models are implemented on top of it. InfoQ spoke with Casey Rosenthal from Basho team about the data modeling concepts and best practices when using these NoSQL databases for data management.

Srini Penchikala
on Jun 25, 2014
CFEngine's Decentralized Approach to Configuration Management

Mark Burgess and Diego Zamboni introduce CFEngine. They describe the challenges regarding web scale - scale, complexity and knowledge - and how CFEngine helps to tackle those challenges with a fundamentally decentralized and knowledge-oriented approach. An example demonstrates how those ideas translate into practice.

Diego Zamboni Mark Burgess
on Jun 24, 2014
Article Series: Automation in the Cloud and Management at Scale

Cloud computing is more than just fast self-service of virtual infrastructure. Developers and admins are looking for ways to provision and manage at scale. This InfoQ article series will focus on automation tools and ideas for maintaining dynamic pools of compute resources.

Richard Seroter
on Jun 23, 2014

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