JavaScript Frameworks, Pointer Events, Swift on .NET and Android, HTTP/2, Facebook Stetho, A/B Experiments, Microservices

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Kwonki, in this issue, March 3, 2015 Research, Development, Java, .NET, Dynamic Languages, Cloud Computing, Mobile, Process & Practices, Architecture & Design, Operations & Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture SPONSOR AD FREE Book - Graph Databases, by O'Reilly Get this definitive new guide to graph databases. Written by three leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! Research Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/research/ JavaScript Frameworks in the Real World JavaScript frameworks can be an essential tool for advanced JavaScript programming. While one could do everything needed purely with JavaScript code without the need of a framework, both they and JavaScript libraries provide some very useful foundations to build on. (Research) Article Series: Next Generation HTML5 and JavaScript In this (post)HTML5 series, we go beyond buzzwords and get practical insights from experts about what has actually worked for them. We also talk about technologies that go a step further, and define the future of how the standards and web development will evolve. (Article Series) Development Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/development Categories for the Working Programmer Jeremy Gibbons explains categories, focusing on them as an organizing principle helpful in managing generic libraries. (Presentation) SQL Strikes Back! Recent Trends in Data Persistence and Analysis Dean Wampler takes a look at SQL’s resurgence and specific example technologies, including: NewSQL, Hybrid SQL, SQL abstractions on top of file-based data, SQL as a functional programming language. (Presentation) Top Development News Headlines Google Releases gRPC, an HTTP/2 RPC Framework for Microservices The Hack Language Gets an Official Specification Spring Forward Festival Celebrates Women in the Digital Industry Pointer Events Reaches W3C Final Stage, “Recommendation” SPONSOR AD 5 Unsung Tools of DevOps - Jonathon Thurman shares his five favorite DevOps tools which have been around a long time. They may not be flashy but they’re time tested and just work. See which tools make the cut and why. Download Now. Java Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/java The Quest for the Holy Integration Test Ken Krueger and Rob Winch provide an overview of testing Spring Web applications. (Presentation) Fast Conservative Garbage Collection Rifat Shahriyar, Steve Blackburn and Kathryn McKinley show that conservative garbage collectors using Immix can be as performant as, and sometimes even faster than, generational GCs. (Presentation) .NET Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/dotnet Silver Brings Apple's Swift Language to .NET and Android RemObjects Silver is a “free implementation of Apple’s Swift programming language” aimed at making it possible to natively compile Swift code on the .NET, Java, and Android platforms in addition to Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. InfoQ has spoken with marc hoffman (sic), chief architect at RemObjects. (News) Top .NET News Headlines Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 Released FEATURED eMag 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) Dynamic Languages Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/dynamic_languages Q&A with Matthew Carver on The Responsive Web Responsive web design is an important part of the modern web and a must-have skill for web developers. The Responsive Web by Matt Carver provides an introduction and suggestions on how to get started. (Article) Creating Modular Test Driven SPAs with Spring and AngularJS Gunnar Hillert provides an overview of the current landscape and illustrates the choices the Spring XD team has made for its user interface. He covers frameworks such as AngularJS, Bootstrap, RequireJS; tools like Bower, Grunt, Gulp; and also talks about testing using Karma and Protractor. (Presentation) Top Dynamic Languages News Headlines jQuery Plugin Registry Future Unclear HTTP/2 Specifications Approved for Publication SPONSOR AD App. Release & Deployment For Dummies This eBook defines the basics of application release and deployment, and provides best practices for implementation with resources for a deeper dive. Download Now. Cloud Computing Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/cloud-computing Simplify Cloud Applications using Spring Cloud Scott Frederick and Ramnivas Laddad introduce the Spring Cloud project, show how you can simplify configuring applications for cloud deployment, discuss its extensibility mechanism, and put it to good use by showing practical examples from the field. (Presentation) Spring Your Apps into the Cloud with a PaaS Grant Shipley deploys an application to the cloud and then turns up the heat by leveraging the right mix of elasticity and auto-scaling. (Presentation) Top Cloud Computing News Headlines Docker Release Initial Versions of Machine, Swarm and Compose Tools FEATURED eMag 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 http://www.infoq.com/mobile The Pursuit of Tappiness – a Case Study in Making Tablet Friendly Websites Neil Turner discusses how TUI made two websites tablet friendly, what it means to optimize for tablets, how needed improvements were identified and how to ensure that future designs are tablet friendly. (Presentation) Top Mobile News Headlines Facebook Stetho: Debugging Any Android App with Chrome DevTools How to Make Sure an App Works with Android for Work Process & Practices Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/process-practices Revisiting XP: be a Thoughtful Programmer by Exercising More Collective Ownership Frequently developers cause and face frustration, often due to a lack of consideration for those who come after them. This article explores the approach of programming more thoughtfully by revisiting one of the most simple (yet often misunderstood) XP rules: collective ownership. (Article) James Grenning on Technical Excellence At the recent Agile Singapore conference James Greening presented two technically focused talks - one on the importance of technical excellence and the other teaching test driven development. He spoke to InfoQ about the importance of strong technical practices to enable true agility in software development. (Article) Linda Rising & Richard Sheridan on Creating a Culture of Joy - Part 2 At the recent Agile Singapore conference Richard Sheridan and Linda Rising discussed what it means