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Overcoming RESTlessness

New API protocols like GraphQL, gRPC, and Apache Kafka have risen in popularity as alternatives to REST-inspired HTTP APIs. Instead of seeking to replace REST, the software engineering industry should seek to evolve by building on the maturity of the REST ecosystem while exploiting the technological strengths of the new protocols.

Matt McLarty
on Feb 01, 2019
Culture & Methods

Evidence-Based Management Guide - Updated

The Evidence-Based Management Guide provides a framework for organizations to measure, manage, and increase the value they derive from their product delivery. The updated version includes a new key value area called Unrealized Value and provides example measures that organizations can use to find their own measures that fit their context.

Ben Linders Patricia Kong Kurt Bittner
on Jan 23, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Future Ethics

In the book Future Ethics, Cennydd Bowles explores the role ethics play in the tech industry and in the work of product managers, designers, and engineers. The book provides guidance on how to think and act ethically when designing products.

Ben Linders Cennydd Bowles
on Jan 18, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Digital Transformation at Scale

The book Digital Transformation at Scale by Andrew Greenway, Ben Terrett, Mike Bracken and Tom Loosemore, explores what governmental and other large organizations can do to make a digital transformation happen. It is based on the authors’ experience designing and helping to deliver the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS).

Andrew Greenway Ben Linders
on Dec 27, 2018
Culture & Methods

Author Q&A on the Book Project to Product by Mik Kersten

Mik Kersten has published a book, Project to Product, in which he describes a framework for delivering products in the age of software. Drawing on research and experience with many organisations across a wide range of industries, he presents the Flow Framework™ as a way for organisations to adapt their product delivery to the speed of the market.

Shane Hastie Mik Kersten
on Dec 16, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Driving Digital Strategy

The book Driving Digital Strategy by Sunil Gupta provides guidelines and advice for executing fundamental digital transformations in companies, based on lessons from digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies. To be successful you have to fundamentally change the core of your business and ensure that your digital strategy touches all aspects of your organization, argued Gupta.

Ben Linders Sunil Gupta
on Dec 05, 2018
Architecture & Design

Give REST a Rest with RSocket

Representational State Transfer (REST) has become the de facto standard for communicating between microservices. The author argues that is not a good thing. We need a modern material to replace HTTP for creating modern services. Open source RSocket is designed for services. It is a connection-oriented, message-driven protocol with built-in flow control at the application level.

Robert Roeser
on Oct 15, 2018
Culture & Methods

Author Q&A Continuous Digital and Project Myopia

Allan Kelly has recently released two complimentary books which address ways of working in modern digital businesses. “Continuous Digital” addresses the way organisations need to structure themselves when “every business is a digital business”. “Project Myopia” explores more of the underlying theory of #NoProjects and explains why the continuous culture is so important.

Allan Kelly Shane Hastie
on Sep 25, 2018
DevOps

DevOps for the Modern Enterprise Book Review and Q&A with Mirco Hering

InfoQ reviewed Mirco Hering's "DevOps for the Modern Enterprise" book and reached out to the author for more insights on his experience, learnings and obstacles with transformations at large scale.

Mirco Hering Manuel Pais
on Sep 23, 2018
Architecture & Design

How the TOGAF Standard Serves Enterprise Architecture

Any architect working with large enterprise systems has probably looked for guidance on how to manage the complexity and communicate with various stakeholders. This introductory overview of the TOGAF standard explains the structure of the framework, as well as discusses the benefits of using enterprise architecture to manage complex systems.

Will Stevens
on Sep 11, 2018
.NET

The Argument for WCF Hosting in .NET Core

Should WCF Hosting be Supported in .NET Core? To a lot of people this seems like a strange question; the answer is obviously... yes? no? Well actually it is quite contentious with people on both sides of the issue fiercely arguing for their position. We’ll try to unpack the debate and explain the arguments on both sides.

Jonathan Allen
on Aug 22, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Testing in the Digital Age

The Book Testing in the Digital Age by Tom van de Ven, Rik Marselis, and Humayun Shaukat, explains the impact that developments like robotics, artificial intelligence, internet of things, and big data are having in testing. It explores the challenges and possibilities that the digital age brings us when it comes to testing software systems.

Tom van de Ven Ben Linders
on Jul 19, 2018