InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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The Craftsman Learns ... or Learning the Craft
Pete Goodliffe provokes his listeners to keep learning, offering advice on how to approach learning, what is valuable and what can be ignored, how to deal with new things, having a healthy attitude.
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Making the Business Case
We know solving DevOps problems improves your business operations but how do you do you explain that to your CEO or CFO? How do you get the executives to buy in and invest in DevOps solutions?
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DevOps outside of Web Operations
Much of the public discussion about DevOps focuses on Web Operations. This panel is about taking the lessons of DevOps to other types of IT.
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Making SOA Work in a Healthcare Company
Brian Nicks tells the lessons learned by a healthcare company which inherited many technologies from Java to .Net to RPG to CICS to COBOL, deciding that the integration solution was to implement SOA.
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MongoDB @ SourceForge
Mark Ramm talks on why they chose MongoDB for SourceForge, how it compared to other possible solutions, the problems encountered, how they fixed them, overall lessons learned, and answering questions.
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The Joy of Testing
John Hughes shows how to explore the bugs of a code by creating a series of tests in Erlang and using multiple test frameworks, discovering the faults and evaluating the frameworks while doing it.
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Lean Lessons Learned: Our Experiences Moving to Kanban
Tim Wingfield tells his story moving from Scrum to Kanban, presenting several versions of Kanban boards used, and some practices: retrospectives, pair programming, code review, and stand-up meetings.
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DevOps Requires Visibility: Monitoring, Testing and Performance
Examining the role of monitoring and testing techniques in solving DevOps problems.
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Domain Event-Driven Architecture
Stefan Norberg introduces Domain Event-Driven Architecture, how it helps SOA, and how it has been used by Unibet to make its architecture less coupled, resulting in better performance and scalability.
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Auntie on the Couch
Enda Farrell discusses how CouchDB is used by BBC, presenting the context, the operations performed against it, how replication and compacting works, some statistics, and how it is used at scale.
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Feeding the Agile Beast
Dean Stevens proposes a way of integrating the business value concept into everyday Agile activity in order to achieve a higher value for an enterprise.
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Pragmatic SOA Beyond Buzzwords and Flamewars
Stefan Tilkov discusses SOA basic concepts by making a number of claims, such as “An ESB should not be at the core of your SOA”, followed by explanations and related recommendations.