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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2013

This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon San Francisco 2013 as blogged and tweeted by attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 19 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team. The publishing schedule can be found on the QCon San Francisco web site.

Abel Avram
on Dec 10, 2013
Exposing CQRS Through a RESTful API

Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is an architectural pattern that segregates reads and writes of a system into two separate models. We propose and demonstrate an approach for building a RESTful API on top of CQRS systems. This approach joins HTTP semantics and resource-based style of REST APIs with distributed computing concerns such as eventual consistency and concurrency.

Ali Kheyrollahi
on Dec 09, 2013
Beyond Data Mining

In this article, author talks about the need for a change in the predictive modeling community’s focus and compares the four types of data mining: algorithm mining, landscape mining, decision mining, and discussion mining.

Tim Menzies
on Dec 06, 2013
Applying Lean Thinking to Software Development

Lean’s major concept is about reducing waste, meaning anything in your production cycle that is not adding value to the customer is considered waste and should therefore be removed from the process. Steven Peeters explains how you can apply Lean principles in an IT environment.

Steven Peeters
on Dec 05, 2013
To Execution profile or to Memory Profile? That is the question.

There are times when memory profiling will provide a clearer picture than execution profiling to find execution hot spots. In this article Kirk Pepperdine talks through some indicators for determining when to use which kind of profiler.

Kirk Pepperdine
on Dec 04, 2013
The Subject and Discipline of Business Architecture

This article defines the subject and discipline of Business Architecture. In contrast with other approaches, only business functionality and business information may be considered architectural entities that together form the subject of Business Architecture.The discipline of Business Architecture on the other hand is a description of the primary and secondary tasks of a Business Architect.

Michael Poulin
on Dec 02, 2013
Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot to Access Data in an Aerospike Cluster

Spring Boot allows you to build Spring based applications with little effort on your part. Aerospike is a distributed and replicated in-memory database that is ACID compliant. This article will take you through creating a simple RESTful web service with Spring Boot and Aerospike.

Peter Milne
on Nov 28, 2013
What’s Next in Software Analytics

In this article, a panel of experts in software analytics discuss the important and overlooked aspects of the software analytics field. Topics covered include what software analytics mean to the developers, practitioners, and information analysts and the opportunities for “natural” software analytics based on statistical natural language processing (NLP).

Ahmed E. Hassan Martin Shepperd Abram Hindle Prem Devanbu Per Runeson Sunghun Kim
on Nov 20, 2013
The Best Process Is No Process

Bureaucracy often plagues large product development efforts. Just like technical debt slows down development, process debt slows down your business. Have you ever experienced 12,096,000% savings in time? Clarify strategy. Automate processes. Parallelize work. Collaborate intently. Did you know a hidden MS project default may be causing inflexibility? Eliminate process debt. Get to market faster

Lukasz Szyrmer
on Nov 19, 2013
Costin Leau on Elasticsearch, BigData and Hadoop

Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud. The first milestone of elasticsearch-hadoop 1.3.M1 was released last month. InfoQ spoke with Costin Leau about Elasticsearch and how it integrates with Hadoop and other Big Data technologies.

Srini Penchikala
on Nov 15, 2013
Agile Fluency: Finding Agile That's Fit-for-Purpose

The Agile Fluency model is a way of thinking about and planning investments to create the conditions of Agile that best fit your development effort, business need, and customer value. James Shore and Diana Larsen described it in the 2012 article "Your Path through Agile Fluency". This article by Diana aims to helps you to use the Agile Fluency model effectively.

Diana Larsen
on Nov 12, 2013
API Business Models: 20 Models in 20 Minutes

How do you make money from APIs? In this keynote from the 2013 API Strategy Conference, John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb, reviews the different API business models that have been adopted by the worlds leading technology companies. John distills the variety of models down to four core categories and shows how API implementation aligns with different business strategies.

Saul Caganoff
on Nov 06, 2013

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