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DevOps

Q&A with Connon MacRae on DevOps Adoption and Operational Models at Ticketmaster

Connon MacRae from Ticketmaster on challenges and successes adopting DevOps. Also how operations look like in a global, multi-time zone, 24/7 availability org with 14 different ticketing products.

Manuel Pais
on Nov 10, 2017
Development

Key Steps to Building and Managing an Effective API Marketplace

Across industries, companies are now looking for ways to shape their digital businesses by extending their services through external APIs. To reap the benefits of an API program, however, organizations need to move beyond basic API management to creating an API marketplace, a specialized type of platform business model that focuses on connecting producers and consumers.

Mifan Careem
on Nov 09, 2017
DevOps

Practical Monitoring: Book Review and Q&A with Mike Julian

Mike Julian has recently published Practical Monitoring with O’Reilly, which aims to provide readers with a foundational introduction to the topic of monitoring, as well as practical guidelines on how to monitor service-based applications and cloud infrastrastructure. InfoQ recently sat down with Julian and discussed the topic of monitoring.

Daniel Bryant
on Nov 07, 2017
Culture & Methods

Culture: a Farming Tale

Culture and diversity are major factors for performance of a company, and influence its long-term success. Impacts include hiring practices, career development and direction, productivity, creativity, communication, and results. This discussion identifies cultural elements and their influence on behavior and production, and how diversity augments performance and company dynamics.

Manny Segarra III Susan McIntosh
on Nov 07, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book What Drives Quality

Quality is a critical aspect of all software products, irrespective of the domain the product is used in and what approach is taken to building it. Ben Linders has released a new book titled "What Drives Quality" in which he provides concrete examples and actionable advice to help identify and improve the quality of software products.

Shane Hastie
on Nov 06, 2017
Architecture & Design

Virtual Panel: Microservices Interaction and Governance Model - Orchestration v Choreography

The recent trend in application architectures is to transition from monolithic applications to a microservices model. This transition without a good service interaction model will most likely result in chaos and a service landscape that's hard to govern and maintain. InfoQ spoke with domain experts on this topic and compiled their responses in this virtual panel article

Chris Richardson Daniel Bryant Srini Penchikala Glenn Engstrand Josh Long Alex Silva
on Nov 05, 2017
Cloud

What Is "Cloud-Native" Data and Why Does It Matter?

We know what "cloud-native apps" are, but what about the data services they depend on? In this article, we look at ten characteristics of cloud-native data and the implications of each.

Richard Seroter
on Nov 02, 2017
Culture & Methods

Customize Your Agile Approach: Start with Results You Want

This is the second 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 is about the data teams might collect and use—working product and other measures—that you might want to share with your managers and stakeholders.

Johanna Rothman
on Nov 01, 2017
Culture & Methods

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.

Ole Jepsen
on Oct 29, 2017
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.

Pete Johnson
on Oct 27, 2017
Java

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.

Markus Eisele Hugh McKee
on Oct 25, 2017
Culture & Methods

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.

Brendan O’Farrell Leigh Griffin
on Oct 23, 2017