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Interview with Sandi Metz on Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

On occasion of the second edition of her book “Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer”, InfoQ talked with Sandi about how her book was received, learning from open source code, making sensible use of code analysis tools and other topics.

Manuel Pais
on Jun 28, 2013
Adding Flexibility to your REST Implementation with Yoga

In cases when one desires to provide fine-grained control over the structure of the document responses based on the needs of their clients, Yoga is an open source alternative that integrates with existing REST applications. Yoga provides clients the ability to use selectors, which can be used as projection, selection and join relational operators.

Corby Page
on Jun 27, 2013
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

Victor Grazi
on Jun 25, 2013
Interview and Book Review: Effective JavaScript

In his recent book Effective JavaScript, author David Herman takes an in-depth look at the JavaScript programming language and how to use it effectively to write more portable, robust and maintainable applications and libraries. InfoQ spoke with David about new trends in JavaScript and writing effective JavaScript libraries.

Nilanjan Raychaudhuri
on Jun 21, 2013
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.

Martin Thompson
on Jun 17, 2013
Interview: Today's Java with Cay Horstmann

Cay S. Horstmann, author of Core Java Volumes 1 & 2, has written about Java since the beginning. Topics include the forthcoming Java 8, Java's vendor support, and the language's role in modern software development.

Jeff Martin
on Jun 13, 2013
Creating Resilient Software with Akka

Akka Tech Lead Dr. Roland Kuhn offers a behind the scenes look at Akka, showing what the driving forces behind the development of its guiding principles are.

Roland Kuhn
on Jun 06, 2013
Project Lambda from the Inside. An Interview with Brian Goetz

JSR-335: Project Lambda has been called the "defining" project in Java 8. InfoQ spoke to Oracle's Brian Goetz, JSR 335 spec lead about his observations on Project Lambda from the inside.

Victor Grazi
on May 27, 2013
Managing Build Jobs for Continuous Delivery

The number of jobs in a continuous integration tool can range from a few to several thousand, all performing various functions. There is an approach to manage these jobs in a more efficient manner.

Martin Peston
on May 24, 2013
Tuning the Size of Your Thread Pool

Thread pools can help us control the number of threads used by a system. A properly sized thread pool will allow as many requests to run as the hardware and application can comfortably support. A poorly tuned thread pool risks completely destabilizing the system. In this article we see how to apply the "measure don’t guess” mantra to properly size our production thread pools.

Kirk Pepperdine
on May 23, 2013
Interview and Book Review: The LogStash Book, Log Management Made Easy

James Turnbull makes a compelling case for using Logstash for centralizing logging by explaining the implementation details of Logstash within the context of a logging project. The book targets both small companies and large enterprises through a two sided case; both for the low barrier to entry and the scaling capabilities.

Aslan Brooke
on May 20, 2013
Book Review and Interview: Discover Meteor

Tom Coleman and Sacha Greif today published Discover Meteor, an introductory book on Meteor, a JavaScript-based web framework to simplify the development of real-time web applications. The book uses the application "Microscope", a simple real-time version of a Hacker News/Reddit-like site, as guiding example to demonstrate the features of Meteor as well as its ecosystem.

Zef Hemel
on May 08, 2013

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