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Seven Steps to Create an Unbeatable Enterprise Mobility Strategy

As mobility is transforming our lives, this article gives a step-by-step approach on how enterprises can seamlessly connect their mobile workforce to back-end systems for increased productivity. Covering topics like business goal definition, API and data security or user experience it provides a broad overview on what to keep in mind while planning an enterprise mobility strategy.

Arun Bhattacharya
on Apr 01, 2014
Interview with Tobias Mayer about the People’s Scrum and AgileLib

The people’s Scrum by Tobias Mayer is a collection of essays covering topics like self-organizing, team working, craftsmanship, technical debt, estimation, retrospectives, culture and Scrum adoption. InfoQ interviewed Tobias about the importance of people, teams and self organization with Scrum and about AgileLib.net, a new initiative for sharing agile resources.

Ben Linders
on Mar 31, 2014
DevOps

Orchestrating Your Delivery Pipelines with Jenkins

Following up on his previous article on preparing for CD in the enterprise, Andrew Phillips reviews state-of-the-art plugins and solutions in the Jenkins ecosystem for achieving efficient, reproducible and secure delivery pipelines. Helped by none other than Jenkins creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi Andrew Phillips
on Mar 29, 2014
How to Protect Valuable or Personal Data on PC, Hard Drive and Flash Drive

Approximately 60% of all computers sold worldwide today are portable. Portable computers are taken everywhere, making them an easy target for criminals, especially for the private data they contain. Even a failed hard drive that you send back to your vendor for warranty is a potentially at risk. How can your personal data be protected? With one word - encryption!

Sergey Solomatin
on Mar 28, 2014
Pair Painting

Victoria was painting her kitchen last week and it got her thinking about pair programming. She and her partner have painted rooms together before, and they've ended up with something they've been really proud of, but when she did this alone, even though she has the skills and the knowledge, it didn't end up as good. She wondered why?

Victoria Morgan-Smith
on Mar 27, 2014
NoSQL, JSON, and Time Series Data Management: Interview with Anuj Sahni

Time series data management is gaining more attention lately because the data is coming at us from all directions: sensors, mobile devices, Web tracking, financial events, factory automation, and utilities. InfoQ spoke with Anuj Sahni, Principal Product Manager at Oracle about the time series data and how to do data modeling for this type of data.

Srini Penchikala
on Mar 26, 2014
Remote Working Works

Do you assume that remote working is a compromise? Around 5 years ago my team, and much of our software house, decided we could work as effectively from home. Many of us left London and headed to the country, replacing bars and restaurants with poultry keeping and mountain biking. Today we are closer, collaborate more, recruit better people and work more effectively than we ever did.

Tom Howlett
on Mar 24, 2014
Virtual Panel on Immutable Infrastructure

“Immutable Infrastructure” is a term that has been increasingly talked about lately among the Ops community. InfoQ reached out to experienced ops engineers to ask them what is the definition and borders of immutable infrastructure as well as its benefits and drawbacks, in particular when compared to current widespread “desired state” configuration management solutions.

Manuel Pais
on Mar 22, 2014
Measuring Architecture Sustainability

In this article, authors discuss Morphosis, a multi-perspective measuring approach for architecture sustainability that includes evolution scenario analysis, architecture compliance checking, and tracking of architecture-level code metrics. These perspectives include change-prone requirements, technology choices, architecture erosion, and modularization best practices.

Philipp Vorst Thomas Goldschmidt Heiko Koziolek Dominik Domis
on Mar 20, 2014
SQL Server 2014: NoSQL Speeds with Relational Capabilities

For the last four years Microsoft has been working on the first rewrite of SQL Server’s query execution since 1998. The goal is to offer NoSQL-like speeds without sacrificing the capabilities of a relational database. At the heart of this is Hekaton, their memory optimized tables. While still accessible via traditional T-SQL operations, internally they are a fundamentally different technology.

Jonathan Allen
on Mar 19, 2014
Java

Exploring Micro-Frameworks: Spring Boot

Get started with Spring Boot, a Java-orientated micro-frameworks. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install it, develop a Spring Boot app, develop a microservice step by step, also checking for security and how to package your Spring Boot app. It includes code snippets.

Dan Woods
on Mar 18, 2014
Scrum Master Allocation: The Case for a Dedicated Scrum Master

Sharing scrum masters across teams sounds like a great way to cut costs and stretch limited budgets in agile organizations. But you might not be saving as much as you think with this approach– you could even be losing money. Discover the true impact of timesharing your agile coaches, and learn about implications for your financial bottom line that you probably have not considered.

Melinda Stelzer Jacobson
on Mar 17, 2014