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AI, ML & Data Engineering

Analysis and Mitigation of NoSQL Injections

NoSQL data storage systems lack the security measures and awareness that are required for data protection. Because code analysis alone is insufficient to prevent attacks in today's typical large-scale deployment, certain mitigations should be done throughout the entire software life cycle.

Anton Puzanov Aviv Ron Alexandra-Shulman-Peleg
on Jan 18, 2017
Culture & Methods

What Does "Being Digital" Actually Mean?

Digital transformation is a key aim of many organisations these days, with varying levels of success. This is often due to a lack of understanding about what being digital really means. Being Digital is the re-imagining of business processes to be by default a fully online, fully automated process from end user interaction to back office processing, with no need for human intervention.

Reda Hmeid
on Jan 17, 2017
Web Development

Improve Your Node.js App Throughput One Micro-optimization at a Time

To improve the performance of a Node.js application that involves IO, you need to understand how your CPU cycles are spent and what is preventing higher degrees of parallelism in your application. In this article, Jorge Bay shares his insights on areas that cause throughput degradation and tips on how to boost performance.

Jorge Bay
on Jan 16, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on The Antifragility Edge: Antifragility in Practice

In the book The Antifragility Edge, Sinan Si Alhir shows how antifragility has been applied to help organizations evolve and thrive. He provides examples of how antifragility can be used beyond agility on an individual, collective (team and community) and enterprise level, and explores a roadmap for businesses to achieve greater antifragility.

Ben Linders
on Jan 14, 2017
Architecture & Design

Developing Transactional Microservices Using Aggregates, Event Sourcing and CQRS - Part 2

This article concludes the description of a way to develop microservices using Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing and Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS). The practical considerations and benefits of this approach are compared with other options.

Chris Richardson
on Jan 13, 2017
DevOps

Q&A on Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise

The book Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise by Gary Gruver provides a DevOps based approach for continuously improving development and delivery processes in large organizations. It contains suggestions that can be used to optimize the deployment pipeline, release code frequently, and deliver to customers.

Ben Linders
on Jan 12, 2017
Culture & Methods

Adding Purpose to Scrum with Holacracy

Organisations passionately working with Scrum are still missing a key ingredient: their organizational governance got stuck in the last century. Holacracy can be a complete replacement for the traditional management hierarchy and can significantly increase motivation and productivity.

Ben Linders
on Jan 09, 2017
DevOps

Chaos Engineering

Modern software-based services are implemented as distributed systems with complex behavior and failure modes. Many large tech organizations are using experimentation to verify such systems' reliability. Netflix engineers call this approach chaos engineering. They've determined several principles underlying it and have used it to run experiments. This article is part of a theme issue on DevOps.

Luke Kosewski Ali Basiri Lorin Hochstein Ruud de Rooij Justin Reynolds Niosha Behnam Casey Rosenthal
on Jan 08, 2017
.NET

Interview with Entity Modelling Tool Creator, Frans Bouma

Our first .NET interview of the year is with Frans Bouma of the entity modeling tool LLBLGen Pro. This tool has been around for almost as long as .NET itself, but being a commercial product it isn’t as well-known as the free alternatives.

Jonathan Allen
on Jan 06, 2017
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition Book Review and Interview

Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition book authored by Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt covers the Cassandra NoSQL database version 3.0. Authors discuss several different important topics related to this popular database, including data modeling and Cassandra architecture. InfoQ spoke with Jeff Carpenter about the book and Cassandra database current features and future roadmap.

Srini Penchikala
on Jan 05, 2017
DevOps

Interview with Wesley Coelho on Challenges in DevOps

At the Agile 2016 Conference InfoQ spoke to Wesley Coelho, Senior Director of Business Development for Tasktop, about the communication challenges inherent in DevOps and how to overcome them; how DevOps and agile expose organisational silos and waterfall communications flows that need to become adaptive and automated.

Shane Hastie
on Jan 04, 2017
Culture & Methods

How Difficult Can It Be to Integrate Software Development Tools? The Hard Truth

Integrating tools used in software development and delivery is very hard. Getting endpoints to inter-operate is not a purely technical challenge, it’s more of a business problem. While there are a few choices in selecting the technical integration infrastructure (integration via APIs or at the database layer), the real challenges have more to do with friction caused by the dissimilarities.

Betty Zakheim
on Jan 02, 2017