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Russ Miles on Antifragility and Microservices

Currently, Antifragility and Microservices are trending topics and this might be a hint that there are new architectural paradigms or design patterns on their way for building application systems.. We're discussing these new concepts with Russ Miles to find out what they are good for and how to apply them in an architect's or developer's daily business - for existing applications and those to come

Ralph Winzinger
on May 13, 2014
Improving Your Asynchronous Code Using Tasks, Async and Await

Dave Marini delves into the history of asynchronous programming on the .NET platform, tracing through the early days of the Asynchronous Programming Model to today’s async/await patterns.

Dave Marini
on May 06, 2014
Distributing Complex Services in Cross-Geolocational IDCs

In this interview, first published on InfoQ China, Micro Sun describes some of the techniques Tencent use to scale Qzone, a social networking platform in China with over 600 million monthly active users,

Arthur Shui
on Apr 09, 2014
SQL Server 2014: NoSQL Speeds with Relational Capabilities

For the last four years Microsoft has been working on the first rewrite of SQL Server’s query execution since 1998. The goal is to offer NoSQL-like speeds without sacrificing the capabilities of a relational database. At the heart of this is Hekaton, their memory optimized tables. While still accessible via traditional T-SQL operations, internally they are a fundamentally different technology.

Jonathan Allen
on Mar 19, 2014
Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure

Raffi Krikorian, Vice President of Platform Engineering at Twitter, gives an insight on how Twitter prepares for unexpected traffic peaks and how system architecture is designed to support failure.

Xuefeng Ding
on Jan 19, 2014
To Execution profile or to Memory Profile? That is the question.

There are times when memory profiling will provide a clearer picture than execution profiling to find execution hot spots. In this article Kirk Pepperdine talks through some indicators for determining when to use which kind of profiler.

Kirk Pepperdine
on Dec 04, 2013
Virtual Panel: Using Java in Low Latency Environments

Java is increasingly being used for low latency work where previously C and C++ were the de-facto choice. InfoQ brought together four experts in the field to discuss what is driving the trend, and some of the best practices when using Java in these situations.

Charles Humble
on Aug 01, 2013
Correctly Building Asynchronous Libraries in .NET

Building an asynchronous library requires very specific design patterns that can be quite different from the patterns used when consuming an asynchronous library. But if you follow some basic rules you can greatly improve the experience for the consumers of your libraries.

Jonathan Allen
on Jul 16, 2013
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.

Srini Penchikala
on Feb 15, 2013
Transitioning from RDBMS to NoSQL. Interview with Couchbase’s Dipti Borkar

While relational databases have been used for decades to store data, and they still represent a viable solution for many use cases, NoSQL is being chosen today especially for scalability and performance reasons. This article contains an interview with Dipti Borkar, Director of Product Management at Couchbase, on the challenges, benefits and the process of migrating from RDBMS to NoSQL.

Abel Avram
on Sep 08, 2012
Architecture & Design

Healthy Architectures - Using CQRS and Event Sourcing for Electronic Medical Records

The health care industry has been migrating to electronic medical/health records (EMR/EHR) for some time. Hopwever, problems such as performance and scalability, along with maintaining traceability and reconstructing healthcare related business events need to be addressed. The article introduces the use of techniques and patterns for providing these quality attributes.

Arunava Chatterjee
on Mar 12, 2012
Book on Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles by Leonid Grinshpan

Performance is one of the most critical attributes for enterprise applications. Even though not mentioned explicitly, properties such as response time or throughput are key issues that decide about user acceptance.Leonid Grinshpan, PhD and Consulting Director at Oracle Corporation, has dedicated his book "Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles" to this topic.

Michael Stal
on Feb 29, 2012

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