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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • The 12 Days of Agile Christmas

    In the spirit of the season we bring you the 12 Days of Christmas in Agile projects.

  • Succeeding with Dependency Injection

    While the principal pattern is easy to understand it can be difficult to succeed with Dependency Injection without considering the larger context. DI is an application of the principle of Inversion of Control and to succeed with IoC you’ll also need to invert your thinking. This article provides a sketch of the mental model you need to adopt to succeed with DI.

  • Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing: Rethinking web application architectures for the cloud

    Not all data is sensitive and hence an equal and balanced investment in securing all data categories is not justified. This article presents an architecture that leverages cloud-computing, cloud-storage and enterprise key-management Infrastructure(EKMI) to lower costs while complying to data-security regulations.

  • Everything Is PaaSible

    In this article, William Vambenepe takes a look at PaaS as an enabler; especially in the enterprise; that will afford business advantages in terms of cost, time to market and choice of tools. He suggests that the paradigm shift from machine-centric design to PaaS is a big leap in application design, that will enable application developers to always use the right tool for the job.

  • Feature Injection: three steps to success

    Often Customers provide half baked solutions with no linkage to value. An Agile team needs examples linked to the Business Value they provide. Feature Injection is a process that takes a half baked solution identifies the Business Value it provides and then produces a set of examples driven from that value.

  • Rick Kazman on Evaluating Software Architectures

    Evaluating software architectures is a critical part of the software architecture lifecycle processes. The book "Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies" covers the software architecture evaluation topic in detail focusing on different architecture evaluation frameworks. InfoQ spoke with Rick Kazman, co-author of the book on the architecture evaluation topic.

  • Virtual Panel: PaaS Present and Future

    Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a delivery of a computing platform over the web. PaaS enables agility, and provides a low cost alternative to buying and managing complex software and/or hardware. InfoQ had a chance to conduct a virtual panel to explore the world of PaaS, the different flavors that it comes in, its relevance in the enterprise and get a sense for the future of PaaS ecosystem.

  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2011

    This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Advancing Agile to the Next stage with Lean, Agile in the Midlife, Architecture Case Studies, Beautiful Code, Big Data and NoSQL, Functional Web, Cross Platform Mobile Development, HTML5 & JavaScript, Systems That Never Stop and many more!

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