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 It is ironic, but perhaps not unexpected, that many organizations who want the benefits of using an Agile approach to deliver software use a waterfall approach to adopting Agile practices: they form plans, they set milestones, and they measure progress by how many teams they have engag...May. 22, 2017 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,371 |
 In the hybrid IT era, complexity is the name of the game. In fact, according to the recent SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2017, IT professionals report the number one challenge of hybrid IT is increased infrastructure complexity. Accelerating complexity is just one challenge in how hybrid...May. 13, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,088 |
 Preparing for an interview? Want to just revisit Java SE 7 features? Trying to recollect or revise a Java SE programming construct? Let me take you back in time to what was introduced first in Java SE 7? Join me for this tutorial series on Java as we all eagerly await the official rele...May. 7, 2017 05:12 PM EDT Reads: 855 |
 It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2017. But with the new year comes new challenges, new opportunities—and, of course—new software projects. One of the most important questions beginner, intermediate, and advanced coders all have to answer before they begin their next project is wh...Mar. 28, 2017 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,692 |
 Staying current in the programming field can sometimes make you feel like the Red Queen in “Alice Through the Looking-Glass.” She said, “It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
You’...Mar. 5, 2017 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,058 |
 In September 2014, Apple made encryption default with the introduction of the iPhone 6. Then, in February 2016, a Los Angeles judge issued an order to Apple to help break into the encrypted iPhone belonging to a terrorist involved in a mass shooting. Apple had used some of the stronges...Feb. 28, 2017 02:30 AM EST Reads: 3,989 |
 We developed the Big Data Business Model Maturity Index to help organizations measure how effective they were at leveraging data and analytics to power their business models (see Figure 1).
What we hadn’t done until now, though, was to translate this index into a set of recommendation...Feb. 2, 2017 05:00 PM EST Reads: 4,958 |
 Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures has been talking a lot about the blockchain recently, so I decided to learn more about it. I read the Marketing the Blockchain e-book, watched The Grand Vision of a Crypto-Tech Economy video and the video keynote of Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne at th...Jan. 14, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,946 |
 For a long time, Bill Gates and in fact the entire leadership team at Microsoft were vehemently against the open source community. Steve Ballmer had once called Linux “a malignant cancer” in reference to Linux allegedly violating nearly 235 patents that Microsoft owned. Even post-retir...Dec. 26, 2016 12:00 AM EST Reads: 1,792 |
 What is inner source? I spoke about it during my webinar on Tuesday, Nov. 8, but here's a review.
At its most fundamental level, inner source is about replicating successful work practices of the open-source world to commercial software projects.
There are numerous examples of open s...Nov. 24, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,909 |
 Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are u...Oct. 14, 2016 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,890 |
 In the era of microservices and cloud-native applications, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is going through a major transformation. The combination of containers and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) is enabling rapid deployment of software like never before. And thou...Sep. 14, 2016 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,953 |
 Thomas Bitman of Gartner wrote a blog post last year about why OpenStack projects fail. In that article, he outlined three particular metrics which together cause 60% of OpenStack projects to fall short of expectations:
Wrong people (31% of failures): a successful cloud needs commitme...Aug. 31, 2016 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,761 |
 The speed at which data is generated, consumed, processed, and analyzed is increasing at an unbelievably rapid pace. Social media, the Internet of Things, ad tech, and gaming verticals are struggling to deal with the disproportionate size of data sets. These industries demand data proc...Aug. 8, 2016 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,683 |
 After surveying nearly 600 IT professionals for our latest Performance & Monitoring research guide, we found some very interesting takeaways and data points. Here is a breakdown of the demographics of those who responded:
The top three industries in which the survey takers work are So...Jun. 29, 2016 04:55 PM EDT Reads: 1,960 |
 A BriefingsDirect expert panel discussion examines the value and direction of The Open Group IT4IT initiative, a new reference architecture for managing IT as a business.
IT4IT was a hot topic at The Open Group San Francisco 2016 conference in January, and the enterprise architect and...May. 1, 2016 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,264 |
 In the digital arena, it’s impossible to avoid Dion Hinchcliffe. Perhaps you’ve seen one of his numerous keynotes or joined one of his workshops. Maybe you’ve read one of his books, Web 2.0 Architectures (with coauthors James Governor and Duane Nickull) or Social Business By Design (Pe...Apr. 30, 2016 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,771 |
 A BriefingsDirect expert panel discussion examines the illustrious 20-year history of the UNIX operating system environment as an industry-wide and global standard success story.
