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Book Review and Interview with Brian Wernham about Agile Project Management for Government

The book agile project management for government gives cases of agile in Ggvernmental organizations. Brian Wernham describes agile leadership behaviors, based upon the agile manifesto, and give guidance for adapting agile in governmental organizations. InfoQ did an interview with Brian about his book on agile leadership and how to apply practices from Scrum and DSDM in governmental projects.

Ben Linders
on Jul 18, 2013
Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 2

In Part 2 of this article the author takes a look at how the transaction system is implemented, the role of the administrative layer, how all components work together and what to expect in the future.

Seth Proctor
on Jul 17, 2013
Correctly Building Asynchronous Libraries in .NET

Building an asynchronous library requires very specific design patterns that can be quite different from the patterns used when consuming an asynchronous library. But if you follow some basic rules you can greatly improve the experience for the consumers of your libraries.

Jonathan Allen
on Jul 16, 2013
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G1: One Garbage Collector To Rule Them All

Many articles describe how a poorly tuned garbage collector can bring an application's SLA commitments to its knees. Oracle's new G1 Collector in HotSpot moves away from the conventional GC model, where a Java heap splits into (contiguous) young and old generations, and instead introduces the concept of “regions”, for a generally more performant and manageable GC.

Monica Beckwith
on Jul 15, 2013
Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 1

In Part 1 of this article the author introduces NuoDB and covers some of its main features: 3-tiered architecture, nodes are equal peers, Atoms - the fundamental data unit, and the versioning and concurrency system used to handle data update conflicts and implement consistency.

Seth Proctor
on Jul 12, 2013
From Groovy to Java 8

From new syntax for functional programming styles, to lambdas, collection streaming, and method references as first class citizens, Groovy developers will have an edge when writing Java code in the future. This article will focus on the commonalities between Groovy and Java 8, and will demonstrate how familiar Groovy concepts translate to Java 8.

Dan Woods
on Jul 11, 2013
The Virtual Tug of War

Technology professionals have always fought an unrelenting war not dissimilar to feud between the Hatfields and McCoys – a continuous conflict with no winners. In the world of IT, this is a battle over security and performance fought by security professionals and network administrators. These two factions have always had to barter and maintain an uneasy truce in organizations in order to survive.

Michael Rothschild
on Jul 10, 2013
Spoilt for Choice – How to choose the right Big Data / Hadoop Platform?

In his new article Kai Wähner compares several alternatives for installing a version of Hadoop and realizing big data processes. He compares distributions and tooling from Apache and many other vendors including Cloudera, HortonWorks, MapR, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft. He additionally describes pros and cons of every distribution and provides a decision tree for choosing a most appropriate one.

Kai Wähner
on Jul 09, 2013
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2013

The main takeway points and lessons learned from QCon New York 2013 as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Experience QCon through the opinions of the attendees!

Abel Avram
on Jul 09, 2013
The 4 Questions of a Retrospective and Why They Work

A Retrospective is a valuable way to improve how your team works together by reflecting on what has come before and using what you have learned to move ahead together. The authors present a structure with four simple questions to help you get started with using retrospectives in your team environment.

Collin Lyons Laura M. Waite
on Jul 08, 2013
The Technology behind Codenvy. An Interview with Tyler Jewell, CEO

Codenvy is an online IDE supporting applications development in Java, JavaScript, HTML5, PHP, Ruby and other languages, with built-in support for deploying the apps on a PaaS. This article includes an interview with Tyler Jewell, CEO, detailing some of the technologies behind Codenvy.

Abel Avram
on Jul 07, 2013
Zato - Python-based ESB and Backend Application Server

Zato is an open-source ESB and application server written in Python. It is designed to integrate systems in SOA and to build backend applications (i.e. API only).

Dariusz Suchojad
on Jul 06, 2013

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