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The Need to Focus on App Delivery Lifecycle in PaaS

An App Delivery Platform-as-a-Service is not only a development platform. It is also a social platform, a deployment platform, and a user engagement platform. An App Delivery Platform-asa-Service is all about delivering apps that perfectly fit the business, it’s about creating business value, it’s about enabling the business to be successful!

Johan Den Haan
on Mar 15, 2012
Martin Odersky on Typesafe Stack and the Future of Scala

In this interview with InfoQ's Editor in Chief, Michael Floyd, Martin Odersky draws the comparisons between F# and Scala, discusses the future of Scala, and addresses once and for all the question of breaking binary compatibility. He also discusses his current work on the implementation of the value class proposal, how Java might support functional programming and the new Typesafe Stack 2.0.

Michael Floyd
on Mar 12, 2012
Architecture & Design

Healthy Architectures - Using CQRS and Event Sourcing for Electronic Medical Records

The health care industry has been migrating to electronic medical/health records (EMR/EHR) for some time. Hopwever, problems such as performance and scalability, along with maintaining traceability and reconstructing healthcare related business events need to be addressed. The article introduces the use of techniques and patterns for providing these quality attributes.

Arunava Chatterjee
on Mar 12, 2012
Optimizing ORM Performance

Some developers dislike using object-relational mappers (ORMs) as they’ve had bad experiences with performance. This article covers some basic techniques to optimize the performance when working with an ORM and still getting all the benefits of Object-Relational mapping.

John-Daniel Trask
on Mar 07, 2012
Generating Avro Schemas from XML Schemas Using JAXB

Apache Avro is an up and coming binary marshalling framework. In his new article Benjamin Fagin explains how one can leverage existing XSD tooling to create data definitions and then use XJC plugin to directly generate AVRO schemes and marshaling classes.

Benjamin Fagin
on Mar 06, 2012
Verification and Validation for Trustworthy Software Systems

In this IEEE article, authors discuss a continuous verification and validation of complex and safety-critical software systems using techniques like statechart assertions, runtime execution monitoring, and scenario-based testing.

Thomas W. Otani Man-Tak Shing James Bret Michael Doron Drusinsky
on Mar 05, 2012
Communicate Business Value to Your Stakeholders

Often project leaders—even Agile project leaders—talk about their projects in terms of features. Yes, and what do features really mean for stakeholders? Features are what your system or process can do. Benefits are why people care. And benefits equal business value. Learn why and how to communicate benefits rather than features—and what it will mean for you, your team and your organization.

Jenni Jepsen
on Mar 05, 2012
Book on Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles by Leonid Grinshpan

Performance is one of the most critical attributes for enterprise applications. Even though not mentioned explicitly, properties such as response time or throughput are key issues that decide about user acceptance.Leonid Grinshpan, PhD and Consulting Director at Oracle Corporation, has dedicated his book "Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles" to this topic.

Michael Stal
on Feb 29, 2012
Agile Development Team Charter

Project Charters have rightfully focused on scope & goals for the project. However, team members can be unclear on their roles, activities, and expectations. This is especially true for people new to Agile. The Agile Development Team Charter addresses this gap by reviewing the Agile Prime Directive, Incremental Innovation Statements, and Team Member User Stories to provide clarity and context.

Terry Bunio
on Feb 27, 2012
Evolution in Data Integration From EII to Big Data

With the emergence of inexpensive cloud-based storage and cost-effective ways to process large volumes and complex data there has been a shift in approach toward data integration.

JP Morgenthal
on Feb 22, 2012
Faster, Better, Higher – But How?

One of the main challenges when designing software architecture is the consideration of quality attributes. Not only their design turns out to be difficult, but also the specification of these attributes. Consequently, many problems in software systems are directly related to the specification and design of quality attributes such as modifiability or performance, to name just a few.

Michael Stal
on Feb 20, 2012
Interview and Book Review: The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java

"The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java" book covers the rules for secure coding using Java programming language and its libraries with the goal to help Java developers eliminate insecure coding practices that can lead to vulnerable code. InfoQ spoke with book authors about how the security rules discussed in the book compare to other security coding frameworks.

Srini Penchikala
on Feb 15, 2012

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