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  • Practical Cassandra: A Developer's Approach - Book Review and Interview

    Practical Cassandra: A Developer's Approach book by Russell Bradberry and Eric Lubow, is a developer's guide to build applications using Cassandra NoSQL database. InfoQ spoke with the authors about the book, Cassandra data model, design considerations and how Cassandra performs concurrency and versioning of the data sets.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Aug 21, 2014

  • A Few Good Rules

    Peter Neumark from Prezi talks about the importance of deciding what development standards to adopt and to detect when they're past their expiry date. Using Netflix and Prezi as examples, Peter illustrates with technical examples when to stick to standards and when to move on to better solutions.

    Peter Neumark
    on Jul 25, 2014

  • Shift Left Performance Testing - a Different Approach

    This article will explain a different approach to traditional Multi User Performance testing; using the same tools but combine them with modern data visualisation techniques to gain early insight into location specific performance and application areas that may have "sleeping" performance issues.

    Bernhard Klemm
    on Jul 10, 2014

  • Book Review and Q&A of Strength-based Lean Six Sigma

    The book Strength-based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement by David Shaked supports applying strength-based change approaches with lean thinking and Six Sigma. InfoQ interviewed David about applying strength-based techniques like appreciative inquiry, solution focused, positive deviance and 5-why's with Lean Six Sigma, and measuring performance in organizations.

    Ben Linders
    on Jun 16, 2014

  • Review and Interview with Dean Hume - Author of Fast ASP.NET Websites

    In the review, Anand examines the coverage of Fast ASP.NET Websites authored by Dean Hume. The book helps developers to learn the various techniques associated with the optimization of ASP.NET websites.

    Anand Narayanaswamy
    on Jun 13, 2014

  • Bug Fixing Vs. Problem Solving - From Agile to Lean

    Lean has proved to be instrumental in moving beyond Agile to set up a practice of continuous improvement with direct effects on team performance and engagement. Making a clear distinction between bugs and problems has proved to be instrumental in this improvement.

    Cecil Dijoux
    on Apr 07, 2014

  • Reliable Auto-Scaling using Feedback Control

    Philipp K. Janert explains how to reliably auto-scale systems using a reactive approach based on feedback control which provides a more accurate solution than deterministic or rule-based ones.

    Philipp K. Janert
    on Feb 19, 2014

  • Modern Enterprise Performance Analysis Antipatterns

    In this article we present some of the most common performance analysis antipatterns in the enterprise platform, expressed in terms of their basic causes along with remediation strategies.

    Ben Evans
    on Feb 15, 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

  • Visualizing Java Garbage Collection

    Garbage Collection, like Backgammon takes minutes to learn and a lifetime to master. In this article Master trainer/consultant Ben Evans summarizes his recent InfoQ presentation "Visualizing Garbage Collection" where he discusses Garbage Collection from the ground up.

    Ben Evans
    on Dec 25, 2013

  • Cassandra CLI Internals Using JArchitect

    Cassandra CLI is a useful tool for Cassandra administrators. It's a good example of how to implement a Cassandra client and CLI internals help us to develop custom Cassandra clients or even extend the CLI tool. In this article, author explores Cassandra CLI architecture model using JArchitect tool and CQLinq language to analyze its code base.

    Dane Dennis
    on Dec 19, 2013

  • Inter-thread communications in Java at the speed of light

    Developing a light-weight, lockless, inter-thread communication framework in Java without using any locks, synchronizers, semaphores, waits, notifies; and no queues, messages, events or any other concurrency specific words or tools. Just get POJOs communicating behind plain old Java interfaces.

    Aliaksei Papou
    on Dec 10, 2013
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