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Improving the Performance of Automatic Configuration Management Processes by Encouraging Human Intervention

In this case study, the pattern of automatic processes interlaced with human intervention provided bwin with an instrument to raise process efficiency in CM drastically. Furthermore, successes of the incorporation of human factors into change management was an increased visibility and appreciation of the context and importance of change amongst team members and stakeholders across the company.

Robert Schwegler
on Oct 13, 2009
Bringing in Social Content to Custom Applications with Apache Shindig

This article discusses how an OpenSocial implementation, Apache Shindig, can be used to alleviate some commonly-encountered issues with implementing OpenSocial gadgets. Topics covered include the OpenSocial standard, Shindig architecture, how Shindig can be used to bring social networking content to an application, and usage of Shindig for OpenSocial enablement of the Gypsii social network.

Boris Lublinsky
on Oct 09, 2009
Enhanced Detection of Malware

This article, from Intel, discusses significant new threats to host agents, outlines a generic architecture for malware detection, based on enhanced cloud computing, describes how Intel platform technologies can be used to enhance computing solutions, and ends with a threat analysis of the approaches presented. Malware that masks its presence from traditional security agents is the article focus.

and Yuriy Bulygin Carlos Rozas Hormuzd Khosravi Divya Kolar Sunder
on Sep 30, 2009
SOA and Service Identification

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been widely accepted as an approach that facilitates business agility by aligning IT with business. In this article, Rathina Dhandapani, highlights key best practices in an SOA initiative to identify, validate and verify service inventory content well before implementation.

Rathina Dhandapani
on Sep 29, 2009
OOPSLA Debate: Cloud Computing for the Wrong Reasons

Cloud Computing will be a central topic at OOPSLA 2009. This article states that the usefulness of Cloud Computing is highly overrated and the primary objective is to make (more) money. Whether you agree or disagree, please voice your opinion here at InfoQ so we can take it with us to OOPSLA for further debate. Better yet, join us on the 25th and 26th of October at OOPSLA 2009 Cloud Workshops!

Lars Arne Skår Morten Udnæs Ruth Lennon
on Sep 28, 2009
Interview and Book Excerpt: Mark Richards' Java Message Service 2nd Edition

Java Message Service, 2nd Edition, by Mark Richards, covers JMS topics such as the two programming models, publish-and-subscribe and point-to-point, Messaging Filtering and Transactions. InfoQ spoke with Mark about his new book. Topics covered in the interview include EJB 3.0, Spring Message Driven POJO's (MDP)and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture.

Srini Penchikala
on Sep 28, 2009
Modular Java: What Is It?

Over the last few years, modularity for Java has been an active discussion topic. From the (now defunct) JSR 277 to the recognition of JSR 291 and the ongoing JSR 294, modularity is seen as a necessary step in Java's evolution. Even future JVM-based languages like Scala are considering modularity. So, what does modularity mean, and why should you care?

Alex Blewitt
on Sep 23, 2009
Encrypting the Internet

The authors, from Intel, offer a three pronged approach to providing secure transmission of high volume HTML traffic: new CPU instructions to accelerate cryptographic operations; a novel implementation of the RSA algorithm to accelerate public key encryption; and using SMT to balance web server and cryptographic operations. Their approach, they claim, leads to significant cost savings.

Satyajit Grover Xiaozhu Kang Michael Kounavis andFrank Berry
on Sep 22, 2009
Patterns from "SOA Design Patterns" by Thomas Erl, Part 2

Patterns from Thomas Erl’s book, “SOA Design Patterns”. Today, we present Chapter 16, Service Governance Patterns, comprising a number of 8 patters. Compatible Change, Version Identification, Termination Notification, Service Refactoring, Service Decomposition, Proxy Capability, Decomposed Capability, and Distributed Capability.

Thomas Erl
on Sep 21, 2009
Building FlightCaster's Frontends for the Web and Smartphones

In part two of InfoQ's interview with the FlightCaster team, we discuss scaling Rails on Heroku, the problems of integrating data from multiple providers and mobile smartphone applications.

Werner Schuster
on Sep 18, 2009
Burndown Analysis for Managing Productivity & Schedules

Managing the productivity and the schedules on a project is always a big challenge due to the complexities involved in taking the decisions fast. We attempt to use the “Burndown” information to address this issue. We show how a burndown chart comes in handy when a Project team is faced with the tough questions on the issues pertaining to Schedule, Resource Management and Productivity.

Bharadwaj Velamakanni Ramanathan Sathianarayanan
on Sep 15, 2009
Getting started with AMQP and RabbitMQ

Joern Barthel introduces the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), and illustrates it's useage with Ruby-based client and an EDA-style app. The open source RabbitMQ server is used on the backend (which is written in Erlang).

Joern Barthel
on Sep 13, 2009

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