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Don't SCIM over your Data Model

This opinion piece discusses three specific suggestions for improving the SCIM data model: 1. Both the enterprise client and cloud provider should map their internal IDs to a shared External ID, which is the only ID exposed through the API. 2. Multi-valued attributes of a resource must be converted from an array into a dictionary with unique keys. 3. 3 ways to improve the PATCH command

Ganesh Prasad
on Aug 08, 2012
Wireframes: A Great Way to Start Development Projects

In this article, Andreas Wulf introduces wireframing as a simple and effective way to kickstart your development projects. Wireframes allow you to present your ideas in a tangible form so that can be shared and debated (without writing any code). By leaving out graphic design details, wireframes are not only quick and easy to create and change, they help us stay focused on the “big picture”.

Andreas Wulf
on Aug 07, 2012
A Brave New World of Testing? An Interview with Google's James Whittaker

Cloud Computing is creating substantial changes to the usual way of doing business. How should organizations leverage this approach to improve testing and quality assurance of software? To get an answer, author Forrest Shull spoke with James Whittaker from Google about cloud computing testing.

Forrest Shull
on Aug 06, 2012
Cloud Computing Described Through The Analogy of (US) Thanksgiving Dinner

This article explains Cloud computing using the analogy of US Thanksgiving dinner.

JP Morgenthal
on Jul 25, 2012
Introducing: Restful Objects

Restful Objects is a public specification of a hypermedia API for domain object models. Version 1.0.0 of the specification has just been released and there are already two open source frameworks that implement the specification - one for the Java platform and one for .NET.

Dan Haywood Richard Pawson
on Jul 19, 2012
Book Review: Java Application Architecture

Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples using OSGi is Kirk Knoernschild's seminal book on a pattern catalogue for modular systems design. Starting with an overview of the arguments for modularity, the main section in the book introduces eighteen categorised patterns for module development, and concludes with an OSGi example. InfoQ spoke to Kirk to find out more about it.

Alex Blewitt
on Jul 18, 2012
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2012

The first annual QCon New York brought together over 400 team leads, architects and engineering directors. This article summarizes the key takeaways from the event as blogged and tweeted by attendees.

Abel Avram
on Jul 17, 2012
Virtual Panel: NoSQL Database Patterns and Polyglot Persistence

NoSQL database space has different databases that support different data storage patterns. InfoQ spoke with four panelists about the current state of NoSQL adoption, architecture patterns supported by different NoSQL databases, polyglot persistence and security aspects when using NoSQL databases.

Srini Penchikala
on Jul 03, 2012
DevOps:Evolving to Handle Disruption

With continued concerns regarding IT’s ability to meet the demands of the business in light of disruptive influences and a changing economic landscape DevOps might hold an answer.

JP Morgenthal
on Jun 13, 2012
A Distributed Access Control Architecture for Cloud Computing

Cloud computing’s multitenancy and virtualization features pose unique security and access control challenges. In this article, authors discuss a distributed architecture based on the principles from security management and software engineering to address cloud computing’s security challenges.

Arif Ghafoor Walid G. Aref Abdulrahman A. Almutairi Saleh Basalamah Muhammad I. Sarfraz
on Jun 12, 2012
A Look At Elemental Design Patterns

Jason McC. Smith speaks with InfoQ regarding his new book, "Elemental Design Patterns", and details his approach to evolving how design patterns are documented.

Jeff Martin
on Jun 07, 2012
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Data Modeling: Sample E-Commerce System with MongoDB

The rich document capabilities and atomic operation guarantees in MongoDB makes it possible to model many different applications. Even rigorous requirements of conventional applications like e-commerce system are possible in a document database. This data model (i.e. "schema design,") is useful for developing applications around any restricted resource system, not just e-commerce systems.

Christian Kvalheim
on Jun 06, 2012

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