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Stop Measuring Turn Around Time

Are you patting yourself on the back for remarkable turn around times while simultaneously neglecting your customers? It's tempting to think that timeliness matters when in fact it rarely does. Stop measuring turn around time and start learning what matters to customers.

Wes Higbee
on Aug 04, 2016
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Virtual Panel: Current State of NoSQL Databases

NoSQL databases have been around for several years now and have become a choice of data storage for managing semi-structured and unstructured data. These databases offer lot of advantages in terms of linear scalability and better performance for both data writes and reads. InfoQ spoke with four panelists to get different perspectives on the current state of NoSQL databases.

Srini Penchikala
on Aug 02, 2016
Architecture & Design

The InfoQ Podcast: Shuman Ghosemajumder on Security and Cyber-Crime

In this week's podcast, professor Barry Burd talks to Shuman Ghosemajumder VP of product management at Shape Security on Security and Cyber-Crime at QCon New York 2016.

Barry Burd
on Aug 01, 2016
Mobile

Iterative Prototyping in the Mobile App Development Process

Mobile app development adopted an iterative, rapid development process and prototypes have a role to play in this agile approach, enabling developers to build, test, iterate, re-test and re-build rapidly and at lower cost (not to mention allowing all stakeholders in the process early on). This article guides through the essential steps of mobile app prototyping.

Cassandra Naji
on Aug 01, 2016
Java

Working with Multiple Databases in Spring

Accessing multiple databases in enterprise applications can be a challenge. With Spring it is easy enough to define a common data source, but once we introduce multiple data sources things get tricky. This article demos a technique for accessing multiple databases in Spring Boot applications easily and with minimum configuration.

Aaron Jacobson
on Jul 30, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Jason Fox on How to Lead a Quest

In the book How to Lead a Quest Jason Fox explores what can be done to develop insights for strategic decisions and innovation, and for driving progress and delivering value. The book provides approaches and rituals for asking deeper, bigger questions and slow, thorough thinking, creating options and designing experiments for dealing with complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty.

Ben Linders
on Jul 29, 2016
Culture & Methods

Growing Agile… Not Scaling!

What makes an agile team successful is not the “process” nor the “tools” but rather the way people develop an effective level of interaction with each other. Growing agile means both focusing on culture, and on co-evolution of practices and tools.

Dhaval Panchal Andrea Tomasini
on Jul 27, 2016
DevOps

Book Review and Excerpt: Infrastructure as Code

In this article we review the book Infrastructure as Code - Managing Servers in the Cloud written by Kief Morris, who is leading Continuous Delivery and DevOps at ThoughtWorks Europe. In over 300 pages, Morris lays down the foundation for Infrastructure as Code and outlines the main patterns and practices recommended for building it.

Abel Avram
on Jul 25, 2016
DevOps

How to Deal with COTS Products in a DevOps World

Mirco Hering explains why we shouldn't leave COTS products (and the people working on them) left behind in a DevOps world. With creative solutions we can apply good practices from custom software. This leads to a significant effort reduction in the long term.

Mirco Hering
on Jul 24, 2016
Cloud

Containers Live Migration: Behind the Scenes

This article addresses a topic that is not fully covered in current IT world: live migration of containers, how it works behind the scenes, and what problems it solves. The demand for this technology is growing as it unlocks new possibilities by giving more freedom in application lifecycle management.

Ruslan Synytsky
on Jul 22, 2016
Web Development

Intro to knysa: Async-Await Style PhantomJS Scripting

Typical PhantomJS test frameworks suffer from callback hell and other tricks that reduce the clarity of how the program flows. Bo Zou created knysa which uses async-await style programming to eliminate these callbacks. Additionally, there's no need to resort to currying and common try-catch-fail constructs are used to maintain a sane path through the code.

Bo Zou
on Jul 21, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Jurgen Appelo on Managing for Happiness

The book Managing for Happiness by Jurgen Appelo provides practices, games and tools to manage organizations and make work fun. It contains tips and suggestions for applying the practices to achieve organizational greatness and maximize learning in organizations.

Ben Linders
on Jul 20, 2016