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InfoQ Talks to Azul Systems Gil Tene Part 2

In this part 2 of InfoQ's conversation with Gil Tene of Azul Systems, Gil discusses their latest engineering project aimed at bring better low-level memory layout control to Java, and the requirement modern high-performance Java applications have for this solution.

Ben Evans
on Jan 17, 2015
Using the Kanban Canvas for Driving Change

The need for learning organizations is greater than ever. People need to be able to continuously solve new problems, they have to develop thinking and problem solving skills that would enable them to do this. In an interview with InfoQ Karl Scotland explains the kanban canvas and explores how it can be used to create shared insights and decide upon the approach to intervene in organizations.

Ben Linders
on Jan 07, 2015
InfoQ Talks to Azul Systems Gil Tene about Zing, Zulu, and New Releases

Gil Tene of Azul Systems talks about shipping their Java 8 compatible release, the need for certified builds and the problem with the current approach to Java taken by Docker.

Ben Evans
on Jan 06, 2015
Java 9 and Beyond. Oracle's Brian Goetz and John Rose Glimpse into the Future

Oracle's Brian Goetz (Java Language Architect) and John Rose (JVM Architect) take us on a deep-dive discussion about some of the technologies and features being discussed for Java 9 and beyond.

Ben Evans
on Jan 04, 2015
Q&A with John Sonmez on His Book on Soft Skills

The book “Soft Skills - The software developer's life manual” addresses interesting topics for professional software developers. The book aims to help developers to become better programmers, more valuable employees, and happier and healthier people. An interview with John Sonmez on managing careers, remote working, mentoring, getting more work done, negotiating salaries and positive thinking.

Ben Linders
on Jan 03, 2015
Innovation Machine

How do you start making products and solutions customers care about? How do you create new, disruptive, and viable businesses, for new markets, in a new way? Jonathan Irwin explores how you can develop and launch new businesses, using a platform with teams that will work in a new way, and are led, staffed, and measured differently.

Jonathan Irwin
on Dec 29, 2014
REST-y Reader

Rounding out our first Web APIs series Mike shares books he recommends for those who want to learn more about designing, implementing, and maintaining APIs for the Web.

Mike Amundsen
on Dec 24, 2014
Teaching Kids Java Programming

During the holiday season we think about our families, our children, and and their future. In this article, Yakov Fain give us some insight about what lead him to write his new book "Java Programming for Kids" (now available as a free download) and includes some sample chapters.

Yakov Fain
on Dec 22, 2014
Book Review and Interview: The Practice of Cloud System Administration

The new book, The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, looks at a wide range of considerations for cloud-scale systems. In this book review and interview with the authors, we look at how teams can apply proven best practices.

Richard Seroter
on Dec 18, 2014
Roy Fielding on Versioning, Hypermedia, and REST

Roy Fielding talks to Mike Amundsen about versioning on the Web, why hypermedia is a requirement in his REST style, the process of designing network software that can adapt over time, and the challenge of thinking at the scale of decades.

Mike Amundsen
on Dec 17, 2014
Java

Designing a Highly Available, Fault Tolerant, Hadoop Cluster with Data Isolation

As data grows exponentially, the modern Hadoop ecosystem provides not only a reliable distributed aggregation system that delivers data parallelism, but also analytics for great data insights. In this article Monica Beckwith, starting from core Hadoop components, investigates the design of a highly available, fault tolerant Hadoop cluster, adding security and data-level isolation.

Monica Beckwith
on Dec 16, 2014
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2014

This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon San Francisco 2014 as blogged and tweeted by QCon's 1,200 attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 10 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.

Abel Avram
on Dec 08, 2014

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