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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
Interview and Book Review: Spring Integration in Action

Spring Integration in Action book, authored by Mark Fisher, Jonas Partner, Marius Bogoevici and Iwein Fuld, covers the Spring Integration framework which provides an implementation of Enterprise Integration Patterns based on Spring programming model. InfoQ spoke with authors about the book, Spring Integration framework, its strengths and limitations.

Srini Penchikala
on Nov 14, 2012
A Step by Step Guide to Lean ALM

Last time we looked at Lean ALM from a high level perspective. This article Dave West builds on that by discussing how one can gradually introduce Lean ALM to established teams.

Dave West
on Nov 12, 2012
Agile Performance Reviews

Why go an entire year before receiving feedback? Nothing else in the Agile world waits a year, why would feedback? Struggling to make feedback objective? Perhaps objectivity is the wrong goal perhaps reviews should be subjective. Ryan Hagan offers his approach to doing performance reviews with an Agile Team.

Ryan Hagan
on Nov 09, 2012
Introduction to Interface-Driven Development Using Swagger and Scalatra

Since it began life a little over three years ago, the Scalatra web micro-framework has evolved into a lightweight but full-featured MVC framework with a lively community behind it. Scalatra started out as a port of Ruby's Sinatra to the Scala language. Since then the two systems have evolved independently, with Scalatra gaining capabilities such as an Atmosphere integration and Akka support.

Dave Hrycyszyn
on Nov 06, 2012
Detection of Mobile Malware in the Wild

In this article, authors talk about new techniques for detecting mobile malware to help protect smartphones from security threats. The techniques include Static analysis, Dynamic analysis, Application permission analysis, Cloud-based detection, Battery life monitoring. They also discuss smartphone protection tips and best practices.

Hee Beng Kuan Tan Mahinthan Chandramohan
on Nov 05, 2012
The Architecture of Datomic

Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, explains the architecture of Datomic - a new database designed as a composition of simple services, combining the capabilities of RDBMS and scalability of NoSQL.

Rich Hickey
on Nov 02, 2012
Julien Nioche on Apache Nutch 2 Features and Product Roadmap

Open source web-search framework Apache Nutch version 2 supports large scale crawling, link-graph database and HTML parsing. InfoQ spoke with Julien Nioche, VP of Apache Nutch project, about the framework new features and its future roadmap.

Srini Penchikala
on Nov 01, 2012
Blueprint for a Big Data Solution

In his new article Jonathan Natkins explains how to use components of Apache Hadoop, including Flume, Hive and Oozie to implement a typical Data management system. He also gives a practical example of such architecture to measure Twitter user’s influence.

Jonathan Natkins
on Oct 31, 2012
Now is the Time for Lean ALM

In this article we examine why organizations need to transition to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and what we can learn from Lean thinking in transforming ALM from an inflexible, expensive, dogmatic approach to one more able to reduce waste and deliver measurable value.

Dave West
on Oct 30, 2012

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