Continuous integration (CI) is the implementation of a process for continuously verifying whether a piece of software is working. CI provides developers with feedback about whether the piece of software
Consider this all-too-common scenario in today’s complex, networked application environments. A network operations manager is awakened by a phone call in the middle of the night: “We’re experiencing significant performance
Making the transition from legacy methodologies, such as waterfall, to Agile development seems like a no-brainer. Delivering better-quality, more efficiently developed software applications is a goal that appeals to entire
As the software development industry matures, it is devising methods for ushering products from inception to completion, a process that has come to be known by the buzzword ALM (Application
Overall, developers should keep an eye on four major technologies — the cloud, mobile computing, social networking, and big data. Researcher IDC recently noted that spending on these areas is
Software applications rarely experience a uniform workload. The workload varies by different months in a year, different weeks in a month, different days in a week as well as different
Hadoop, it seems, is everywhere these days. IBM, Oracle and Yahoo are among the big guns that have been supporting Hadoop for years. Recently, Microsoft joined the club by announcing
Like Web 2.0, the innovation involved in Enterprise Architecture (EA) is more about improving how we use what we already have than inventing something entirely new. While some very specific
The quest to bring developers and operational people closer together in our Web-centric and increasingly cloud-centric world has created numerous innovations over the years. Many of those innovations, such as