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  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2013

    The main takeway points and lessons learned from QCon New York 2013 as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Experience QCon through the opinions of the attendees!

  • The Technology behind Codenvy. An Interview with Tyler Jewell, CEO

    Codenvy is an online IDE supporting applications development in Java, JavaScript, HTML5, PHP, Ruby and other languages, with built-in support for deploying the apps on a PaaS. This article includes an interview with Tyler Jewell, CEO, detailing some of the technologies behind Codenvy.

  • Zato - Python-based ESB and Backend Application Server

    Zato is an open-source ESB and application server written in Python. It is designed to integrate systems in SOA and to build backend applications (i.e. API only).

  • The Corporate Agile Journey �� A Practical Viewpoint

    Agile delivery, and agility in general, is not only a compelling opportunity but in many cases a necessity for survival. Although there are particular cultural and other obstacles to overcome, large organisations may be surprised at how far they already are on the road to greater agility. A suitably tailored journey plan will help harness what’s already out there and build effectively upon it.

  • Windows and Line of Business Applications: No Good Options

    At Build 2013 Microsoft unveiled a number of new features that make the WinRT platform more interesting for developers working on LOB applications, but without a deployment story WinRT simply isn’t viable. Meanwhile WPF, like Silverlight and WinForms, has entered its twilight phase.

  • Cassandra Mythology

    In this article, author Jonathan Ellis addresses the concerns of using Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, in terms of architecture, deployment and configuration, performance, query language (CQL), and database maturity.

  • Virtual Panel: Performance Tuning Face-Off

    In the world of application delivery, performance tuning still seems to elude the mainstream. InfoQ spoke to five luminaries of the performance monitoring space about why and what can be done. The result was quite an active debate. Members of the virtual panel: • Ben Evans • Charlie Hunt • Kirk Pepperdine • Martin Thompson • Monica Beckwith

  • Interview with Eduardo Miranda about Estimating and Planning Agile Projects

    Eduardo Miranda, associate professor at the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University explains the need for planning in agile projects, and describes various planning techniques that can be used with agile. He also looks on the impact of agile on project management offices and on the role of project managers in agile projects.

  • Java Garbage Collection Distilled

    CMS, G1, Young Gen, New Gen, Old Gen, Eden, and the hundreds of JVM start-up flags... does this all baffle you when trying to tune the garbage collector to get the required throughput and latency from your Java application? Don’t worry, you are not alone. This article will attempt to explain the tradeoffs when choosing and tuning garbage collection algorithms for a particular workload.

  • Graph Databases - Book Review and Interview

    "Graph Databases" book covers the Graph based NoSQL database technology and different options available for storing "Connected Data" in the real world applications. InfoQ spoke with co-authors Ian Robinson and Jim Webber about the book, role of Graph Databases in the NoSQL database space, and what’s coming up in the Graph Databases.

  • Mike Barlow on Real-Time Big Data Analytics

    "Real-Time Big Data Analytics: Emerging Architecture" white paper authored by Mike Barlow covers big data analytics topic and how real-time big data analytics (RTBDA) are different from traditional analytics. InfoQ spoke with Mike about the current state of real-time big data analytics and the emerging trends in the Big Data space like Decision Science.

  • Software Development: How the Traditional Contract Model Increases the Risk of Failure

    Susan Atkinson and Gabrielle Benefield argue that the standard contract model for software development is based on outdated and flawed assumptions, and that this is contributing to the high rates of failure in IT projects, regardless of whether the IT projects are resourced internally or outsourced to a third party. The contract model is in need of a total overhaul.

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