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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
What Do You Look For In a Servant Leader?

In this article, let’s discuss the kind of qualities, preferences, and non-technical skills you might need in a servant leader, your potential Scrum Master, agile project manager, potential account manager, or whatever role you need filled.

Johanna Rothman
on Oct 29, 2013
Book Review: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition

The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition is a collaborative effort by Ronan Schwarz, Phil Dutson, James Steele and Nelson To. The authors have succeeded in providing a solid reference book. A book for mobile app developers that can serve as an authoritative guide for newbies and intermediate to expert devs for creating awesome mobile apps.

Martin Monroe
on Oct 19, 2013
PCI SSC 2013 Community Meeting Takeaways

Eric Sampson shares the industry trends and security state within the payment card industry as discussed during the PCI Security Standards Council community meeting recently held in Las Vegas.

Eric Sampson
on Oct 18, 2013
ATDD From the Trenches

A concrete example of how to get started with acceptance-test driven development on an existing code base. It is part of the solution to technical debt.

Henrik Kniberg
on Oct 17, 2013
Bridging Subsidiaries With the Cloud to Create a Global API

One of the biggest challenges in modern business is how you integrate subsidiaries and present a single global view so that customers and partners find it simpler to integrate with your organisation. In this article we will discuss a fictitious sample based on a real-world scenario and look at some of the challenges and good practices that you should look to implement to be successful.

Michael Stephenson
on Oct 15, 2013
Interview: Adrian Cockcroft on High Availability, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned in the Cloud

Netflix is a widely referenced case study for how to effectively operate a cloud application at scale. While their hyper-resilient approach may not be necessary at most organizations, Netflix has advanced the conversation about what it means to build modern systems. In this interview, InfoQ spoke with Adrian Cockcroft who is the Cloud Architect for the Netflix platform.

Richard Seroter
on Oct 11, 2013
Interview with Tiago Garcez about Why Agile?

“Would you recommend Agile in every situation?” The answer from Tiago Garcez on this question is “Yes!”. But sometimes people are unsure what agile means and what an organization can do to become agile? Tiago talked at Agile Tour Brussels about why agile is better suited to the challenges that companies are facing, the value that agile can deliver, and how you can start an agile transition.

Ben Linders
on Oct 10, 2013
Preparing for Your First MongoDB Deployment: Capacity Planning and Monitoring

In this article, author Mat Keep discusses the deployment best practices of MongoDB databases with focus on capacity planning and monitoring aspects. He also explains the topics like hardware selection, key metrics for monitoring and when it’s time to add shards.

Mat Keep
on Oct 08, 2013

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