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  • Windows and Line of Business Applications: No Good Options

    At Build 2013 Microsoft unveiled a number of new features that make the WinRT platform more interesting for developers working on LOB applications, but without a deployment story WinRT simply isn’t viable. Meanwhile WPF, like Silverlight and WinForms, has entered its twilight phase.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Jul 04, 2013

  • Apache MetaModel – Providing Uniform Data Access Across Various Data Stores

    MetaModel - an Apache Incubator project – is a Java library used to browse, query and update various types of data stores including traditional SQL databases, unusual stores such as CSV or Excel, or the more modern NoSQL stores in a uniform and programmatic way.

    Kasper Sørensen
    on Jul 03, 2013

  • A Test Strategy for Enterprise Integration Points

    This article introduces a commonly applicable testing strategy for integration points, which improves the coverage, speed, reliability and reproducibility of testing, and thus could be used as a reference for implementing and testing integration-heavy applications.

    Jeff Xiong David Yin Pengfei Cui
    on Jul 01, 2013

  • Interview with Sandi Metz on Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

    On occasion of the second edition of her book “Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer”, InfoQ talked with Sandi about how her book was received, learning from open source code, making sensible use of code analysis tools and other topics.

    Manuel Pais
    on Jun 28, 2013

  • Adding Flexibility to your REST Implementation with Yoga

    In cases when one desires to provide fine-grained control over the structure of the document responses based on the needs of their clients, Yoga is an open source alternative that integrates with existing REST applications. Yoga provides clients the ability to use selectors, which can be used as projection, selection and join relational operators.

    Corby Page
    on Jun 27, 2013

  • Cassandra Mythology

    In this article, author Jonathan Ellis addresses the concerns of using Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, in terms of architecture, deployment and configuration, performance, query language (CQL), and database maturity.

    Jonathan Ellis
    on Jun 26, 2013

  • Virtual Panel: Performance Tuning Face-Off

    In the world of application delivery, performance tuning still seems to elude the mainstream. InfoQ spoke to five luminaries of the performance monitoring space about why and what can be done. The result was quite an active debate. Members of the virtual panel: • Ben Evans • Charlie Hunt • Kirk Pepperdine • Martin Thompson ��� Monica Beckwith

    Victor Grazi
    on Jun 25, 2013

  • Interview and Book Review: Effective JavaScript

    In his recent book Effective JavaScript, author David Herman takes an in-depth look at the JavaScript programming language and how to use it effectively to write more portable, robust and maintainable applications and libraries. InfoQ spoke with David about new trends in JavaScript and writing effective JavaScript libraries.

    Nilanjan Raychaudhuri
    on Jun 21, 2013

  • Java Garbage Collection Distilled

    CMS, G1, Young Gen, New Gen, Old Gen, Eden, and the hundreds of JVM start-up flags... does this all baffle you when trying to tune the garbage collector to get the required throughput and latency from your Java application? Don’t worry, you are not alone. This article will attempt to explain the tradeoffs when choosing and tuning garbage collection algorithms for a particular workload.

    Martin Thompson
    on Jun 17, 2013

  • Interview: Today's Java with Cay Horstmann

    Cay S. Horstmann, author of Core Java Volumes 1 & 2, has written about Java since the beginning. Topics include the forthcoming Java 8, Java's vendor support, and the language's role in modern software development.

    Jeff Martin
    on Jun 13, 2013

  • Graph Databases - Book Review and Interview

    "Graph Databases" book covers the Graph based NoSQL database technology and different options available for storing "Connected Data" in the real world applications. InfoQ spoke with co-authors Ian Robinson and Jim Webber about the book, role of Graph Databases in the NoSQL database space, and what’s coming up in the Graph Databases.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Jun 07, 2013

  • Creating Resilient Software with Akka

    Akka Tech Lead Dr. Roland Kuhn offers a behind the scenes look at Akka, showing what the driving forces behind the development of its guiding principles are.

    Roland Kuhn
    on Jun 06, 2013
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