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Interview with Wesley Coelho on Challenges in DevOps

At the Agile 2016 Conference InfoQ spoke to Wesley Coelho, Senior Director of Business Development for Tasktop, about the communication challenges inherent in DevOps and how to overcome them; how DevOps and agile expose organisational silos and waterfall communications flows that need to become adaptive and automated.

Shane Hastie
on Jan 04, 2017
Culture & Methods

How Difficult Can It Be to Integrate Software Development Tools? The Hard Truth

Integrating tools used in software development and delivery is very hard. Getting endpoints to inter-operate is not a purely technical challenge, it’s more of a business problem. While there are a few choices in selecting the technical integration infrastructure (integration via APIs or at the database layer), the real challenges have more to do with friction caused by the dissimilarities.

Betty Zakheim
on Jan 02, 2017
Culture & Methods

People Re-engineering

People Re-engineering is a concept bundling whatever's needed to keep software people fit to meet the growing and pressing challenges caused by merciless market demands. A typical implementation of the concept includes efforts along five axes: Mentoring and Coaching, Leadership Enablement, Team Energizing, Executive Engagement and finally Monitoring to measure results and steer efforts.

Medhat Sabry
on Dec 28, 2016
Development

How Zalando Delivers APIs with Radical Agility

InfoQ interviewed Thomas Fraustein, architect at Zalando, about his team’s radical agility development organization that is optimized for an API-first approach. He explains what an API-first approach is, and provides tips on building good APIs for scalable microservice architectures where a large number of services are offered efficiently.

Jerome Louvel
on Dec 24, 2016
Java

Refactoring to Reactive - Anatomy of a JDBC migration

Reactive programming offers built-in solutions for some of the most difficult challenges in programming, including concurrency management and flow control. So you might ask - how do I get there; can I introduce it in phases? In this article we transform a legacy application to a reactive model using RxJava.

Nicolae Marasoiu
on Dec 22, 2016
DevOps

Anders Wallgren of Electric Cloud on Metrics for DevOps and the Importance of Culture

At Agile 2016, Anders Wallgren of Electric Cloud spoke about the importance of metrics for DevOps success, selecting the right things to measure and the importance of having a generative culture. He gave examples of how organizations have improved cycle times and quality outcomes by orders of magnitude and explored why they were able to achieve these results.

Shane Hastie
on Dec 21, 2016
Architecture & Design

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2016

The 10th annual QCon San Francisco was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1500 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors. Over 125 practitioner-speakers presented 92 full-length technical sessions and 32 in-depth tutorials, providing deep insights into real-world architectures and state of the art software development practices from a practitioner’s perspective.

Abel Avram
on Dec 14, 2016
Culture & Methods

Managing Cultural Differences in Your Distributed Team

This article focuses on how cultural differences influence collaboration in distributed teams; it shares some virtues and practices which are helpful in bridging the cultural differences between team members. It defines culture and multicultural environment in distributed teams. It looks at questions teams can ask themselves to find out the impact of cultural differences in their day-to-day work.

Savita Pahuja Hugo Messer
on Dec 10, 2016
Java

Book Review: Learn Apache JMeter by Example

JMeter is an indispensable tool for testing load and functionality of multi-tiered applications comprised of web front ends, JVM servers and a wealth of NoSQL and relational databases. This book is the manual that should have been included to help surmount the learning curve.

Victor Grazi
on Dec 06, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Practice of System and Network Administration (3rd Edition)

The book The Practice of System and Network Administration takes a holistic view on system administration: it provides a framework and strategies for solving problems regardless of the operating system, brand of computer, or type of environment. The third edition incorporates new developments like DevOps, infrastructure as code, continuous integration, operational excellence and assessments.

Ben Linders
on Nov 28, 2016
Culture & Methods

Ultimate Kanban: Scaling Agile without Frameworks at Ultimate Software

Ultimate Software settled on Kanban as its scaled methodology which went hand-in-hand with the company’s culture of autonomy. Teams define their own process and apply policies specific to their own context. Through the innovative use of flow practices and principles, Ultimate has been able to achieve many of the benefits of a Lean-Agile implementation without the use of a heavyweight framework.

Steve Reid Daniel S. Vacanti Prateek Singh
on Nov 27, 2016
Culture & Methods

Dennis Ehle on Visibility into the DevOps Value Chain

At the recent Agile 2016 conference, InfoQ spoke to Dennis Ehle about the evolution of DevOps and the importance of having visibility into how value is delivered over the DevOps pipeline.

Shane Hastie
on Nov 24, 2016

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