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Q&A on The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes

Darius Blasband has written a book which challenges the conventional wisdom of software engineering: he protests against the adoption of recipes and standards-based approaches and rails against the status-quo. He calls himself a codeaholic who advocates for careful consideration of the specific context and the use of domain specific languages wherever possible.

Shane Hastie
on Apr 20, 2017
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2017

This year was the 11th for QCon London; it was also our largest London event to date. Including our 140 speakers we had 1435 team leads, architects, and project managers attending 112 technical sessions across 18 concurrent editorial tracks and 16 in-depth workshops.

Abel Avram
on Apr 18, 2017
Java

Want to Know What’s in a GC Pause? Go Look at the GC Log!

Sometimes a superficial analysis of our application performance can incorrectly have the Garbage Collector point to itself. A proper GC log analysis can lead us past the “blame the collector” game. When this happens, we can make amazing discoveries that improve the performance and stability of our applications.

Kirk Pepperdine
on Apr 17, 2017
.NET

Patterns and Practices in C# 7

C# 7 is a major update with a lot of interesting new capabilities. And while there are plenty of articles on what you can do with it, there’s not quite as many on what you should do with it. Using the principles found in the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, we’re going to take a first pass at laying down strategies for getting the most from these new features.

Jonathan Allen
on Apr 13, 2017
Mobile

How to Effectively Collect User Feedback in Mobile Application

This article analyzes a variety of forms of collecting feedback in mobile applications from a number of perspectives, including user experience, development, operations,and cost. It also analyzes in which scenario each form of feedback is more applicable, with the purpose of helping mobile application developers or product managers use the right feedback mechanism and improve their products.

Jianing Zheng
on Apr 11, 2017
Culture & Methods

How to Sell Refactoring? The Case of Nordea Bank AB

Refactoring is often not a technical challenge. Teams can accurately diagnose inefficient code design. If they have sufficient time and budget at their disposal, they would probably get things done. In this article, we focus on the strategic code refactoring. This distinction was introduced by the BNS IT consultants as part of the method called Natural Course of Refactoring.

Łukasz Korczyński Michał Bartyzel
on Apr 09, 2017
Web Development

More Than React, Part 2: How Binding.scala Makes Reusability Easy

In Part 2 of "More Than React", Yang Bo goes into what's required to reuse components in vanilla JavaScript, ReactJS, and Binding.scala. Through examples, Yang shows how Binding.scala makes creating and reusing components easy with minimal code, reducing complexity and boilerplate.

Yang Bo
on Apr 08, 2017
DevOps

Examining the Internals of a Serverless Platform: Moving towards a ‘Zero-Friction’ PaaS

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) architectures simplify how applications are deployed for developers, and serverless architecture or Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is the next step in that direction. This article explores how serverless platforms are built, operated and leveraged for rapid application delivery. A conclusion of this work is that the serverless space is ripe for innovation.

Andrew Michaelis Sangram Ganguly Diptanu Gon Choudhury Ramakrishna Nemani
on Apr 07, 2017
Culture & Methods

2017 State of Testing Report

The State of Testing 2017 report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. This is fourth time that this survey has been done. InfoQ held an interview with the organizers of the State of Testing survey.

Ben Linders
on Apr 07, 2017
Culture & Methods

Enhance Your Testing Skills with Mindset Tools

Quite a lot of testers often miss out on the mindset necessary for the testing and delivery of quality products. Sometimes it seems that quality consciousness is missing. This article is about how I discovered a way to grow my test mindset, and how my discovery has been useful in enhancing my testing skills.

Vivien Ibironke Ibiyemi
on Apr 05, 2017
Web Development

Seven Operators to Get Started with RxJS

If you're just getting started with Reactive JavaScript and RxJS, the list of available operators can be overwhelming. If you're just getting started, which ones do you actually need? In this article, Vinvent Tunru introduces seven operators along with examples that will help you get a feel for when each of these operators could come in handy.

Vincent Tunru
on Apr 01, 2017
.NET

A Comprehensive Look at F# 4.1

Semantic versioning can be misleading. While F# 4.1 is backwards compatible with F# 4.0, it is by no means a minor release. With both Microsoft and the larger community contributing, several more features were introduced since the F# 4.1 preview in the areas of performance, interoperability, and convenience.

Jonathan Allen
on Mar 30, 2017

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