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Book Review and Interview: Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John

Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John, provides performance tuning advice for both Java SE and EE applications. Specifically, it provides information on performance monitoring, profiling, tuning HotSpot, and Java EE application performance tuning. InfoQ reviews the book, and talks to the authors about their approach.

Charles Humble
on Feb 01, 2012
New Book: Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio

“Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio – from Concept to Continuous Feedback” is a new book that provides a deep-dive into the Visual Studio-TFS features, that can help Agile teams manage their application lifecycle better. It is written by Sam Guckenheimer (Product Owner, Visual Studio Strategy at Microsoft) and Neno Loje (Independent ALM Consultant and TFS specialist).

Roopesh Shenoy
on Jan 26, 2012
Interview and Book Excerpt: Service Design Patterns

"Service Design Patterns" catalogs design patterns that cover the entire lifecycle of web services. This book is the latest addition to the Martin Fowler signature series which also contains a section on consumer driven contracts contributed by Ian Robinson. InfoQ talked to Rob Daigneau, the author of the book, regarding various topics related to the core idea behind "Service Design Patterns".

Jeevak Kasarkod
on Jan 20, 2012
Codesign Challenges for Exascale Systems: Performance, Power, and Reliability

In this IEEE article, authors talks about how a codesign methodology using modeling can benefit exascale computing systems with improved performance, power efficiency, and reliability. The five factors discussed in the codesign process are algorithms, application, programming model, runtime system, and hardware architecture.

Kevin J. Barker Abhinav Vishnu Darren J. Kerbyson Adolfy Hoisie
on Jan 17, 2012
Oracle and the Java Ecosystem

Oracle is making huge efforts to engage with the wider Java ecosystem, but challenges still remain.

Charles Humble
on Jan 16, 2012
Implementing Lucene Spatial Support

Lucene geospatial extension proposed in this article is based on a two level search – first level search is based on Cartesian Grid search and the second level implements shape specific spatial calculations

Boris Lublinsky
on Jan 13, 2012
Design for Testability – The True Story

Testing is a major activity in any development lifecycle - a large part of a project budget is spent on it. If we want to effectively use it, the ease of testing should be addressed from the early stages of building the system.

Gil Zilberfeld
on Jan 12, 2012
Interview and Book Review: Programming Concurrency on the JVM

In his latest book "Programming Concurrency on the JVM" author Venkat Subramaniam talks about the concurrency techniques using different JVM programming languages. He also discusses Software Transactional Memory (STM) and Actor-based Concurrency. InfoQ spoke with Venkat about his new book.

Srini Penchikala
on Jan 10, 2012
Software Engineering Meets Services and Cloud Computing

In this IEEE article, authors Stephen Yau and Ho An talk about application development using service-oriented architecture and cloud computing technologies. They also discuss application development challenges like security in a multi-tenant environment, quality-of-service monitoring, and mobile computing.

Stephen S. Yau Ho G. An
on Jan 04, 2012
Dialogue Sheets: A new tool for retrospectives

Dialogue sheets allow teams to hold facilitator-less retrospectives. They promote self-organization and encourage everyone to speak in the exercise. This results in great levels of participation in and higher energy levels in teams. The sheet itself is A1 in size, 8 times larger than a regular sheet, pre printed with instructions and questions to motivation discussion.

Allan Kelly
on Jan 03, 2012
Integrating Lucene with HBase

The article describes overall design and implementation of integrating Lucene search library with HBase back end. It describes integration architecture, implementation and HBase tables design

Boris Lublinsky Mike Segel
on Dec 29, 2011
The Rise of Application Analytics: A New Game Demands New Rules

When developers know how their applications are really being used “in the wild,” they will build better software, more efficiently, and with greater confidence. Sebastian Holst shows you how using application analytics.

Sebastian Holst
on Dec 27, 2011

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