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Mobile Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

Xamarin is becoming a popular tool for mobile app development. There are a number of very good reasons for this as well as a few drawbacks that make it unsuitable for certain kinds of apps. This article will dwell upon them as well as weigh up the pros and cons of cross-platform versus native development.

Adriana Blum
on Dec 13, 2017
Architecture & Design

What Should Software Engineers Know about GDPR?

EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is moving out of the transition period next summer to become enforceable GDPR strongly emphasizes risk-based thinking; you take every step to mitigate privacy risks until the risks become something you can tolerate. As a software developer, this will affect you. This is what you need to know.

Arto Santala
on Dec 10, 2017
Development

Introducing Obevo: Get Your Database SDLC under Control

In this article, we will describe how Obevo, Goldman Sachs' recently open-sourced DB Deployment utility, helped many of our enterprise applications get their databases under SDLC control.

Shant Stepanian
on Dec 01, 2017
Development

InfoQ Call for Articles

InfoQ provides software engineers with the opportunity to share experiences gained using innovator and early adopter stage techniques and technologies with the wider industry. We are always on the lookout for quality articles and we encourage practitioners and domain experts to submit feature-length (2,000 to 3,000 word) papers that are timely, educational and practical.

InfoQ.com
on Dec 01, 2017
Mobile

Cryptocurrency and Online Multiplayer Games

The era of cryptocurrency opens new possibilities for game publishers and developers. However, it is not yet a fully-developed market and there are many things that should be taken into account before entering it. This article reviews the main pros and cons of entering this new and highly volatile field.

Anton Telitsyn
on Nov 30, 2017
DevOps

Uwe Friedrichsen on Functional Service Design and Observability

At the microXchg 2017 conference, Uwe Friedrichsen discussed the core concepts of “Resilient Functional Service Design” and how to create observable systems. Friedrichsen believes that microservice developers must: learn about fault tolerant design patterns and caching; understand Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and modularity; and aim to design for replaceability of components rather than reuse.

Daniel Bryant
on Nov 27, 2017
Development

Understanding Monads. A Guide for the Perplexed

With the current explosion of functional programming, the "monad" functional structure is once again striking fear into the hearts of newcomers. In this article, Introduction to Functional Programming course instructor Dr. Barry Burd clarifies this slippery critter.

Barry Burd
on Nov 25, 2017
DevOps

Charity Majors on Observability and Understanding the Operational Ramifications of a System

InfoQ recently sat down with Charity Majors, CEO of honeycomb.io and co-author of “Database Reliability Engineering” (with Laine Campbell), and discussed the topics of observability and monitoring.

Daniel Bryant
on Nov 22, 2017
Mobile

Challenges in HoloLens Application Development

This article discusses the lessons we learned developing new UWP apps and updating existing UWP applications to make them work on the HoloLens. We present UWP application design considerations to be taken into account early in the development lifecycle to support the HoloLens device family. Finally, we provide plausible solutions and suggestions to make the upgrade process less complex.

Vinothkumar Arputharaj
on Nov 20, 2017
Architecture & Design

FPGAs Supercharge Computational Performance

Originally used in the development of new hardware, new, cloud-based FPGAs are making the technology more accessible. The dramatic improvements in speed and lower costs over traditional CPUs means more companies can start benefiting from the technology. FPGAs are fundamentally concurrent, which makes them an ideal tool for data-intensive, parallel processing problems.

Rob Taylor
on Nov 17, 2017
Culture & Methods

How AI Will Revolutionize These Five Job Roles by 2022

AI is altering major job roles in the tech industry. From developers to managers to CIOs, established industry positions are being disrupted already. In five years many will be unrecognizable. What changes are coming? This article examines five key roles in tech and show how AI will remake them in the next five years.

Eugene Rudenko
on Nov 16, 2017
DevOps

Observability and Avoiding Alert Overload from Microservices at the Financial Times

At QCon London, Sarah Wells presented "Avoiding Alerts Overload from Microservices", and cautioned that developers and operators must fundamentally change the way they think about monitoring when building a distributed microservice-based system.

Daniel Bryant
on Nov 15, 2017

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