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The Indian Banking Community Cloud

In this article, authors discuss the Indian Banking Community Cloud (IBCC) that provides cloud-based services exclusively to Indian banks to address the financial sector's growing demand for secure cloud-based services.

Lalit Sangavarapu G.R. Gangadharan Shakti Mishra Abraham Williams
on Mar 28, 2015
Q&A with Gene Kim on the State of DevOps Survey

The 4th edition of the State of DevOps survey is out. InfoQ talked to the survey's co-author Gene Kim to understand what are the goals for this edition, how the data is analysed and what have we learned so far from past surveys.

Manuel Pais
on Mar 26, 2015
Beyond Blacklisting: Cyberdefense in the Era of Advanced Persistent Threats

In this article, authors discuss the security vulnerabilities in software applications and how whitelisting approach has advantages over blacklisting. They also talk about how to implement the whitelisting security policies and cost involved with it.

Kyle Salous Aaron Beuhring
on Mar 17, 2015
How to Start With Security

Computer security, or the lack thereof, has made many headlines recently. In this article we'll look at how bad things are and what you, as a software developer, can do about it. It will help get you started or hopefully give you some new ideas if you're already doing some security work.

Rémon (Ray) Sinnema
on Mar 14, 2015
Q&A on Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly

The book "Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly" by Bertrand Meyer provides a review of agile principles, techniques and tools. It explores the agile methods Extreme Programming, Lean Software, Scrum and Crystal and provides suggestions on what to use or not to use from them, based on software engineering principles and research and personal experience of the book author.

Ben Linders
on Mar 13, 2015
Cloud Security Auditing: Challenges and Emerging Approaches

Security audits are an important part of IT security programs. In this article, authors highlight the challenges in cloud computing business models, based on interviews with cloud security auditors. They talk about the challenges in the areas of transparency, encryption and colocation and domain-tailored audits as ideal solution in the new model.

Syed Rizvi William Aiken John Kissell Jungwoo Ryoo
on Mar 08, 2015
Go for the Money! JSR 354 Adds First Class Money and Currency Support to Java

First class money and currency support in Java are almost here. In this article Credit Suisse's Anatole Tresch JSR 354 spec lead, discusses the shortcomings of the legacy currency and money support, motivation for the new APIs, and lots of examples.

Anatole Tresch
on Mar 03, 2015
Employing Enterprise Architecture for Applications Assurance

In this article, authors discuss how enterprise, software, and security architects can improve software assurance by using the enterprise architecture to promulgate the software security controls. They also talk about other security model components like threat modeling, attack trees, secure design patterns, and misuse cases.

Walter Houser
on Feb 26, 2015
Visual Portfolio Management: Collaboratively Aligning Your Company

To exploit agile advantages like speed, flexibility, and fast feedback, companies need to work on the right things. The three-horizons model explains how companies need to work to ensure sustainable growth. Visual portfolio management can integrate the different types of work into a coherent system.

Markus Andrezak
on Feb 23, 2015
Service-Oriented Architecture and Legacy Systems

In this article, authors provide an overview of current SOA technologies and how to evolve in legacy environments. They also discuss the topics of SOAP vs. REST web services, Enterprise Application Integration and incremental transition to SOA in legacy environments.

Josune Hernantes Gorka Gallardo Nicolas Serrano
on Feb 20, 2015
Metadata Driven Design - An Agile Bridge Between Design and Development

Over the years Agile has had a number of high profile successes. However, some have suggested that project efficiency and team creativity are impossible to achieve simultaneously. In this article Aaron Kendall of Barnes & Noble discusses a method they have been using that attempts to address these potential conflicts and combines the design of the overall architecture and implementation.

Aaron Kendall
on Feb 19, 2015
Highly Distributed Computations Without Synchronization

Synchronization of data across systems is expensive and impractical when running systems at scale. Traditional approaches for performing computations or information dissemination are not viable. In this article Basho Sr. Software Engineer Chris Meiklejohn explores the basic building blocks for crafting deterministic applications that guarantee convergence of data without synchronization.

Christopher Meiklejohn
on Feb 17, 2015

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