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Interview with Jan de Baere about the Rise and Fall of an Agile Company

What happens when a director of a consulting company decides to drastically change the culture? At the Agile Tour Brussels conference Jan de Baere presented the why and how of a company that adopted agile, the journey that they went through, and how it came to a sudden end. InfoQ interviewed him about the agile change approach, culture and trust, and the lessons learned from an agile journey.

Ben Linders
on Feb 03, 2014
ActiveJPA – Active Record Pattern for JPA

ActiveJPA is a Java implementation of Martin Fowler’s Active Record pattern that wraps around JPA and provides useful abstractions to simplify data access. With ActiveJPA, models themselves act as a DAO and interact with the database without requiring additional code for the DAL. In this article the primary committer discusses ActiveJPA and provides plenty of usage examples.

Ganesh Subramanian
on Jan 22, 2014
Interview with Ole Jepsen on Leadership in Agile

Good leaders create an environment where self-organizing teams can thrive and create great products and services to delight their customers: that is what Ole Jepsen explains in this interview. At the XP Days Benelux conference he talked about truly leading people and the subtle but important differences between taking and giving control.

Ben Linders
on Jan 20, 2014
Non-functional Requirements in Architectural Decision Making

In this article, authors present an empirical study based on a survey about the software architecture practices for managing non-functional requirements (NFRs) and decision making in software development process. They also discuss about how these requirements are elicited, documented, and validated at different organizations.

Jordi Cabot Claudia Ayala Xavier Franch David Ameller
on Jan 17, 2014
Minding the API Hierarchy of Needs with RAML and APIkit

Reza Shafii explains how to satisfy two fundamental needs of API design and implementation, as defined by the API hierarchy of needs, with RAML, API Designer and APIkit.

Reza Shafii
on Jan 15, 2014
Intelligent Evolution: Making Change Work

Some 80% of all improvement and change programmes fail: they did not achieve the expected results, the investment in the change programme was greater than the value achieved, “improvements” were seen as mostly bureaucratic, or changes were abandoned soon after the implementation. Intelligent Evolution ensures long-term business success rather than short-term satisfaction of a standard or theory.

Peter Leeson
on Jan 13, 2014
Preparing for Your First MongoDB Deployment: Backup and Security

This article we focuses on the database backup tools and security policies when deploying MongoDB NoSQL databases. Topics like cloud backups with MongoDB Management Service (MMS), authentication, and authorization are covered.

Mat Keep
on Jan 05, 2014
Design Patterns: Magic or Myth?

In this article, author discusses the effectiveness of the usage of design patterns in software development. The analysis is based on surveys and mapping studies conducted to indicate which patterns were considered useful under what circumstances.

David Budgen
on Jan 04, 2014
Pragmatic Techniques for Maintaining a Legacy Application

Maintaining a legacy application can make you feel like mice in a maze. In this article Ping Chen shares her experiences on how to pragmatically maintain a large legacy application. "Pragmatic” is the operative word; since a legacy application can have lots of technical debt, one has to be strategic in choosing the right battles.

Chen Ping
on Jan 02, 2014
Building a Real-time, Personalized Recommendation System with Kiji

Jon Natkins explains in this article how to create a personalized recommendation system fed with large amounts of real-time data using Kiji, which leverages HBase, Avro, Map-Reduce and Scalding.

Jon Natkins
on Dec 26, 2013
Visualizing Java Garbage Collection

Garbage Collection, like Backgammon takes minutes to learn and a lifetime to master. In this article Master trainer/consultant Ben Evans summarizes his recent InfoQ presentation "Visualizing Garbage Collection" where he discusses Garbage Collection from the ground up.

Ben Evans
on Dec 25, 2013
Architecture and Agility: Married, Divorced, or Just Good Friends?

This article describes the relationship between architecture and process of software development and how architecture can responds to a set of needs, such as functional requirements, operational characteristics, and developer habitability. It also talks about the role of pragmatic architects when working with developers and stakeholders.

Frank Buschmann Kevlin Henney
on Dec 21, 2013

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