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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Mike Barlow on Real-Time Big Data Analytics

    "Real-Time Big Data Analytics: Emerging Architecture" white paper authored by Mike Barlow covers big data analytics topic and how real-time big data analytics (RTBDA) are different from traditional analytics. InfoQ spoke with Mike about the current state of real-time big data analytics and the emerging trends in the Big Data space like Decision Science.

  • Run .NET and Node.js code in-process with Edge.js

    Tomasz Janczuk has created Edge.js, which allows users to combine the power of .NET with Node.js. Curious about how to add non-blocking communication to your .NET project? Looking for a way to move computationally intensive code out of your Node thread? Janczuk's article provides a great starting point on how Edge works and the benefits it can bring to your next application.

  • Project Lambda from the Inside. An Interview with Brian Goetz

    JSR-335: Project Lambda has been called the "defining" project in Java 8. InfoQ spoke to Oracle's Brian Goetz, JSR 335 spec lead about his observations on Project Lambda from the inside.

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