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Qualifying An Agile NearShore Or Offshore Supplier
Fundamentally offshoring and nearshoring software development are at odds with the principals of agile software development. But the financial and labor supply realities of the world have forced this principal to be bent and teams now seek guidance on how best to qualify an agile nearshore or offshore supplier. This articles tries to take a deeper on this topic.
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Interview With Nick Lavezzo, Co-Founder of FoundationDB
FoundationDB is a database that provides ACID guarantees along with high performance and availability normally associated with NoSQL databases. In an InfoQ exclusive interview, we learn more about the project from one of the founders, Nick Lavezzo.
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InfoQ Takes a Closer Look at Oracle’s ADF Mobile
Now that the dust has settled on the unveiling of Oracle’s Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile, InfoQ examines the reactions to the product from the community.
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Amazon Makes Compelling Case for Hosting and Processing Your Big Data
The AWS team has announced a limited preview of Amazon Redshift, a cloud-hosted data warehouse whose cost and capabilities are poised to disrupt the industry. In addition, AWS revealed two new massive compute instance types, and a data integration tool called Data Pipeline.
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How Competencies and Mental Shifts Help Agile Adoption
Two stories describing how professionals discovered ways to move from “using a waterfall process” to “becoming agile”, and dealt with their concerns along the way.
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HTTP 2.0 First Draft Published
The editors of the HTTP specification have published an initial draft of v2 which is a straight copy of SPDY and will be used as a base for diffs going forward. Many changes are expected to be done like adding new features, removing existing ones, changing the bytes on the wire, etc. A draft ready for test implementations is expected to be published early next year.
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Change and Permanence
How do we embrace agile software development, while protecting business transactions from harm, and dispute? The legal profession is risk adverse, and seeks permanence over change. But complex software development require adaptation to change. This article summarizes one angle on this debate.
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QCon London 2013 Registration Now Open; March 6-8
The 7th annual QCon London (March 6-8) has been announced and registration is open! QCon London has become a mainstay conference for the UK and European software development community. This year continues in our tradition of practitioner-driven high quality content with over 15 tracks and 100 speakers including keynotes Damian Conway, Barbara Liskov, and Ward Cunningham.
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Shoehorning Java into RESTful Design
In a recent Zapthink article the author discusses why Java and JAX-RS 2.0 are not always appropriate for building RESTful services. Much has been said about the improvements in JAX-RS 2.0 but it is the Java object model which the author believes is at the heart of at least one of the problems, with REST being shoehorned into Java or vice versa.
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Self Evaluate User Experience of Apps
In the Build 2012, Lora Heiny, Senior Program Manager, Windows Partner Ecosystem and Will Tschumy, Principal User Experience Advisor at Microsoft delivered a session where they presented few tips which should be followed to evaluate the UX of a Windows 8 application including that of Windows Store apps.
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RabbitMQ Gets Simpler, Better At STOMP, MQTT
RabbitMQ 3.0 was recently released with STOMP 1.2 support, new plugins for Web-STOMP and MQTT, more user-friendly commands for clustering, per-message TTL, several performance improvements and more.
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ModelMapper: An Object To Object Mapping Library
ModelMapper is an object to object mapping library that eliminates repeatable code for copying objects from one representation to another. By looking at property names it can perform an automatic mapping or hints can be defined that describe precisely the mapping process. It is inspired from AutoMapper which is a similar library for .NET
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Amazon Provides Simple Workflow Service Recipes
A new Amazon whitepaper provides a set of commonly used programming patterns that can be used in application's decider logic to tell SWF how to coordinate the application's work.
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Corona Improves Hadoop Scalability At Facebook
Facebook has open sourced Corona, an in-house developed improvement to Hadoop MapReduce scheduling software.
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Cross Blog Debates Rage as California Attorney General turns heat up on Mobile Dev’s
Kamala Harris sent shock waves through the mobile app developer community with her authoritarian ultimatum.Time is ticking on her recent 30-day warning of steep fines for mobile software developers selling mobile applications in the State of California that do not issue privacy warnings before their app is downloaded.