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Kotlin at Ten. Interview with JetBrains’ Roman Elizarov

JetBrains unveiled Kotlin in July 2011, aiming to create a modern, general-purpose programming language running on the JVM as well as on the Web. Kotlin has quickly seen huge adoption, especially for Android app development. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Kotlin project lead at JetBrains Roman Elizarov to learn more about the origins of the language and its future.

Roman Elizarov Sergio De Simone
on Sep 06, 2021
Culture & Methods

Software Engineering at Google: Practices, Tools, Values, and Culture

The book Software Engineering at Google provides insights into the practices and tools used at Google to develop and maintain software with respect to time, scale, and the tradeoffs that all engineers make in development. It also explores the engineering values and the culture that’s based on them, emphasizing the main differences between programming and software engineering.

Ben Linders Titus Winters Tom Manshreck Hyrum Wright
on Jun 02, 2021
Development

Go Language at 13 Years: Ecosystem, Evolution, and Future in Conversation with Steve Francia

Go was started more than a decade ago in the Engineering department at Google. It was designed with the purpose of providing an easy-to-learn programming language that would allow to develop Google's systems at the next level. In the past decade, the language became more and more stable, currently being used for implementing some of the most popular tools on the web (Kubernetes, Terraform etc.).

Olimpiu Pop Steve Francia
on Dec 30, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Competing with Unicorns

The book Competing with Unicorns by Jonathan Rasmusson explores the culture of tech unicorns like Google, Amazon, and Spotify, and dives into the techniques and practices that they use to develop software.

Ben Linders Jonathan Rasmusson
on Nov 09, 2020
DevOps

What’s Next in DevOps?

The DevOps movement continues to grow and gain influence in the IT world and the business world at large. As the organisations become increasingly digital, the agility of our IT systems becomes critical to the life and health of the companies.

Andrew Davis
on Mar 27, 2020
Mobile

Is Project Treble the Answer to Android Updates?

While iOS updates can be usually installed on all supported devices the day they are released, Android updates are annoyingly slow to roll out. As a result, fragmentation has been a major problem in the Android world for several years. Project Treble is an attempt to remedy this entire set of problems. This article will introduce its architecture and discuss its chances of success.

Shahid Mansuri
on Feb 05, 2018 2
AI, ML & Data Engineering

An Introduction to Differential Privacy

Differential privacy leapt from research papers to tech news headlines last year when, in the WWDC keynote, Apple VP of Engineering Craig Federighi announced Apple’s use of the concept to protect user privacy in iOS. This article gives a definition of differential privacy and example of differentially private algorithms.

Charlie Cabot
on Jan 22, 2017 1
Architecture & Design

The InfoQ Podcast: Shuman Ghosemajumder on Security and Cyber-Crime

In this week's podcast, professor Barry Burd talks to Shuman Ghosemajumder VP of product management at Shape Security on Security and Cyber-Crime at QCon New York 2016.

Barry Burd
on Aug 01, 2016
Development

Go in Action - Review and Q&A with the Author

Go in Action is a new book from Manning that aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Go, both its syntax and implementation, and its most common idioms. InfoQ has spoken with William Kennedy, author of the book.

Sergio De Simone
on Dec 04, 2015
Big Data as a Service, an Interview with Google's William Vambenepe

Many of the Big Data technologies in common use originated from Google and have become popular open source platforms, but now Google is bringing an increasing range of big data services to market as part of its Google Cloud Platform. InfoQ caught up with Google's William Vambenepe, who's lead product manager for Big Data services to ask him about the shift towards service based consumption.

Chris Swan
on Jul 06, 2015
Running Google App Engine Apps in JBoss AS7: Aleš Justin Discusses CapeDwarf

During JUDCon China 2012 Red Hat's Aleš Justin introduced Project CapeDwarf, a Google AppEngine API implemented with JBoss and other open source libraries. Sai Yang, Senior Planning Editor of InfoQ China, spoke with him about why he started the project, what challenges the project has faced, and his experiences as a software developer in general.

Sai Yang
on Feb 18, 2013
Interview and Book Review: How Google Tests Software

"How Google Tests Software" by James Whittaker, Jason Arbon and Jeff Carollo is a book that details exactly what is described on the cover. It is an informative and interesting look beneath the covers of how a large technical organization like Google deals with the complexity of software testing.

Craig Smith
on Sep 11, 2012 1