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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.

Johanna Rothman
on Oct 22, 2017
Cloud

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.

Richard Seroter
on Oct 20, 2017
Culture & Methods

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.

Ben Linders
on Oct 19, 2017
AI, ML & Data Engineering

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.

Jennifer Q. Trelewicz
on Oct 17, 2017
DevOps

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.

Manuel Pais
on Oct 13, 2017
AI, ML & Data Engineering

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.

Justin Cappos Sai Teja Peddinti Keith W Ross
on Oct 12, 2017
Culture & Methods

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.

Don Denoncourt
on Oct 11, 2017
Java

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.

Kristen O'Leary
on Oct 09, 2017
Understanding Cloud Native Infrastructure: Interview with Justin Garrison and Kris Nova

"Cloud Native Infrastructure: Patterns for Scalable Infrastructure and Applications in a Dynamic Environment" from O’Reilly Media is a collection of guidance about building and managing modern infrastructure. InfoQ reached out to the authors to learn more about what they’re proposing, and how you can act upon it.

Richard Seroter
on Oct 08, 2017
Culture & Methods

Offshoring Agile When You Are a Startup

Working with an offshore partner becomes faster and cheaper as communication technologies continue to improve. It is possible to achieve agility with an offshore team as long as you understand the limitations. Although some of the principles from the agile manifesto are difficult to reconcile with offshoring, they can still be used as guidance to work effectively together.

Ben Linders
on Oct 03, 2017
.NET

Detecting and Analyzing Redundant Code

As software development projects grow in scope, it is very easy for them to add redundant layers of code. By analyzing several large open source projects on GitHub, the author presents his findings as to the amount of redundant code each project has and shares some recommendations as to how all projects can improve their own code management.

Zebedee Mason
on Oct 02, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on "The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide"

The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide answers questions that new and experienced developers often have in advancing their careers. Topics covered vary from learning technical skills, getting a job, and dealing with managers, to doing side projects or starting your own company.

Ben Linders
on Oct 01, 2017