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Large Scaled-Scrum Development Does Work!
Agile Scrum development as such is nothing new and extraordinary. But when putting up to 100 professionals from all related development and product areas in the same boat to develop a product … then it becomes a challenge. This article explores how the Ericsson ICT Development Center Eurolab in Aachen has tackled this with the help of Kaizen and other adjustments to Agile practices.
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Book Review: The Go Programming Language
The Go Programming Language book, by Donovan and Kernighan, presents the key points of Go in an easy-to-digest book, along with useful tips and techniques. From a quick introduction to the syntax through concurrent programs with mutexes and goroutines, the book takes the reader on a beautiful voyage through Go’s fundamentals. Read on for InfoQ’s review.
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Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks
User interfaces have used the MVC pattern for decades, yet it hasn't kept pace with the demands of modern applications. To meet new demands and to speed up development, Jean-Jacques Dubray introduces a new pattern: State-Action-Model (SAM). SAM is a reactive, functional pattern that strives to simplify the interaction between the data model and the view.
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A Reference Architecture for the Internet of Things
This is the first article of a two article series in which we try to work from the abstract level of IoT reference architectures towards the concrete architecture and implementation for selected use cases. This first article will cover the definition of a more concrete and comprehensible architecture whereas the second part will then apply this architecture to actual use cases.
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Pack Up the Wagon, We're Going Offline
Enterprise customers often have specific requirements and restrictions. Sometimes, an internet connection isn't always available, so traditional package management techniques don't work. Nir Cohen describes Wagon, which takes Python wheels, packages them together, adds metadata, and allows for offline extraction and installation.
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Clojure Recipes Review and Q&A
Addison Wesley’s Clojure Recipes is a new book that aims to help developers to get deeper into Clojure, moving from a generic understanding of the language features and syntax to setting up more complex projects that integrate external libraries. The book contains a collection of "weekend" projects targeting web client and server apps, implementing DSLs, using Datomic, Cascalog, Hadoop, etc.
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From Monolith to Multilith at ticketea
ticketea is a large online ticket selling platform in Spain. This article describes their growing pains and how DevOps and an API-based distributed architecture allowed them to cope with growth, both from a technical (from monolith to multilith) and people (awareness and knowledge sharing) perspective.
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Jawbone's Head of Data Science and Analytics on the Future of Wearables and Analytics Insights
Brian Wilt, Head of Data Science and Analytics at Jawbone, recently gave a presentation at QCon SF about Machine Learning applications at Jawbone. Here we ask more about current and future directions of research and development around sleep research, getting actionable insights, getting wearables to play a significant role in healthcare, and cool projects currently in their early stages at Jawbone
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Thinking Outside-In: How APIs Fulfill the Original Promise of Service-Oriented Architecture
The article explores how and why APIs are a lightweight and agile way of building reusable business systems. While some SOA adopters delivered these goals many efforts faced complexity and failed. The key difference with APIs is in the shift from hierarchical services to distributed resources, simplicity, statelessness and a focus on making it practical for the business to understand and implement
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Getting Ready for IoT’s Big Data Challenges with Couchbase Mobile
Our physical world is about to become digitally enabled and according to various predictions for example by Gartner or Cisco, there will be many billions of IoT devices going online and constantly gathering data in the coming years. We got in touch with Wayne Carter and Ali LeClerc of Couchbase to discuss how Couchbase Mobile is also ready for the upcoming era of Internet of Things.
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Programming with Modularity and Project Jigsaw. A Tutorial Using the Latest Early Access Build
Project Jigsaw is the hallmark feature of Java 9, the next major version release of Java, and is destined to bring modular programming into the Java mainstream. After years of negotiating and myriad JSRs and JEPs, Jigsaw is starting to take its final form. This tutorial considers all aspects of programming and migration to Project Jigsaw.
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Machine Learning with Spark: Book Review and Interview
Machine learning is about making data-driven decisions or predictions based on existing data. Apache Spark and its machine learning library MLlib offer several algorithms useful for developing scalable machine learning applications. InfoQ spoke with Nick Pentreath, author of the book Machine Learning with Spark, about data science and machine learning topics.