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Architecture & Design

Building Apps Leveraging Municipal Open Data and Low Code Solutions

Municipal governments produce and commission large amounts of data and information every day. This article demonstrates how Oracle Application Express (APEX) -- a low code, cloud-based development tool -- can be used in combination with the Socrata Open Data API (SODA) to build a simple reporting web application that includes a report and a chart based on the NYC 311 service request open data.

Marc Sewtz
on May 03, 2018
Culture & Methods

A Quick Guide to Implementing ATDD

Collaboration is one of the core values of Agile Methodology. That being said, what happens when you notice lack of collaboration between developers, testers and business-minded individuals in agile teams? This article provides a quick guide to implementing Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) in your projects to mitigate problems due to lack of collaboration.

Raj Subrameyer
on May 02, 2018
Architecture & Design

Guide to Digital Transformation - Part 2

This article introduces a new framework for translating a digital business ambition into imaginable digital strategies, that can be priced and modeled for impact analysis and economic value creation .

Philippe Assouline
on May 01, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Lost and Founder

The book Lost and Founder contains startup stories from Rand Fishkin. In the book he describes the ups and downs from starting and managing a company, and shares the lessons that he learned. InfoQ interviewed him about being transparent, minimum viable products and pivoting, raising capital and funding a tech startup, and asked him what he would do differently when starting another company.

Ben Linders
on Apr 29, 2018
.NET

Azure and .NET Core Are Beautiful Together

ASP.NET Core provides developers a way to develop modern web applications in the environment of their choosing (Linux, macOSX, and Windows). Microsoft Azure gives developers full power to host those web applications in anything from a full VM to a Docker container to Azure's App Service which simplifies management of the host environment. This lets developers focus on code and not servers.

Eric Boyd
on Apr 29, 2018
Development

Digital Transformation in Oil and Gas

The traditional Oil and Gas Industry is being transformed by a new wave of digital disruptive technologies. To remain profitable, oil and gas companies must consider how to gain operational efficiencies through improved use of technology, such as cloud platforms, and process, such as the adoption of agile methodologies. This article explores challenges within implementing these technologies

Rekha Kodali Md Tahir
on Apr 28, 2018
DevOps

Monitoring SRE's Golden Signals

Golden signals are increasingly popular these days due to the rise of SRE. This article outlines what golden signals are, and how to monitor and use them in the context of various common services.

Steve Mushero
on Apr 27, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Kanban Maturity Model: Evolving Fit-for-Purpose Organizations

The book Kanban Maturity Model by David Anderson and Teodora Bozheva provides a model that organizations can use to assess their maturity and define a roadmap to improve business agility using Kanban practices and values. It's a body of knowledge for coaches and organizations on sustainable change, cultures of continuous improvement, unity around a shared purpose, and improved business outcome.

Ben Linders
on Apr 26, 2018
Architecture & Design

Guide to Digital Transformation. Define, Price, and Plan a Digital Transformation (Part 1)

Realizing the value of a great digital business vision traditionally required the arduous exercise of building the proper operational, technology, and human capabilities. This article introduces a framework for easily translating a digital business ambition into imaginable digital strategies, that can then be priced and architecturally modeled for impact analysis and economic value creation.

Philippe Assouline
on Apr 24, 2018
Java

Get Ready for Cloud Native, Service-Meshed Java Enterprise

Java EE can be easily combined with Cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and Istio to produce a modern service-driven application.

Sebastian Daschner
on Apr 22, 2018
Culture & Methods

Culture and Diversity - Why They Belong Together in Every Tech Organization

Culture and diversity can help a company’s bottom line, so it’s not surprising that organizations and their executive boards are focusing on ways to encourage inclusion. This article will look at specific benefits of diversity, and ways to encourage inclusion, essentially by allowing multiple voices to share in the story of the company.

Manny Segarra III Susan McIntosh
on Apr 21, 2018
Culture & Methods

Engineering Culture Revived: The Key to Digital Transformation

Teams can create their environment for sustainable development to enable innovative insights into what and how to deliver. Team managers must anticipate the need for continuous improvement and renewal, or else face the interference of a ’top-down’ driven ‘digital transformation’ that frustrates software engineering practice. It’s time for teams to reclaim the practice of software engineering.

Ben Linders
on Apr 20, 2018