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Jags Ramnarayan on In-Memory Data Grids

In-memory data grids (IMDG) are gaining lot of attention recently because of their support for dynamic scalability and high performance for data intensive applications. InfoQ spoke with Jags Ramnarayan, Chief Architect for GemFire products at VMWare, about the architecture of in-memory data grids, their advantages compared to the traditional databases, and emerging trends in this space.

Srini Penchikala
on Apr 12, 2012
Results from InfoQ 2012 User Survey

In February, we launched the 2012 InfoQ User survey to gauge community interest in various topics, technologies, and practices. 2,850 people completed the survey, with thousands of respondents providing detailed feedback on their areas of interest. The following report summarizes some of our key findings, things that surprised us, and reactions/analysis from members of the InfoQ editorial team.

Nitin Bharti
on Apr 11, 2012
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2012

This article presents the main takeaway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged or tweeted about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Tutorials, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Agile Adoption, Big Data and NoSQL, Cross Platform Mobile, Highly-available systems, Java Platform (hard-core Java) and many more!

Abel Avram
on Apr 05, 2012
Lessons For IT From The Early Days of the FBI

J. Edgar Hoover is a controversial name in history, but his experiences building and running one of the key intelligence agencies in the world are very applicable to running IT organizations today.

JP Morgenthal
on Apr 04, 2012
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...

Amit Jain
on Apr 03, 2012
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.

Jonathan Allen
on Apr 02, 2012
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.

Joachim Haagen Skeie
on Mar 22, 2012
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!

Johan Den Haan
on Mar 15, 2012
Architecture & Design

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.

Arunava Chatterjee
on Mar 12, 2012
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.

Benjamin Fagin
on Mar 06, 2012
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.

Man-Tak Shing James Bret Michael Doron Drusinsky Thomas W. Otani
on Mar 05, 2012
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.

Jenni Jepsen
on Mar 05, 2012

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