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  • A Web API Design Methodology

    This article provides a brief overview of the design methodology covered in the book "RESTful Web APIs" by Richardson and Amundsen.

    Mike Amundsen
    on Dec 07, 2014

  • Natural Course of Refactoring – a Refactoring Workflow

    This article provides ideas about how to approach refactoring based on the complexity and stability of the codebase (Feather's Quadrant) and proposes a refactoring workflow based on a four step process and some practical suggestions on how to apply it.

    Mariusz Sieraczkiewicz
    on Nov 30, 2014

  • Personal UX -- Solving Unique Problems Created by Widespread Global Mobilization

    Smartphone users are estimated to number 3.5 billion by 2019, and the different usages (mobile is most common during morning commutes and late at night, for example) create new challenges and opportunities. Data collection via our devices, smart-home gadgets and even our cars allows software engineers to offer increasingly personalized user experiences.

    Dmytro Svarytsevych
    on Oct 30, 2014

  • Why SOA Should Be Viewed As “Dependency-Oriented Thinking”

    Ganesh Prasad proposes minimizing service dependencies in a SOA implementation rather than avoiding point-to-point connections in order to obtain a more flexible system that can evolve over time.

    Ganesh Prasad
    on Oct 16, 2014

  • The Life and Times of TDD

    Scott Ambler discusses a recent mini-survey designed to find out how TDD is being used in practice. He examines the state of practice and what techniques and tools are being used with TDD.

    Scott Ambler
    on Sep 04, 2014

  • What UX is and isn't?

    User Experience is part of a collaborative, self-contained and balanced team that has all the necessary roles to be wholly responsible for building the right thing, and building the thing right.User experience runs deep, is way more than the UI, and starts in the abstract with the strategy.

    Aaron Sanders
    on Aug 24, 2014

  • Agile Architecture Applied

    Agile is adaptive. When and how to apply architecture depends on the context. This article first explains why this is the case and then how you can still give proper attention to architecture in an agile setting. Adaptability and conversation are the essentials.

    Wim Heemskerk Minze Tolsma
    on Jun 23, 2014
  • Architecture & Design

    Microservices: Decomposing Applications for Deployability and Scalability

    What are microservices? This article describes the increasingly popular Microservice architecture pattern, used to architect large, complex and long-lived applications as a set of cohesive services that evolve over time.

    Chris Richardson
    on May 25, 2014

  • 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

  • Sustainable Architectural Design Decisions

    Software architects must create designs that can endure throughout software evolution. In this article, based on a research study the authors discuss the criteria that can help architects assess architectural design decisions’ sustainability. They describe the challenges to achieving sustainable decisions, criteria for such decisions, solutions they tried, and lessons learned.

    Huy Tran Olaf Zimmermann Rafael Capilla Uwe Zdun
    on Mar 09, 2014

  • Quality Code - Book Review and Interview

    Quality Code book, authored by Stephen Vance, covers the different aspects of software development lifecycle with focus on delivering quality product. In the book, Stephen discusses the practices for supporting software craftsmanship testing. InfoQ spoke with the author about the book and the best practices for testing application code.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Feb 25, 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
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