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Development, Java, .NET, Dynamic Languages,Cloud Computing, Mobile, Process & Practices,Architecture & Design, Operations & Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture

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Mini-book: Do Better Scrum
Certified Scrum Trainer and Coach Jim York says: Scrum is simple. Doing Scrum is hard. One more thing remains certain: you will never become better at doing Scrum (or any Agile method) without practicing. So what are you waiting for? Just go and do it! (Mini-book)

Development Latest Content
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Dianne Marsh on Language and Frameworks Used at Netflix, the Manager's Role, and Diversity in IT
Dianne Marsh talks to Charles Humble about hiring an engineer at Netflix, organising an engineering team around speed of execution, the languages and frameworks Netflix uses, and diversity in IT. (Interview) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us!

Top Development News Headlines

Raspberry Pi 2 Brings More Power, Memory and Windows Support

Java Latest Content
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Scala in Large Scale Systems
This is the first installment in a series about using Scala for large-scale data stores and analytics. Dave Hrycyszyn speaks to Andrew Jayne, senior software engineer at McLaren Applied Technologies, about the experience of building a custom high-performance data store in Scala. (Article)

"Bootiful" Applications with Spring Boot
Spring developer advocate Josh Long and Spring Boot co-lead Phillip Webb present what Spring Boot is, why it's turning heads, why you should consider it for your next application (REST, web, batch, big-data, integration, etc) and how to get started. (Presentation)

Tardis: Affordable Time-Travel Debugging in Managed Runtimes
Earl Barr, Mark Marron discuss building time-travel debuggers for managed languages, implemented with Tardis, and enabling developers to investigate what happened prior to hitting a bug. (Presentation)

Testing with Spring 4.x
Sam Brannen provides an overview of what's been deprecated, what's changed, and what's been introduced in Spring's testing support over the last two years, with real life examples and tips for best practices. Highlights include using SocketUtils to scan for free TCP and UDP server ports, best practices with TestNG, using Groovy scripts to configure an ApplicationContext for integration tests, etc. (Presentation)

Top Java News Headlines

Java's JDK Repository Now Builds Warning-Free

Infinispan Release JCache Compatible Version

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.NET Latest Content
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.NET CoreCLR Open Sourced
Continuing with its plans to open source the .NET platform, Microsoft has released the CLR and RyuJIT as part of the CoreCLR package. It is fully open source and available today on GitHub. (News)

Top .NET News Headlines

Microsoft Enhances Azure SQL Database, Active Directory and Media Services

Dynamic Languages Latest Content
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React.js in Real Life at Codecademy
Codecademy recently switched to React.js for their front-end learning environment. While many React examples are basic, author Bonnie Eisenman goes over how to use React in a large, critical environment. (Article)

Top Dynamic Languages News Headlines

DuoCode Uses Roslyn to Transpile C# into JavaScript

Next-gen JavaScript Framework "Aurelia" Brings Adaptive Databinding Engine

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DevOps ToolChain for Beginners
This eMag aims at providing an overview of an example set of tools that would constitute a typical DevOps toolchain. These are popular tools today, but you should look at them as illustrations of the kind of tasks and workflows you might need to perform in your organization as you move along a DevOps path. (eMag)

Cloud Computing Latest Content
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Virtual Roundtable: The Role of Containers in Modern Applications
JP Morgenthal recently published a controversial DevOps.com article entitled “Containers Are Designed for an Antiquated Application Architecture.” After observing a lively debate on Twitter, InfoQ reached out to some of the most influential (and opinionated!) tech leaders in the industry – including Morgenthal himself – and asked them to participate in a virtual roundtable. (Article)

Bringing Agile UX into the University Application Process
Alexander Baxevanis and Samantha Wathen discuss using an Agile approach to the porting of the UK UCAS tracking tool to the cloud: the process, design principles, lessons learned. (Presentation)

Top Cloud Computing News Headlines

CoreOS Releases Rocket and App Container Specification v0.3.1

Tumblr Releases Genesis, a Tool for Data Center Automation

VMware Launches Integrated OpenStack Distribution

Azure DocumentDB is Available in More Regions with Increased Account Limits

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Web APIs: From Start to Finish
This eMag contains a collection of articles and interviews from late 2014 with some of the leading practitioners and theorists in the Web API field. The material here takes the reader on a journey from determining the business case for APIs to a design methodology, meeting implementation challenges, and taking the long view on maintaining public APIs on the Web over time. (eMag)

