BT

Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development

Write for InfoQ

Topics

Choose your language

InfoQ Homepage Architecture Content on InfoQ

  • Making Sense of the Social Web with Microsoft Social Analytics (Vancouver)

    Microsoft is making available a cloud service called Social Analytics for users interested in analyzing Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, etc. in order to get insight on the trends on the social web.

  • 10 Predictions About Cloud Computing

    In preparation for an panel discussion for a future of cloud computing event in Israel, Geva Perry, a frequent speaker on cloud computing at corporations and industry events, published his predictions on the future of cloud computing.

  • Jolt Award 2011 for Design, Planning, and Architecture Tools

    On October 26th, The Jolt Judges announced the awards for 2011 in the category “Design, Planning, and Architecture Tools”. In detail, the Jolt hall of fame now includes the products Paradigm for UML, Restructure 101, and Requirements Center 2010.

  • How Applied Psychology can help Software Engineers

    On the 1st November software engineer and author John R. Fox has published his book “Digital Work in an Analog World”. According to its subtitle “Improving Software Engineering by Applied Psychology”, the book does not consider software engineering in practice. Rather, it is focusing on the psychological aspects relevant and practices relevant for engineers.

  • Hortonworks Announces Hadoop Data Platform

    Hortonworks, a company created in June 2011 by Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital, has announced the Technical Preview Program of Data Platform based on Hadoop. The company employs many of the core Hadoop contributors and intends to provide support and training.

  • IT Projects: 400% Over-Budget and only 25% of Benefits Realized

    An alarming study by Flyvbjerg and Budzier published in the Harvard Business Review has made everyone stand-up and take notice. The coherent advice being that IT projects are much more riskier than we think.

  • SOA’s Role in the Emerging Hadoop World

    A new post by Joe McKendrick outlines Hadoop’s ability to significantly simplify enterprise SOA implementation through improved data access services build on a common enterprise data platform.

  • Why did MDE Miss the Boat?

    The activity and interest focused on programming languages seem to be reaching new highs every month. Jean Bezivin argued this week at the SPLASH conference that interest in MDE has come to a stand still. He provided his analysis to as why that happened.

  • 50 Spots left for QConSF; Google’s Dart Keynote Added

    The 5th annual QCon San Francisco is taking place just 3 weeks from now, the chance to register is quickly approaching. Registration is double last year's at this time! We only have 50 tickets left so book early to make sure you get a spot.

  • Hadoop-as-a-Service from Amazon, Cloudera, Microsoft and IBM

    Companies rely more and more on big data when making their decisions. Amazon, Cloudera, and IBM have announced their Hadoop-as-a-Service offerings, while Microsoft promises to do the same next year.

  • Practical SOA for Solution Architects

    A new WSO2 white paper entitled “Practical SOA for the Solution Architect" describes a practical approach to designing and implementing a SOA system while realizing the full SOA benefits.

  • Building Visual Studio Extensions with Roslyn

    Yesterday we talked about the Roslyn Compiler and Workspace APIs. Today we take a look at the Roslyn Service APIs and how they can be used to extend Visual Studio. The extensions we will look at today are Code Issue, Quick Fix, Code Refactoring, Completion Provider, and Outliner.

  • Microsoft Unveils its Compiler as a Service

    Early reports suggested that the Rosyln project would just be a better runtime-accessible compiler and REPL-style interpreter, but it turns out that it is much more ambitious. By opening up the entire compiler pipeline Microsoft hopes that developers will create a wide variety of tools at many levels.

  • Cassandra 1.0.0. Is Ready for the Enterprise

    Apache has announced the release of Cassandra 1.0.0, the first major milestone of the distributed column-based data store coming with data compression and several performance improvements and optimizations.

  • 'Denali' No More: SQL Server 2012 Announced, Focuses on BI and Big Data

    Microsoft announced that the next version of SQL Server, known by the codename "Denali", will be called SQL Server 2012. It will feature the big data capabilities of Apache Hadoop and Power View, a touch-based business intelligence tool.

BT