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  • Moving from a Monolith to Microservices at SoundCloud

    Moving SoundCloud into a microservices architecture has been essential in enabling our teams to develop production-ready features with much shorter feedback cycles, Phil Calçado writes in a three-part series sharing their experiences moving away from a monolithic system.

  • Managing your Software Debt

    Software debt exists in different ways. Technical debt is widely known, some other forms are competence debt and quality debt. Software debt can cause product maintenance costs to increase and can depress developers. Several solutions exist to manage software debt.

  • Martin Fowler Presented Workflows of Refactoring

    Martin Fowler published an article on his website describing the different workflows that could be used when refactoring and explaining the reasons for combining them.

  • How can Agile make you Faster?

    Delivering faster is one of the reasons that enterprises mention why want to use agile for software development. How can agile be used to become faster?

  • What’s new with Roslyn, Microsoft’s Compiler APIs

    Roslyn is a set of libraries for handling compilation, scripting, workspaces, and IDE services. It is an extensible model with VB and C# being the first two target languages. While still far from completion, Roslyn is targeting VB 12/C# 6, this release marks a major milestone for the project.

  • Ruby IDE Roundup: JetBrains Releases Rubymine 4.0, Ruby for NetBeans 7.1 in the Works

    JetBrains released version 4 of their Ruby IDE RubyMine. This release focuses on better performance, and contains incremental improvements and polishing in many areas. For NetBeans 7.1, a preview release of the community Ruby support is now available.

  • Mikado Method For Refactoring Legacy Software

    Daniel Brolund presented the Mikado method in a talk-cum-workshop here in Agile India 2012. This proposes a simple method for agile teams faced with poor legacy code, which needs to be refactored in pieces as and when new goals arrive.

  • Preview of Visual Studio 11: Agile Support, Group Collaboration, and Clone Detection

    VS11 will provide new tools that expedite unit testing, refactoring, and easier communication across the entire development team. These new components are intended to benefit everyone from developers, and testers to those deploying and maintaining the resulting application.

  • Jolt Award 2011 for Design, Planning, and Architecture Tools

    On October 26th, The Jolt Judges announced the awards for 2011 in the category “Design, Planning, and Architecture Tools”. In detail, the Jolt hall of fame now includes the products Paradigm for UML, Restructure 101, and Requirements Center 2010.

  • Building Visual Studio Extensions with Roslyn

    Yesterday we talked about the Roslyn Compiler and Workspace APIs. Today we take a look at the Roslyn Service APIs and how they can be used to extend Visual Studio. The extensions we will look at today are Code Issue, Quick Fix, Code Refactoring, Completion Provider, and Outliner.

  • Microsoft Unveils its Compiler as a Service

    Early reports suggested that the Rosyln project would just be a better runtime-accessible compiler and REPL-style interpreter, but it turns out that it is much more ambitious. By opening up the entire compiler pipeline Microsoft hopes that developers will create a wide variety of tools at many levels.

  • Stop Thinking During Refactoring

    Refactoring is a technique for changing the internal structure of the program without changing its external behavior. On the face of it, refactoring seems to involve a good amount of thinking, however, too much thinking could be detrimental as well.

  • MaintainJ 3.2 Released With Multiple Enhancements

    MaintainJ, a reverse engineering tools that provides runtime sequence and class diagrams for Java codebases, has released version 3.2</a> with multiple enchancements. MaintainJ is Eclipse-based and works on any IDE that is built on Eclipse platform.

  • Official Support for Jython in Visual Studio

    Python Tools for Visual Studio, which has its first production release today, now supports all four major Python interpreters, CPython, IronPython, Jython, and PyPy. It is available with the free Visual Studio Integrated Shell or as a plugin for Visual Studio Professional.

  • Upcoming Conference CompArch 2011 in Boulder, Colorado

    The CompArch Conference is a federated conference that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in Component-Based Software Development and Software Architecture. This year the event is held at the University of Colorado in the United States from June 20th to June 24th. As general chairs Ivica Cnrkovic and Judith Stafford were appointed.

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