to have an agile mindset and what it takes to design an organisation from scratch which has a culture of joy in work. The second article looks at the technical and work practices used at Menlo Innovations and why they are effective. (Article) Visual Portfolio Management: Collaboratively Aligning Your Company To exploit agile advantages like speed, flexibility, and fast feedback, companies need to work on the right things. The three-horizons model explains how companies need to work to ensure sustainable growth. Visual portfolio management can integrate the different types of work into a coherent system. (Article) Too Big to Fail: Running A/B Experiments When You're Betting the Bank Andrea Burbank discusses the risks, benefits, and lessons from running a single huge experiment with hundreds of moving parts, and with long-term engagement as the metric of success. (Presentation) The next QCon is in New York, June 8-12, 2015. Join us! Integrating UX – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Ellie Kenwood discusses some of the challenges of integrating user experience into an Agile delivery model, including a case study. (Presentation) You Can't be Great without Technical Excellence James Grenning takes a look at why the technical practices of TDD, refactoring, continuous design, clean code and automated testing can help people and their organization be great. (Presentation) Kanban: A Story of Change David Daly presents why his team chose Kanban, how it adopted it, the benefits of using Kanban, tips for implementing Kanban and pitfalls to avoid. (Presentation) Introducing Agility to Non-Agile Organizations Jose Casal discusses using Kanban to introduce Agile principles and practices in non-Agile organizations, how Agility can help businesses improve their results and business performance metrics. (Presentation) Epic Estimation - Agile or High Risk Guesswork? Ian Hawkins discusses the value in epic estimation, how to handle business expectations, what influences epic estimation and what makes it effective. (Presentation) Four Things we Need to Know about Teams Lachlan Heasman discusses the difference between groups and teams, Poole’s model of team development, the social motivational factors within teams, and the complexity leadership model for teams. (Presentation) Top Process & Practices News Headlines Limitations of the Five Whys Technique in Agile Retrospectives ThoughtWorks Announces Improved Mingle Build Times Mark Lines talks about Disciplined Agile Delivery Establishing Self-Organized Agile Teams Gartner and Software Advice examine Agile Lifecycle Management Tools Architecture & Design Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/architecture-design Mike Long on Building Software for the Long Term Mike Long explains how to build software for the long term, software maintenance, and how some software survives. Also a thought experiment - how would you build software that lasts for 10,000 years? (Interview) Scalable Microservices at Netflix. Challenges and Tools of the Trade Sudhir Tonse discusses the robust interprocess communications (IPC) framework that Netflix built (Ribbon). (Presentation) The next QCon is in New York, June 8-12, 2015. Join us! Keep Things Simple David Tanzer and Oliver Zymanski explain with examples how to apply the rules and principles of object-oriented software design to create simple architectural designs. (Presentation) How Can We Use Our Creative Power and Technological Opportunity to Address the Challenges of the 21st Century? Gyorgyi Galik discusses our urban future and explores new possibilities to create projects and materials that change the environmental effects of art and design practices. (Presentation) Not Just Layers! What Can Pipelines and Events Do for You? Ian Cooper takes a look at two architectural patterns: pipelines for dealing with streams of data effectively, and events which provide significant advantages for loose coupling. (Presentation) Scalability Lessons from eBay, Google, and Real-time Games Randy Shoup tells war stories from Google and eBay focusing on how to scale code, infrastructure, performance, and operations, along with hard-won lessons learned in scaling them. (Presentation) Collaborative User Research - Ways to Involve Stakeholders in User Research Revathi Nathaniel explains the benefits of collaboration during the various stages of conducting user research (from conception to data analysis) and simple methods to involve stakeholders. (Presentation) Top Architecture & Design News Headlines Characteristics of Microservices, Applications and Systems Behaviour-Driven Development Combined with Domain-Driven Design Operations & Infrastructure Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/operations-infrastructure Containerization Is More than the New Virtualization Jérôme Petazzoni borrows from his experience at Docker Inc. to explain live applications running in Docker, including reading logs, remote access, and troubleshooting tips. (Presentation) The next QCon is in New York, June 8-12, 2015. Join us! Real-world Docker: Past, Present, and Future Jeff Lindsay talks about the history and future of Docker, and shares some of his cutting-edge tooling for deploying systems with Docker. (Presentation) The next QCon is in New York, June 8-12, 2015. Join us! Top Operations & Infrastructure News Headlines Mirantis Partners with Google to Integrate Kubernetes and OpenStack Experiences from Continuous Testing at Siemens Healthcare SPONSOR AD Top 10 Enterprise NoSQL Use Cases - NoSQL adoption has moved beyond innovators to mainstream “early adopters” such as AOL, PayPal, Tesco, and others. Learn - through real-world examples - about the key factors driving NoSQL adoption today. Download Now. Enterprise Architecture Latest Content http://www.infoq.com/enterprise-architect Employing Enterprise Architecture for Applications Assurance In this article Walter Houser discuss how enterprise, software, and security architects can improve software assurance by using the enterprise architecture to promulgate the software security controls. They also talk about other security model components like threat modeling, attack trees, secure design patterns, and misuse cases. (Article) Top Enterprise Architecture News Headlines Google Open Sources MapReduce Framework for C to Run Native Code in Hadoop SPONSOR AD Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 April 13-16, 2015, Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara Sessions delivered by top MySQL practitioners Oracle, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter Learn from MySQL experts