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  • Interview and Book Review: Essential Scrum

    Essential Scrum by Kenny Rubin is a book about getting more out of Scrum. It’s an introduction to Scrum and its values, principles and practices, and a source of inspiration on how to apply it.

    Ben Linders
    on Dec 04, 2012

  • Unit Testing Hadoop MapReduce Jobs With MRUnit, Mockito, & PowerMock

    Hadoop MapReduce jobs have a unique code architecture that raises interesting issues for test-driven development. In this article Michael Spicuzza provides a real-world example using MRUnit, Mockito, and PowerMock to solve these problems.

    Michael Spicuzza
    on Dec 03, 2012

  • Metrics-Driven Development

    In this article the author shares his thoughts and experience gathered while working together with DEV teams, trying to make sense of metrics. He introduces the practice of Metrics-Driven-Development: using metrics to drive the entire application development.

    Mantas Klasavičius
    on Nov 30, 2012

  • PaaS Is The Word

    This article presents a transition path to Platform-as-a-Service for IT. An exploration of the steps from pre-virtualization or virtualization through selecting and operating a PaaS.

    JP Morgenthal
    on Nov 29, 2012

  • Interview and Book Review: NoSQL Distilled

    InfoQ spoke with both authors of the book, Pramod and Martin Fowler about NoSQL database space, the emerging trends in NoSQL.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Nov 29, 2012

  • Implementing Pub/Sub based on AWS technologies

    Publish Subscribe is an important component of many real life implementations. In this article Boris Lublinsky shows how to combene several of-the-shelf AWS components to build simple, yet flexible and powerful PubSub Service

    Boris Lublinsky
    on Nov 27, 2012

  • Book Review: The Scrum Field Guide

    Mitch Lacey has written the book The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year in which he presents advice on how to implement many of the Scrum and XP practices. Shane Hastie from InfoQ reviewed the book and asked the author some questions about the approach. The publishers have made a sample chapter available for InfoQ readers.

    Shane Hastie
    on Nov 26, 2012

  • Making Architecture Matter

    In this article, authors describe how they used the corporate management system to communicate architecture requirements to all the architecture stakeholders in a large organization and how this transformation helped them achieve benefits like application and infrastructure stability.

    Harald Wesenberg Einar Landre
    on Nov 22, 2012

  • The State of NoSQL

    Stefan Edlich, Senior Lecturer at Beuth HS of Technology Berlin, Germany, reviews NoSQL, considering its evolution, financial impact, the standards or their lack of, the current landscape, books, the leaders and some newcomers, concluding that NoSQL is here to stay.

    Stefan Edlich
    on Nov 21, 2012

  • Hadoop Virtual Panel

    In this virtual panel, InfoQ talks to several Hadoop vendors and users about their views at current and future state of Hadoop and the things that are the most important for Hadoop’s further adoption and success.

    Boris Lublinsky
    on Nov 20, 2012

  • The Prioritization Divide: With Numbers or Without?

    While there are many methods that use stories as a means for prioritizing development, there's a basic divide that asks whether it should be done with numbers or without. There are arguments on both sides, but instead of examining these, people tend to fall into one side naturally. Once there, they can become quickly entrenched in the belief that the other camp is foolishly mistaken.

    Alex Adamopoulos Paul Dolman-Darrall
    on Nov 19, 2012

  • An Alternative to Agile Coaching

    Phil Abernathy asserts that the role of the Agile Coach may be due to sunset - he proposes an alternate based on his vision of an Agile Practitioner Manager embedded within an agile team. The Agile Practitioner Manager will have "skin in the game" being responsible not just for helping the team with their process but also being accountable for the deliver of customer value through the product.

    Phil Abernathy
    on Nov 16, 2012
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