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Java

Understanding Classic Java Garbage Collection

Java Garbage Collection remains a topic of major interest even after 25 years. Many developers are still confused about the fundamentals of the topic, even of the most widely-used implementation (Parallel on Java 8).

Ben Evans
on May 06, 2020
Culture & Methods

Critical Metrics to Keep Delivering Software Effectively in the "New Normal" World

The health of your software delivery capability is critical in the ‘new normal’ world. This requires the ability to track a hierarchy of metrics. Our top five overall delivery health metrics include: Time to Value; Deployment Frequency; and Team Engagement. Whichever metrics you choose, it is managing to metrics that is critical in the ‘new normal’ world.

Charlie Ponsonby
on May 05, 2020
Culture & Methods

What Do AI and Test Automation Have in Common?

These days AI is a big buzzword. While it rises in popularity, the controversy surrounding it flourishes as well. We will demystify AI, and see how it is already embedded in our everyday life, and then you are going to learn about how we (the folks at Testim.io) utilised this kind of groundbreaking technology to bring test automation to the next level.

Daniel Gold
on May 04, 2020
Cloud

The Modern Edge

This article shares stories of how interesting companies are using edge computing in ways you might not expect to solve real problems and help build a better Internet.

Zack Bloom
on May 02, 2020
Java

Java Feature Spotlight: Text Blocks

Java SE 13 introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second preview, with minor changes, and is scheduled to become a permanent feature of the Java Language in Java SE 15. In this article Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle, provides a deep-dive into the topic.

Brian Goetz
on May 01, 2020
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Reinforcement Machine Learning for Effective Clinical Trials

In this article, author Dattaraj Jagdish Rao explores the reinforcement machine learning technique called Multi-armed Bandits and discusses how it can be applied to areas like website design and clinical trials.

Dattaraj Jagdish Rao
on Apr 30, 2020
Culture & Methods

The Value and Purpose of a Test Coach

Introducing business-oriented automated testing can involve a huge cultural change. For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters. In this article we hear from someone living this new role, using Domain Oriented Testing on a daily basis to ensure acceptance tests have full story coverage, and unit tests verify business behavior, not implementation.

Matt Stephens
on Apr 29, 2020
Architecture & Design

Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2020

An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2020, with a focus on fundamental architectural patterns, framework usage, and design skills.

Thomas Betts Charles Humble Daniel Bryant Jan Stenberg
on Apr 28, 2020
Culture & Methods

Ideas for Remote Retrospectives that Engage

Retrospectives have been shown to be an important tool for teams to improve their ways of working and increase collaboration. In person, retrospectives are well understood with many approaches and techniques. This article looks at how to carry the practice across when working remotely.

Shane Hastie Charlotte Hinton Colin Basterfield Gillian Hemphill Margaret Clark
on Apr 27, 2020
Web Development

Interview with Creator of Polypane, a Powerful Browser for Developers

Polypane is a powerful development web browser with many features to assist during the development of web applications and websites. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Polypane creator Kilian Valkhof to learn more about what Polypane is, the motivation behind it, the technology used, challenges in creating the product, future direction, and much more.

Dylan Schiemann Kilian Valkhof
on Apr 24, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Science of Organizational Change

In The Science of Organizational Change, Paul Gibbons challenges existing theories and tools of change management and debunks management myths. He explores going from a change management to a change-agility paradigm and provides 21st-century research on behavioral science, that affects topics such as project planning, change strategy, business-agility, and change leadership in a VUCA world.

Ben Linders Paul Gibbons
on Apr 23, 2020
.NET

Custom Response Caching Using NCache in ASP.NET Core

NCache is a cross-platform, open-source distributed caching framework from Alachisoft. It is an extremely fast distributed caching framework that is linearly scalable. This article presents a discussion on how we can work with NCache and response caching middleware in ASP.NET Core.

Joydip Kanjilal
on Apr 22, 2020