It's not often that you reach a multi-decade anniversary in information technology, especially where the t...Apr. 21, 2016 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,930 |
 To paraphrase Kent Beck: software delivers no value apart from runtime. Ideas take physical form in hardware, virtualized only part of the way down, and someone other than the developers makes the ideas manifest. So then: ops folks are the crop’s caretakers; developers design the seeds...Apr. 18, 2016 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,436 |
 Over the past year, Microsoft has been introducing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) as the preferred way to provision and manage resources in its Azure cloud. ARM is the successor to the original Service Management model, also known as “Classic.”[1] While Classic will continue to be suppor...Mar. 27, 2016 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,255 |
 DevOps Summit at Cloud Expo 2014 Silicon Valley was a terrific event for us. The Qubell booth was crowded on all three days. We ran demos every 30 minutes with folks lining up to get a seat and usually standing around. It was great to meet and talk to over 500 people! My keynote was we...Mar. 27, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,368 |
 Our guest on the podcast this week is Preeti Somal, VP of Engineering at Yahoo. We discuss the cloud challenges that come with supporting over a billion consumers per day at Yahoo. One way the Yahoo team simplifies this is through automation and smarter monitoring. Yahoo also leverages...Mar. 22, 2016 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,816 |
 Keeping pace with advancements in software delivery processes and tooling is taxing even for the most proficient organizations. Point tools, platforms, open source and the increasing adoption of private and public cloud services requires strong engineering rigor – all in the face of de...Mar. 19, 2016 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,988 |
 Many years ago, I wrote a blog that aimed to help organizations evaluate open source projects in terms of enterprise suitability. That blog was lost when the employer took the publication off-line, and my Google-fu has been unable to recover a copy (if you happen to have it, ping me, I...Mar. 18, 2016 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,146 |
 Researchers at Binghamton University recently became the first to create an open source graphics processor unit (GPU). The GPU they created, called Nyami, is appropriate for general purposes as well as graphics-specific work.
Nyami is significant in the research, computing and open ...Mar. 13, 2016 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,837 |
 Those of us who have been in IT since the early 90’s are all guilty of training our internal business partners to ask us for things that they don’t really want. We have trained them to ask us for reports. It started with the best of intentions – giving the business users information fr...Mar. 4, 2016 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,800 |
 In 1999, a man named Eric S. Raymond published a book called, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
In this book, he introduced a pithy phrase, "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow," that he named Linus' Law after Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
Raymond was calling out a dichotomy th...Mar. 3, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,009 |
 Recently, Forbes contributing writer and enterprise software, application development, and data management expert Adrian Bridgwater discussed how important it is to understand what freedom really means in the open source world. In open source, the word “free” refers to the liberty that...Mar. 2, 2016 03:15 PM EST Reads: 3,093 |
 Enterprises are finally realizing that digital transformation must be end-to-end if they want to remain competitive in today’s software-driven, customer-focused world – but virtually every large organization has a massive boat anchor dragging them down – slow IT.
Legacy technology woe...Feb. 25, 2016 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,266 |
 I attended a HIVE-sponsored Meetup yesterday evening titled, “Rocking the database world with RocksDB”. Since I had never heard of RocksDB, I was curious to learn how it is rocking the database world.
Facebook built this key value store storage layer originally to use for MySQL (ins...Feb. 14, 2016 05:00 PM EST Reads: 2,066 |
 Since launching SwaggerHub in 2015, we've received a ton of great feedback from users about how we can improve the platform to help teams collaborate on and coordinate more effectively across the workflow of the API cycle.
To kick off 2016, we are excited to announce a few significant...Feb. 4, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,426 |
 Most of the Java developers I know don’t like JavaScript. Initially. They would give you different reasons why, but the real one is simple: too much to learn to make it work. For many Java developers creating the front end of a Web application in JavaScript is a chore to write and a bu...Feb. 3, 2016 09:45 PM EST Reads: 5,505 |
 Ten short years ago, Apache Hadoop was just a small project deployed on a few machines at Yahoo and within a few years, it had truly become the backbone of Yahoo’s data infrastructure. Additionally, the current Apache Hadoop market is forecasted to surpass $16 billion by 2020.
This mi...Jan. 31, 2016 11:30 AM EST Reads: 4,699 |
 Open source software – software freely shared with the world at large – is an old idea, dating back to the 1980s when Richard Stillman started preaching the gospel calling it free software. Then Linus Torvalds started working on Linux in the early 1990s. Today, Linux runs our lives. Th...Jan. 16, 2016 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,783 |
 Redis is not only the fastest database, but it has become the most popular among the new wave of applications running in containers. Redis speeds up just about every data interaction between your users or operational systems.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Dave Nielsen, Developer...Jan. 1, 2016 10:15 PM EST Reads: 5,283 |
 One cloud does not fit all organizations.
That's true whether it is a public or private cloud. A hybrid cloud option allows your business to create a custom solution that fits your organizational needs.
However, there are always questions with new solutions. We reached out to indust...Dec. 18, 2015 12:45 PM EST Reads: 2,017 |
 About six years ago, Netflix began the move from a monolithic to cloud-based microservices architecture, openly documenting the journey along the way. Netflix is one of the earliest adopters of microservices, a term that didn't even exist when Netflix began moving away from its monolit...Dec. 17, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,296 |
 Using any programming framework to the fullest extent possible first requires an understanding of advanced software architecture concepts. While writing a little client-side JavaScript does not necessarily require as much consideration when designing a scalable software architecture, t...Dec. 14, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,433 |
| Test-driven development (TDD) has been around for a while now. Behavior-driven development (BDD), a comparably recent methodology, emerged from the practice of TDD and could reasonably be called a narrower application of TDD.
The TDD process allows a developer to use a failing unit t... Dec. 11, 2015 02:00 AM EST Reads: 2,930 |
 This is the first DevOps book that shows a realistic and achievable view of the full implementation of DevOps. Most of the books and other literature I have read on DevOps are all about the culture, the attitudes, how it relates to Agile and Lean practices, and a high level view of mic...Dec. 9, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,980 |
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