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Moving Channel9.msdn.com to Windows Azure

Imagine if architects had to be the janitor for every building they designed. With an understaffed Channel 9 development team handling production support on a web farm built from mismatched servers, something had to be done. When Windows Azure was launched in the summer of 2010 the development team saw it as a way to hand off support and return to building features.

Duncan Mackenzie
on Nov 07, 2011
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Uncovering mysteries of InputFormat: Providing better control for your Map Reduce execution.

In their article authors, Boris Lublinsky and Mike Segel, show how to leverage custom InputFormat class implementation to tighter control execution strategy of Maps in Hadoop Map Reduce jobs.

Boris Lublinsky Mike Segel
on Nov 04, 2011
Interview and Book Review: Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, 2nd Edition

The book "Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond" covers the software architecture documentation and how to express an architecture so that the developers can design, build and maintain a system from it. InfoQ spoke with Paulo Merson, co-author of the book on software architecture documentation and how it can help the design of software applications.

Srini Penchikala
on Nov 01, 2011
Finding the Right Data Solution for Your Application in the Data Storage Haystack

With the recent NoSQL movement there are several alternative data storage solutions available compared to the traditional relational databases. In this article, author Srinath Perera discusses the various data storage options and what to consider when choosing each of these solutions.

Srinath Perera
on Oct 26, 2011
An Overview of .NET/Mono Runtime Versions, Profiles, and Targeting Packs

The .NET/Mono Framework has never been a single, unified stack and over the years Microsoft and Novell added several new versions to cover Linux, OS X, and mobile devices. With the introduction of Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 we can expect one, maybe two more. In an attempt to clear up some of the confusion this article reintroduces all of the major profiles and many of the lessor know ones.

Jonathan Allen
on Oct 25, 2011
Interview and Book Review: Specification by Example

Gojko Adzic has written the book Specification by Example, explaining the set of techniques for describing the functional and behavioural aspects of a computer system in a way that they are useful to the development team (expressed ideally as executable tests), understandable by non-technical stakeholders and maintainable to remain relevant despite changing customer demands.

Shane Hastie
on Oct 24, 2011
The Essence of Google Dart: Building Applications, Snapshots, Isolates

Google has previewed Dart, a new language with a VM but also a JS compiler. InfoQ looks beyond the grammar at Dart's contributions for building apps: Snapshots, Isolates, Modularity.

Werner Schuster
on Oct 24, 2011
Test automation and Continuous Delivery

This article shows how automating certain programmable aspects of a test suite can help software delivery. Covered are automated testing, costs per deployment, tests as documentation & manual testing.

Ranjan D Sakalley
on Oct 21, 2011
How REST replaced SOAP on the Web: What it means to you

The number of REST APIs has grown dramatically over the last 5 years. However, most developers are still struggling to find an agreed upon definition of a RESTful Architecture leading to a lot of inconsistencies in the way these APIs are implemented. This article details how Mule iON, an Integration Platform as a Service, provides a consistent way to expose APIs and API mashups.

Ross Mason
on Oct 20, 2011
Mobile Attacks and Defense

In this IEEE article, author Charlie Miller talks about the mobile security vulnerabilities. He explains how smart phones are becoming targets of attackers and discusses security models of two smart phone operating systems: Apple's iOS and Google's Android. The attackers can get remote code to run on a mobile device in two ways: mobile malware and drive-by downloads.

Charlie Miller
on Oct 17, 2011
Agile is at a crossroad: Scale or fail?

Risk management is the hottest topic in IT. Processes for effective risk management and investment decision making will allow Agile techniques to scale beyond projects to the enterprise. Without them, Agile will be confined to the ghetto of development. In this article Chris and Olav present some tools and techniques to identify and manage risks on Agile projects.

Chris Matts Olav Maassen
on Oct 14, 2011
Integrating PHP with .NET Using Phalanger

Phalanger can be used to create solutions that combine .NET and PHP in ways that are not possible with the standard PHP interpreter. Thanks to Phalanger extensions, PHP programs can directly use .NET classes and .NET programs can dynamically invoke PHP scripts or use functions and classes implemented in PHP.

Tomas Petricek
on Oct 12, 2011

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