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Building Reactive Systems Using Akka’s Actor Model and Domain-Driven Design

With the explosion of mobile and data-driven applications, users are demanding real-time access to everything everywhere. System resilience and responsiveness are essential business requirements. Businesses increasingly need to trade up to more flexible, "reactive" systems. To support reactive development, actor models with domain-driven design can fulfill modern resiliency requirements.

Markus Eisele Hugh McKee
on Oct 25, 2017
Cloud

Defining Cloud Native: A Panel Discussion

What is "cloud-native", why should you care, and how can your team adopt this way of delivering software? InfoQ gathered three industry experts to debate the topic.

Richard Seroter
on Oct 20, 2017
Culture & Methods

Retiring Mainframe Programmers: Should I Care?

We stay up on new languages, frameworks, and architectures yet ignore the value of mainframe applications. Mainframes manage 70% of the world’s transactions yet its programmer workforce is rapidly retiring baby boomers. And millennials have no interest in mainframe careers. This article describes that state of mainframe applications, bad talks management, and then provides detailed solutions.

Don Denoncourt
on Oct 11, 2017
Java

The Java Evolution of Eclipse Collections

With each successive version of Java, frameworks must adapt and transform in order to stay current. This article aims to describe some of the new Java 8 features in Eclipse Collections, a high performance collections framework for Java, and looks ahead at some of the new things we’ve done to prepare for Java 9. This article will walk through these new features and changes.

Kristen O'Leary
on Oct 09, 2017
Understanding Cloud Native Infrastructure: Interview with Justin Garrison and Kris Nova

"Cloud Native Infrastructure: Patterns for Scalable Infrastructure and Applications in a Dynamic Environment" from O’Reilly Media is a collection of guidance about building and managing modern infrastructure. InfoQ reached out to the authors to learn more about what they’re proposing, and how you can act upon it.

Richard Seroter
on Oct 08, 2017
.NET

Detecting and Analyzing Redundant Code

As software development projects grow in scope, it is very easy for them to add redundant layers of code. By analyzing several large open source projects on GitHub, the author presents his findings as to the amount of redundant code each project has and shares some recommendations as to how all projects can improve their own code management.

Zebedee Mason
on Oct 02, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on "The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide"

The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide answers questions that new and experienced developers often have in advancing their careers. Topics covered vary from learning technical skills, getting a job, and dealing with managers, to doing side projects or starting your own company.

Ben Linders
on Oct 01, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "Humans vs Computers"

Author Gojko Adzic has released a book, Humans vs Computers, in which he tells stories about the impact of inflexible automation, edge cases and software bugs on the lives of real people. He explains the common mistakes built into the systems and provides advice on how to prevent these mistakes from being built into our systems in the first place.

Shane Hastie
on Sep 20, 2017
Culture & Methods

Is TDD a Form of OCD?

Developers are increasingly testing their own and each other's code. "Evaluation anxiety" is common psychological condition that is directly impacted by self-testing and team-testing. Are practices like TDD a defense mechanism to protect coders from criticism? And do emerging methods like Behavior Driven Development represents a more emotionally healthy approach to team evaluation?

Gilad David Maayan
on Sep 15, 2017
Web Development

3 Easy Solutions to Optimize Images on the Fly

When pages are slow to load, images are frequently the culprit. The megabyte size of web pages is steadily growing, and images are by far the largest component. In this article, Gilad David Maayan shows how image optimization can be achieved easily and automatically with a few lines of code, using three different cloud services, dramatically improve page load times and bandwidth usage.

Gilad David Maayan
on Sep 05, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Working with Coders

The book Working with Coders is a practical guide to managing teams of software developers aimed at a non-technical audience. In the book, Patrick Gleeson explores how the software development process works and what managers can do to support it effectively and build solid working relationships with coders.

Ben Linders
on Sep 04, 2017
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Video Stream Analytics Using OpenCV, Kafka and Spark Technologies

What is the role of video streaming data analytics in data science space. Learn how to implement a motion detection use case using a sample application based on OpenCV, Kafka and Spark Technologies.

Amit Baghel
on Sep 02, 2017

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