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The Wide Range of DevOps

The changes necessary for DevOps adoption can be plotted on a timeline-style graph, where the extreme left represents traditional ops culture and practices, and the right represents a newer DevOps-style. In this view of the world, the question is not “Is your company practicing DevOps?” but instead is the more accurate “How strong of a DevOps culture has your company adopted?”

Mitchell Hashimoto
on Sep 13, 2012
Interview and Book Review: How Google Tests Software

"How Google Tests Software" by James Whittaker, Jason Arbon and Jeff Carollo is a book that details exactly what is described on the cover. It is an informative and interesting look beneath the covers of how a large technical organization like Google deals with the complexity of software testing.

Craig Smith
on Sep 11, 2012
Transitioning from RDBMS to NoSQL. Interview with Couchbase’s Dipti Borkar

While relational databases have been used for decades to store data, and they still represent a viable solution for many use cases, NoSQL is being chosen today especially for scalability and performance reasons. This article contains an interview with Dipti Borkar, Director of Product Management at Couchbase, on the challenges, benefits and the process of migrating from RDBMS to NoSQL.

Abel Avram
on Sep 08, 2012
Death by Agile Fever

Agile Fever is a condition that robs otherwise rational people of their common sense in regard to adoption and application of Agile based processes for developing software. Because the consequences of Agile Fever can be very impacting in terms of cost, schedule, and productivity, all software professionals have an obligation to educate themselves in recognizing the symptoms of the dreaded malady.

Alex Bell
on Sep 07, 2012
SaaS-ify Legacy Applications

Legacy applications can be difficult to move to the cloud, yet you may want to include them in your IT-as-a-Service strategy. This article discusses an approach to wrapping legacy applications for delivery as Software-as-a-Service.

Chen Ping
on Sep 06, 2012
Automated Error Reporting: The Gateway to Better Quality

Ignorance might be bliss, but it goes straight to the bottom line when it comes to software bugs. Those who can ferret out bugs and improve the quality of their software will be rewarded with greater customer trust, higher renewal rates, lower maintenance costs, and fewer opportunities for the competition. Laila Lotfi explains how automated error reporting aids in this endeavor.

Laila Lotfi
on Aug 28, 2012
The Contradictions of Technical Recruitment

Huw Lloyd identifies key interrelated contradictions of technical recruitment that implicate the desire for team cohesion, effectiveness and development. The normal methods of recruitment are questioned on the basis of numerous psychological insights, leading to compelling reasons to shift the focus towards greater interpersonal collaboration along with some pointers for how to achieve this.

Huw Lloyd
on Aug 27, 2012
The Pragmatic Architect - To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

In this article, author Frank Buschmann talks about the architectural importance of the interaction between system components than within the components. He discusses three secrets of pragmatic architects: Uncover Hidden Domain Concepts, Be Where Things Meet and Use Uncertainty as a Driver.

Frank Buschmann
on Aug 24, 2012
Using Kanban to Turn Around Distressed Projects

This case study describes how Kanban and lean development techniques were used to rescue a distressed project that had violated its budget, schedule, and quality constraints. The article presents a detailed account of how the techniques were introduced mid-project to establish control over a chaotic project environment, and is supported with several charts that show the team’s progress.

Steve Andrews
on Aug 22, 2012
Continuous Mobile Application Testing

Given the onslaught of mobile devices and apps into the SDLC, fingers and eyeballs seem to be the only way apps can be tested right now. But manual testing drastically slows down the development process, leaves a huge margin for error, and ultimately lowers the team’s ability to release quality software in a short amount of time. Dan Bartow of SOASTA hopes to offer something better.

Dan Bartow
on Aug 21, 2012
Do we really need identity propagation in SOA and Clouds?

Identity Propagation through Single Sign-On(SSO) has been assumed to be a panacea for all identity issues in SOA and Clouds. In this article, Michael Poulin raises questions around the business feasibility of propagation and proposes a delegate model of representation instead.

Michael Poulin
on Aug 20, 2012
Interview with Arun Murthy on Apache YARN

Apache Hadoop YARN – a new Hadoop resource manager - has just been promoted to a high level Hadoop subproject. InfoQ had the chance to discuss YARN with Arun Murthy - founder and architect at Hortonworks.

Boris Lublinsky
on Aug 17, 2012

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