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Java 9's New HTTP/2 and REPL

Java 9 will not just be about modularity; it is targeting a large number of additional pieces of functionality. In this article Ben Evans dives into HTTP/2 support and the JShell REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) that brings shell-based interactive Java development, two new JEPs that may well have the biggest impact on developers' working lives during the lifetime of Java 9.

Ben Evans
on Jul 21, 2015
Increasing your Agility: An interview with Dave Thomas

At the GOTO Amsterdam 2015 conference Dave Thomas gave a keynote presentation titled "agile is dead". While the "Agile" industry is busy debasing the meaning of the word, the underlying values are still strong. Dave Thomas suggests to stop using the word agile and switch to agility: repeatedly taking small steps towards where you want to be and evaluate what happened.

Ben Linders
on Jul 21, 2015
The Practice and Future of Release Engineering

This article features highlights from interviews with release engineers on the state of the practice and challenges in release engineering space. The interview questions cover topics like release engineering metrics, continuous delivery's benefits and limitations.

Tamara Marshall-Keim Christian Bird Foutse Khomh Bram Adams Kim Moir Stephany Bellomo
on Jul 19, 2015
Architecture & Design

UX - Are you Doing it Yet?

An estimated 70% of technology projects fail due to a lack of user adoption. Shouldn’t organizations understand their users and product as much as possible in order to prevent this from happening? Ted McCarthy explains how successful organizations emphasize and invest in UX, integrating it into their teams alongside product and engineering, and offers some useful tips along the way.

Ted McCarthy
on Jul 16, 2015
Our Responsibility as Software Developers

As software developers, we have the ability to change the world for the better, or the worst. With this power comes the question, “What is our duty to our customers, our society, and ourselves?”. Nils Löwe tries to answer this with his Manifesto for Responsible Software Development.

Nils Löwe
on Jul 15, 2015
Integrating Raft into JGroups

JGroups has many features that could be useful to a robust Raft consensus based implementation. In this article, Ugo Landini takes us through a project to implement a Raft consensus based algorithm on top of JGroups, which could be really a nice addition in many different use cases.

Ugo Landini
on Jul 14, 2015
Infrastructure as a Service and Cloud Technologies

In this article, authors examine the enterprise cloud market and technologies and provide guidance for choosing the right cloud solution. They also discuss the cloud computing best practices such as elastic architecture, design for failure, high availability, performance, security, and monitoring.

Josune Hernantes Gorka Gallardo Nicolas Serrano
on Jul 12, 2015
The World is One Family - Why That Matters for Software Corporations and Professionals

Rev. C. L. Gulati of Sant Nirankari Mission presented the opening keynote on the conference theme – Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – The World is one family, at the Regional Scrum Gathering South Asia 2015. Kamlesh Ravlani, one of the volunteer event organizers, spoke with him about this philosophy, its implications for global organizations and why the software community should care about it.

Kamlesh Ravlani
on Jul 12, 2015
Programming with Semantic Profiles: In the Land of Magic Strings, the Profile-Aware is King

As this article’s author, Mark Foster, puts it, "Absent profiles, the API space will be relegated to blindly passing around 'magic strings, fooling ourselves into thinking we are passing reliable semantic information." Here, Foster — one of the editors of the ALPS specification — explains what semantic profiles are and how they can transform the way Web APIs are desgined and implemented.

Mark Foster
on Jul 11, 2015
Practices for DevOps and Continuous Delivery

DevOps is an attempt to break the barrier between development and operations teams, who are both required for the successful delivery of software says Danilo Sato. His book Devops in Practice: Reliable and automated software delivery provides a hands-on approach for implementing continuous delivery and DevOps practices.

Ben Linders
on Jul 10, 2015
Business, Design, and Engineering: Developing Collaboration-Culture

The collaboration of a company and its multidisciplinary units has never been more crucial than now. Everything we make today depends upon our ability to stay current, move nimbly, innovate, engage and delight. Those things are too difficult to achieve without cross-team collaboration.

Jaimee Newberry
on Jul 09, 2015
Article Series: Mobile-first in Africa

This series focuses on several African projects that are leveraging existing mobile technology to have a significant impact on people's lives, from education to banking, from health to conflict outburst handling, and more. Articles in this series not only cover the available technological ground of those projects but also try and explain their impact on African society.

Sergio De Simone
on Jul 08, 2015

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