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  • Choosing the Right ESB for Your Integration Needs

    Kai Wähner explains the differences between an integration framework, an ESB and an integration suite, following with advice for selecting the right one from existing commercial and open source solutions.

  • Capturing Compliance Requirements: A Pattern-Based Approach

    Assuring compliance across an enterprise is critical and necessitates a holistic approach for defining a consistent set of process and system level controls. In this article, authors discuss a new pattern-based framework to capture and manage business process compliance requirements. They also talk about implementation of the framework and two case studies in banking and e-business domains.

  • Application Performance Management Maturity Model

    In this article, author Jim Hirschauer justifies the importance of application performance management (APM) process in organizations. He also describes a maturity model for application performance management with three different levels of maturity.

  • Evaluating Agile and Scrum with Other Software Methodologies

    Historical data is a key resource for judging the effectiveness of software process improvement methods and also for calibrating software estimation accuracy. In this article, Capers Jones compares Agile and Scrum with a sample of contemporary software development methods using several standard metrics.

  • Growing EAI with Apache Camel

    This article comprises practical examples of typical integration challenges and explores how Apache Camel can meet these challenges. These examples are presented in the context of an integration solution that starts simply but grows over time as new integration needs arise. The article concentrates on how Camel helps managing complexity and keeping the team productive.

  • Self-Organizing Organizations (For Real)

    This is a true story about a company that operates under principles of self-organization. It is organized according to the free will of each individual in the company, all of them freely choosing to co-operate for achieving some goals. All you’ve ever wanted to know about self-organized companies, without daring actually run one.

  • Application Security Testing: The Double-sided Black Box

    In this article, Rohit Sethi discusses one of the biggest risks with software security, the opaque nature of verification tools and processes, and the potential for false negatives not covered by the different verification techniques. He also talks about some examples of security requirements and examines how common verification methods apply to them.

  • Cloudberry: An HTML5 Cloud Phone Platform for Mobile Devices

    In this article, authors introduce Cloudberry, an HTML5-based cloud phone software which offers the benefit of changing features on mobile devices almost instantly. They also talk about challenges of using this platform.

  • Interview and Book Review: Enterprise Software Delivery

    "Enterprise Software Delivery" is the latest book by Alan W. Brown, and is a must-read guide for anybody concerned with the development and delivery of software in a large organisation.

  • Designing and Implementing Hypermedia APIs

    This article (the second in a four-part series) walks through the implementation of a hypermedia server based on the design for the class scheduling problem domain outlined in the first installment of this series. In upcoming weekly installments of the series, details of implementing hypermedia clients will be reviewed along with techniques for evolving the API safely over time.

  • Jonah Kowall on Application Performance Monitoring and Management

    Application Performance Management (APM) focuses on monitoring and managing the performance and availability of software applications running in an enterprise. Jonah Kowall from Gartner team co-authored the Gartner Magic Quadrant report on Application Performance Monitoring. InfoQ spoke with Jonah about the APM space, techniques and tools and emerging trends in this area.

  • Automating Data Protection Across the Enterprise

    This article builds on the foundational Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing (RC3) architecture for application security in the cloud by defining a Data Encryption Infrastructure(DEI) which is not application specific. DEI encompasses technology components and an application architecture that governs the protection of sensitive data within an enterprise.

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