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Async Streams in C# 8

Asynchronous programming is an important technique for many modern apps to improve responsiveness. C# 8 debuts Async Streams, which allows an async method return multiple values. Bassam Alugili provides an informative introduction to this new technique.

Bassam Alugili
on Sep 05, 2018
Culture & Methods

Adopting Continuous Delivery at teamplay, Siemens Healthineers

Continuous Delivery is about working in a way that keeps the system in a releasable state throughout its development. This article describes how a large software development organization at Siemens Healthineers started the transformation towards Continuous Delivery. It describes the strategy and tactics used to gradually and safely change the development process in a regulated medical domain.

Dave Farley Vladyslav Ukis
on Sep 04, 2018
Architecture & Design

Refactoring to a Deeper Model

Paul Rayner uses a case study to demonstrate how refactoring your code can lead to a deeper understanding of your domain model. Through common code refactorings, combined with the implementation of patterns, the codebase became more cohesive and easier to reason about, reducing the time to perform some common tasks from weeks or months to just hours.

Paul Rayner
on Sep 03, 2018
Cloud

The Best CLI Is the One You Don’t Have to Install

We tend to install a lot of CLI’s, and they can be tricky to configure. The Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based CLI with zero commitments or configuration on your part.

Burke Holland
on Sep 02, 2018
DevOps

Microservices in a Post-Kubernetes Era

How are microservices standing in the Kubernetes era? The microservice architecture is still the most popular architectural style for distributed systems. But Kubernetes and the cloud-native movement have redefined certain aspects of application design and development at scale.

Bilgin Ibryam
on Sep 01, 2018
Culture & Methods

Four Ways to Take Charge in Your First Agile Project

Dudharejia dives into the details of Agile, as well as the Scrum process. The overarching lesson throughout this post is how newbies can take charge in an Agile project. The post discusses the importance of meetings, identifying strengths and weaknesses, using your team to the fullest extent, and how to avoid micromanaging.

Manish Dudharejia
on Aug 31, 2018
Java

The State of Java Serialization

Java’s Serialization feature has garnered several years' worth of security exploits and zero day attacks. This article discusses the current state of the technology and what can be done, both now and in the future, to protect against serialization flaws.

Erik Costlow
on Aug 30, 2018
Architecture & Design

DDD With TLC

At the 2017 Explore DDD conference, Julie Lerman, a self-described Serial DDD Advocate, spoke about how to approach Domain-Driven Design with Tender Loving Care. InfoQ sat down with Lerman to ask about how she introduces DDD to new clients, and helps them be successful.

Thomas Betts Julie Lerman
on Aug 28, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Adaptive Space

The book Adaptive Space by Michael Arena explores what enables organizations to positively disrupt themselves and transform into responsive agile organizations. It describes four sets of connections, and five core principles, that support organizations increasing their agility.

Ben Linders Michael Arena
on Aug 27, 2018
Architecture & Design

A Critique of Resizable Hash Tables: Riak Core & Random Slicing

This fall, Wallaroo Labs will be releasing a large new feature set to our distributed data stream processing framework, Wallaroo. One of the new features requires a size-adjustable, distributed data structure to support growing & shrinking of compute clusters. It might be a good idea to use a distributed hash table to support the new feature, but what distributed hash algorithm should we choose?

Scott Lystig Fritchie
on Aug 26, 2018
Java

Build a MySQL Spring Boot App Running on WildFly on an Azure VM

How to build a demo site that runs on the WildFly application platform and connects to a MySQL database in the cloud, on Microsoft Azure. The premise seems simple, but the implementation can be tricky, and there is limited documentation on how to set something like this up.

Brian Benz
on Aug 25, 2018
Culture & Methods

The Future-Ready Organization: An Interview with Agile Manifesto Co-Author Arie Van Bennekum

Co-Author of the Agile Manifesto and Thought Leader, Arie van Bennekum is probably one of the rare co-authors of the Agile Manifesto who never lost touch with the essence of agile. To become agile, people and organizations must shift to a totally different paradigm. Arie designed an Integrated Agile Transformation Model, a proven approach to transforming organizations to new agile paradigms.

Shaaron A Alvares
on Aug 24, 2018