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Scaling Agile - Slice and Understand Together
This second article in the series about making scaled agile work digs into how to slice requirements. If this is done right, it will not only result in good slices, but also a common understanding of the product we’re about to build or enhance.
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How to Make the Leap: Building Cloud-Ready Applications into the Architecture
How do you take all very different kinds of applications and make them ready for cloud? This article by Pete Johnson looks at cloud-ready criteria and strategies.
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Building Reactive Systems Using Akka’s Actor Model and Domain-Driven Design
With the explosion of mobile and data-driven applications, users are demanding real-time access to everything everywhere. System resilience and responsiveness are essential business requirements. Businesses increasingly need to trade up to more flexible, "reactive" systems. To support reactive development, actor models with domain-driven design can fulfill modern resiliency requirements.
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Agile at Red Hat
This article is a story of the conversion journey from FeedHenry, a startup from Waterford, Ireland, into Red Hat. It’s also charting the journey of agile as a whole in Red Hat, as this story is being replicated across the product suite that Red Hat offers.
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Customize Your Agile Approach: Select Your Agile Approach That Fits Your Context
This is the first in a series of articles that will help you think about how you might want to customize your agile approach for your context. This article explores how to make agile approaches work for you: your work, your team, and your organization. It's about understanding the difference between iteration, flow, and cadence and when you might consider each to customize your agile approach.
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Defining Cloud Native: A Panel Discussion
What is "cloud-native", why should you care, and how can your team adopt this way of delivering software? InfoQ gathered three industry experts to debate the topic.
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Q&A on the Book Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile
The Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile explains how disciplined agile works at different levels in the organization. It provides a framework with principles and practices to help you to streamline information technology and business processes in a context-sensitive manner.
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Big Data and Big Money: The Role of Data in the Financial Sector
When we consider the 3Vs of big data— volume, velocity, and variety—it is hard to think of many sectors whose requirements fit so nicely into the guidelines at finance.
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Q&A with Elton Stoneman on Migrating Workloads and Running Docker on Windows
These are still early days for Docker on Windows but the possibilities in terms of workloads keeps growing. InfoQ spoke with Elton Stoneman, author of the book Docker on Windows, and speaker at the recent WinOps conference, to understand how to run containers on Windows and which kind of workloads are a good choice for migration.
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User Anonymity on Twitter
This article explores how it is possible to measure how many Twitter users adopted anonymous pseudonyms, the correlation between content sensitivity and user anonymity, and whether it would be possible to build automated classifiers that would detect sensitive Twitter accounts.
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Retiring Mainframe Programmers: Should I Care?
We stay up on new languages, frameworks, and architectures yet ignore the value of mainframe applications. Mainframes manage 70% of the world’s transactions yet its programmer workforce is rapidly retiring baby boomers. And millennials have no interest in mainframe careers. This article describes that state of mainframe applications, bad talks management, and then provides detailed solutions.
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The Java Evolution of Eclipse Collections
With each successive version of Java, frameworks must adapt and transform in order to stay current. This article aims to describe some of the new Java 8 features in Eclipse Collections, a high performance collections framework for Java, and looks ahead at some of the new things we’ve done to prepare for Java 9. This article will walk through these new features and changes.