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  • Grails Best Practices

    Basic best practices for Grails projects gathered from mailing list, Stack Overflow, blogs, podcasts and internal discussions at IntelliGrape, categorized under controller, service, domain, views...

  • Steven Renders on Microsoft Dynamics NAV

    We interviewed Steven Renders, author of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting. Dynamics NAV is a nearly 30 year old Enterprise Resource Planning platform that currently boasts over 300,000 users across 42 countries.

  • Ember.js: Rich Web Applications Done Right

    This article walks you through building an application with Ember.js, showing the MVC system, data binding, as well as how to build GUI and Touch support.

  • The Need to Focus on App Delivery Lifecycle in PaaS

    An App Delivery Platform-as-a-Service is not only a development platform. It is also a social platform, a deployment platform, and a user engagement platform. An App Delivery Platform-asa-Service is all about delivering apps that perfectly fit the business, it’s about creating business value, it’s about enabling the business to be successful!

  • Healthy Architectures - Using CQRS and Event Sourcing for Electronic Medical Records

    The health care industry has been migrating to electronic medical/health records (EMR/EHR) for some time. Hopwever, problems such as performance and scalability, along with maintaining traceability and reconstructing healthcare related business events need to be addressed. The article introduces the use of techniques and patterns for providing these quality attributes.

  • Generating Avro Schemas from XML Schemas Using JAXB

    Apache Avro is an up and coming binary marshalling framework. In his new article Benjamin Fagin explains how one can leverage existing XSD tooling to create data definitions and then use XJC plugin to directly generate AVRO schemes and marshaling classes.

  • Verification and Validation for Trustworthy Software Systems

    In this IEEE article, authors discuss a continuous verification and validation of complex and safety-critical software systems using techniques like statechart assertions, runtime execution monitoring, and scenario-based testing.

  • Communicate Business Value to Your Stakeholders

    Often project leaders—even Agile project leaders—talk about their projects in terms of features. Yes, and what do features really mean for stakeholders? Features are what your system or process can do. Benefits are why people care. And benefits equal business value. Learn why and how to communicate benefits rather than features—and what it will mean for you, your team and your organization.

  • Book on Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles by Leonid Grinshpan

    Performance is one of the most critical attributes for enterprise applications. Even though not mentioned explicitly, properties such as response time or throughput are key issues that decide about user acceptance.Leonid Grinshpan, PhD and Consulting Director at Oracle Corporation, has dedicated his book "Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles" to this topic.

  • Evolution in Data Integration From EII to Big Data

    With the emergence of inexpensive cloud-based storage and cost-effective ways to process large volumes and complex data there has been a shift in approach toward data integration.

  • Faster, Better, Higher – But How?

    One of the main challenges when designing software architecture is the consideration of quality attributes. Not only their design turns out to be difficult, but also the specification of these attributes. Consequently, many problems in software systems are directly related to the specification and design of quality attributes such as modifiability or performance, to name just a few.

  • Pattern-Based Architecture Reviews

    In this IEEE article, authors Neil Harrison and Paris Avgeriou discuss a pattern-based architecture review (PBAR) process to help with system-wide quality attributes. They also discuss how PBAR approach helps with agile practices like frequent releases, changes for user needs, and lightweight documentation. They illustrate the benefits of PBAR process with a real-world project.

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