Mobile Latest Content
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Facebook Enables Native App Development in JavaScript with React Native
Announced at last week’s React Conf, React Native is a version of the popular React JavaScript library targeted solely at mobile developers. On the surface React Native looks very similar to React, with JavaScript declarations of reactive user interfaces; but behind the scenes React Native interfaces are backed by platform specific native controls rather than DOM elements. (News)

Top Mobile News Headlines

JUniversal: A Microsoft Tool for Porting Android Apps to Windows Phone and iOS

Mobile Security and Team Collaboration: How to Combine It

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Process & Practices Latest Content
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Q&A with Frederic Laloux on Reinventing Organizations
In the book “Reinventing Organizations” Frederic Laloux researched 12 organizations who use fundamentally new ways to manage work and their employees. InfoQ interviewed Frederic about how evolutionary-teal organizations manage themselves, practices for start-ups, self-organizing organizations, renewing approaches for managing performance of employees and results from evolutionary-teal organizations.

Can You Scale Kanban?
When organizations are scaling agile and want to apply kanban as one of their agile methods the question can pop up if kanban can also be scaled? InfoQ interviewed Klaus Leopold about using kanban for managing a program, deploying and connecting kanban boards on team and program level, managing work in progress across the full delivery cycle and the benefits that kanban can bring. (Article)

Agile - A Courageous Choice
Olaf Lewitz invites the audience to make choices: connecting choices, artistic choices, loving choices, courageous choices. (Presentation)

#noestimates Project Planning Using Monte Carlo Simulation
Dimitar Bakardzhiev discusses planning a fixed bid project by applying the Monte Carlo simulation using collected historical data about lead time per story. (Presentation)

Groupon Engineering: Building Culture through the Experimentation Mindset
Sri Viswanath shares the ideas and program driving Groupon’s engineering culture. (Presentation) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us!

Beyond Projects - Why Projects Are Wrong and What to Do Instead
Allan Kelly examines the project model and shows why it does not match software development, outlining an alternative to the project model and what companies need to do to achieve it. (Presentation)

Transformation Priority Premise Deep Dive
Joseph Yao introduces Transformation Priority Premise (TPP) as a way to learn TDD. (Presentation)

The Four Pillars of DevOps: Agility for the Enterprise
John Shaw discusses the four pillars of DevOps: Environments, Deployment, Testing and People, based on experiences developing financial systems for governmental clients. (Presentation)

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Architecture & Design Latest Content
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Concurrency at Large-Scale: The Evolution to Reactive Microservices
Randy Shoup, CTO of Kixeye, shares the history of reactive services and visits key milestones in their evolution: async techniques at Google, real-time search at Ebay, & responsive games at Kixeye. (Presentation) The next QCon is in London, March 2-6, 2015. Join us!

NoSQL Is Dead
Eric Redmond explains the differences and commonalities amongst many kinds of databases and takes a stab at the marketing term “NoSQL.”

Distributed Creativity
Josh Valman discusses how RPD combined people, expertise, and experience from around the world to re-design the concept of flying for a multi-billion dollar airline, whilst teaching how to solve big ideas. (Presentation)

Reactive Oriented Architecture with Grails
Steve Pember discusses the tenets of the Reactive Pattern and the importance of moving away from Monolithic to Reactive architectures. He also discusses the various Groovy-friendly technologies that allow us to build distributed, micro-service based applications and covers effective communication strategies between each service. (Presentation)

Top Architecture & Design News Headlines

Immutability Changes Everything Including Microservices

Operations & Infrastructure Latest Content
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R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics – Book Review and Interview
The book "R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics" authored by Jared P. Lander covers the R programming language and how to use it for data analytics and visualizations. InfoQ spoke with Lander about the R programming language, the book, and big data analytics and visualization. (Article)

Enterprise Architecture Latest Content
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Udi Dahan on Defining Service Boundaries
Udi Dahan, an SOA consultant, delivered the presentation “Finding Service Boundaries – Illustrated in Healthcare” at NDC London 2014, providing advice on establishing the service boundaries in an SOA or microservice architecture. (News)