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Five Things Every Developer Should Know about Software Architecture

Given the distributed nature of the software systems we’re now building, and the distributed nature of the teams building them, it's more important than ever to understand the basics of software architecture. As a short introduction to the topic and to debunk some myths, here are five things that every software developer should know about software architecture.

Simon Brown
on Jan 08, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Dan Szuc and Jo Wong on Make Meaningful Work

Raf Gemmail speaks with UX leaders Dan Szuc and Josephine Wong about Make Meaningful Work, a humanistic framework and set of practices born from applying human-centered design to the workplace. Sitting beneath existing methodologies, it enables teams to share and understand character perspectives, in working towards producing impacts which are meaningful to them.

Rafiq Gemmail
on Jan 05, 2018
Culture & Methods

How Lean Problem Solving Increases Agile Team Productivity: a Mobile Applications Startup Example

People in IT tend to push solutions without being sure of the effects nor evaluating the results. And they lack approaches to help doers improve day-to-day job practices. We follow a mobile dev and his CTO on their Lean IT path to improve deployments of a mobile app, and increase team productivity by 15%. This example shows how lean management posture and problem-solving help agile teams.

Marc Legru Kevin Raynel
on Jan 03, 2018
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Get More Bytes for Your Buck

Lovethesales had to classify one million product data from 700 different disparate sources across a large domain. They decided to create a hierarchy of classifiers through utilizing machine learning, specifically Support Vector Machines. They learned that optimising the way in which the svms were connected together yielded vast improvements in the reuse of labeled training data.

David Bishop
on Dec 30, 2017
Development

InfoQ’s Top Software Developer Stories, Videos and Podcasts from 2017

Charles Humble compiles a list of this year’s most interesting and popular content on InfoQ and chats to QCon chair Wesley Reisz about 2017 and how the next 12 months are shaping up.

Charles Humble
on Dec 29, 2017
DevOps

How to be Confident That Your Microservices Can Still Communicate in Production with Pact and Docker

Consumer-driven contracts enable our teams at Rightmove to work independently, and be confident that their changes won’t break other services when deploying their own. It also improves communication between teams, and helps to get developers thinking about API design early on.

Harry Winser
on Dec 29, 2017
Java

Getting Started with Microservices in SpringBoot

Enterprises have learned to create software using agile processes, but we are still producing large monolithic beasts of software. If you are not already using Microservices, you are safely out of the early adopter phase of the adoption curve. This article will help you get started creating, discovering, and calling Microservices.

Victor Grazi
on Dec 28, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Corporate Startup

The book The Corporate Startup by Tendayi Viki, Dan Toma and Esther Gons explores what existing large corporations can do to establish an innovation ecosystem able to continually create new growth avenues. Instead of striving to be a startup, they should find their own way of innovating, use their assets, and learn how to create and use business models that support innovation.

Ben Linders
on Dec 27, 2017
Culture & Methods

Agile for Marketing and Communication

Agile Marketing and Communication (MarCom) bridge the IT and communication disciplines. Communication professionals started to apply agile in their projects, which has led to better collaboration and increased productivity and creativity. Professionals take on tasks outside their usual responsibilities and duties, and it's the team that decides how the work is prioritized and done.

Ben Linders
on Dec 22, 2017
Architecture & Design

Events, Flows and Long-Running Services: A Modern Approach to Workflow Automation

Recent discussions around the microservice architectural style has promoted the idea that “to effectively decouple your services you have to create an event-driven-architecture”. Although events can decrease coupling, we must avoid the mistakes of traditional SOA: centralised control should to be avoided, and workflow engines must be less painful to use and operate.

Bernd Ruecker Martin Schimak
on Dec 21, 2017
Culture & Methods

Frugal Innovation: Doing More with Less

Frugal innovation provides ways to do more and better with less. It helps us to solve problems with limited resources in a sustainable way and to address inequality and empower billions of people at the bottom of the pyramid. Agile and frugal support each other; both aim to solve the problem at hand and nothing more, getting products into the hands of the users early and learning from that use.

Ben Linders
on Dec 20, 2017
Your Top Five Challenges Moving in to the IoT Space

Those who have been involved in IoT projects have come to realize that there is a big gap between what customers need and what these vendors provide. Contributor Mikael Hakansson looks at five critical areas that require focus to ensure IoT success. These include business ownership, team skillsets, device onboarding, ability to handle change, and comprehensive testing.

Mikael Hakansson
on Dec 18, 2017