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How Cloud-Based Development Makes AutoScout24 More Agile
InfoQ interviewed Erik Doernenburg and Philipp Garbe from AutoScout24 about what made them decide to switch to the cloud and which benefits they expected, and how they manage computing resources using the cloud. InfoQ also asked them to give some examples showing how the cloud helps to deploy DevOps and to explain why teams are interested in working in an agile way and are eager to try new things.
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GitHub's Scientist Aims to Help Refactoring Critical Paths
GitHub has just made available Scientist 1.0, a Ruby library that will help developers refactor or rewrite their code with confidence, writes GitHub engineer Jesse Toth, and that was used at GitHub over the last few years for a number of projects. InfoQ has spoken with Toth.
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Adrian Cockcroft on Analyzing Response Time Distributions for Microservices
At the microXchg conference, held in Berlin, Adrian Cockcroft presented “Analyzing Response Time Distributions for Microservices”. Cockcroft demonstrated how the combination of his Spigo microservice architecture simulation tool and the online Guesstimate Monte Carlo method tool can be used to visualise and experimentally simulate request response times within a complicated microservice system.
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"Wait, What!? Our Microservices Have Actual Human Users?" The Importance of UI Architecture
At the microXchg conference, Stefan Tilkov presented “Wait, what? Our microservices have actual human users?”. Tilkov proposed that current microservice discussions tend to be centered around backend topics. The presentation argued that it is of paramount importance to increase focus on how to structure what is arguably the most important part of a microservice application - the UI.
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Introducing AWS CloudWatch Events
Amazon recently announced changes to the way customers can monitor their AWS resources. The service, known as CloudWatch Events, allows customers to consume a near real-time stream of events as changes to their AWS environment take place. These event changes can subsequently trigger notifications, or other actions, through the use of rules.
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Mobile Cross-platform SDK V-Play Adds Material Design, Map-based Apps and More
Mobile cross-platform SDK V-Play Apps has recently introduced support for Android Material Design, improved the creation of map-based apps, and added new styling features.
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IBM Extends its Cloud Data Analytics Services
IBM has announced four new data services: Analytics Exchange, Compose Enterprise, Graph, and Predictive Analytics. IBM’s new data services are meant to enable users to analyze their own data or get access to datasets provided by IBM. While some of the services run on Bluemix, for others the data can be deployed on other clouds, including private ones.
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Microxchg Conference Day 1 Recap
Today was the first day of the Microxchg 2016 conference in Berlin, Germany. More than 250 people from all around Europe gathered to learn and discuss about microservices, where and how to be used and their future. in this article, we examing what were the key takeaways from the first day of the conference.
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Google’s J2ObjC 1.0 Translates Java into Objective-C
J2ObjC is an open source tool created by Google to translate Java code into corrresponding Objective-C code that can be run on iOS. The idea is to reuse Java business code between Android, web and iOS. For the web the translation is done with GWT. This tool does not deal with UI code which needs to be written separately for each platform.
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Results of the InfoQ Readership Survey 2015
We present here the results for three questions included in the Readership Survey that InfoQ ran in 2015.
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myDevices Launches Cayenne, a Drag-and-Drop IoT Project Builder
Internet of Things solution provider myDevices has launched Cayenne, a drag-and-drop application for developing IoT projects for the Raspberry Pi.
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Q&A with Aleksey Shipilev on Compact Strings Optimization in OpenJDK 9
OpenJDK 9 introduces the compact strings optimization. InfoQ interviews Oracle Java performance engineer Aleksey Shipilev to understand more about this optimization and its performance impact.
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Building an Agile Organization Using Business Mapping
Dan North gave a talk about business mapping at the Scaling Agile for the Enterprise 2016 congress in Brussels. InfoQ interviewed him about the problems that he sees from a business perspective when the IT part of an organization adopts agile, and asked him what business mapping is and how it can help organizations to increase their agility.
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TypeScript 1.8 Beta Adds Integration with JavaScript, Stateless Functional Components and More
TypeScript, Microsoft’s open source superset of JavaScript, has reached 1.8 beta, bringing many new language features and tools enhancements.
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Benchmarking Netflix Dynomite with Redis on AWS
Last year, Netflix Cloud Database Engineering (CDE) team introduced Dynomite. Dynomite is a proxy layer, aiming to turn any non-distributed database into a sharded, multi-region replication aware distributed database system. Now Netflix released a benchmark using Dynomite with Redis in AWS infrastructure.