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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
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "Agile People"

Pia-Maria Thorén has written a book titled Agile People, in which she challenges the role of Human Resources in organisations, identifies where the current approaches are not working and why they need to change to support modern organisational thinking.

Shane Hastie
on Dec 17, 2017
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Approximate Queries on WSO2 Stream Processor: Use of Approximation Algorithms in an Applied Setting

In this article, we describe an example real world application of API monitoring which benefits from using approximate stream processing. We developed the application on top of WSO2 Stream Processor as Siddhi extension. Siddhi is the complex event processing library which acts as the event processing engine of WSO2 Stream Processor.

Chamod Samarajeewa Miyuru Dayarathna
on Dec 15, 2017
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2017

The eleventh annual QCon San Francisco was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1,800 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors.

Abel Avram
on Dec 14, 2017
DevOps

Q&A with Eberhard Wolff On the Book “A Practical Guide to Continuous Delivery”

Eberhard Wolff speaks with InfoQ about his work "Continuous Delivery: A Practical Guide", where we detail some of the major concepts behind successful CD adoption and the ripple-effect it can have on developer productivity and quality of service.

Dylan Raithel
on Dec 14, 2017