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This complimentary e-kit for IT architects provides a collection of best practices, how-to guides, and materials to help you deliver a stable, reusable architecture, as well as guidance on related IBM tools that promote communication to unify all aspects of design and development. Explore the benefits of using:
Six Free Project Management Certification Training Courses
As a member of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI's) corporate council, IBM has more than 12,000 PMI-certified project managers and has been honored for its educational programs. Now, you can get a taste of IBM’s project management curriculum makes with six free courses: Communications Planning, Closing Projects, Change Management for Projects, Taking Control of Existing Projects, and Portfolio Management for Initiatives.
Succeeding with Agile at Scale
Agile Development has gone mainstream. It promises improved team efficiency, shorter development cycles, and better quality software that is ultimately better suited to the customer’s needs. IBM Rational provides technology, best practices, and industry expertise to help companies succeed in an Agile environment – regardless of their size and complexities. In this eKit:
Software Quality Survival Guide
A helpful kit for project managers and testers. These resources can help you improve the functionality, usability, reliability, and scalability of your most important software applications. What's in the guide?
White Paper: Writing Good Use Cases
Writing good use cases is more of an art than a science. In this IBM Rational white paper "Tips for writing good use cases," IBM requirements evangelist Jim Heumann explores the history and function of the use case, then provides a set of tips to help teams incorporate best practices in use-case driven development. This paper helps readers develop use cases that more clearly communicate their detailed information to a diverse audience to effectively support the goal of creating successful software and systems development projects.
Smart agile development within dispersed teams
Successful agile development teams have demonstrated impressive increases in team efficiency, shorter development cycles, better quality software and software that is ultimately better suited to the customer's needs. A repository that promotes asset collaboration and governance while ensuring quality can be a key cornerstone of a successful agile development strategy. Hear how IBM Rational Asset Manager can help empower distributed agile teams.
10 time-saving techniques in Eclipse Europa
This tutorial shows how to be more productive with Eclipse Europa, providing 10 ways to speed up your development in Eclipse. Many of the features shown for productivity are either new or improved features introduced in Eclipse Europa.
After a brief introduction on Cloud Computing, Matthieu Hug, CEO of RunMyProcess.com provides his insight on a new class of information systems: Multi-Enterprise Information Systems. He argues that they are poised to replace inflexible partner extranets.
Zoho has announced that its applications can be deployed on Google App Engine (GAE). Zoho offers a suite of online applications, most of them free for personal usage, and Creator, an online application creator.
In an on-going series of posts titled The REST dialogs, Duncan Cragg “argue[s] the case for eBay to adopt a truly REST approach to their integration API”. In “Business conversations”, Duncan makes a businesses case for adoption of REST-style architecture.
This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Interviews, RESTFul Web Integration in Practice, Solutions Track, Performance and Scalability, Being Agile, Ruby in the Enterprise, Cloud Computing, Functional/Concurrent Programming Applied, Effective design and Clean code, and many more!
Virtualization is more than just server consolidation. Advanced virtualization eases management, enhances flexibility, raises network throughput, and improves redundancy and uptime.
In this interview, Damien Katz talks about CouchDB, a distributed, fault tolerant, document oriented database developed by Apache Incubator. CouchDB is written in Erlang, and the database is accessed through an HTTP/JSON API. The database view engine is run on JavaScript, but other languages have been used like Ruby and Python.
In this interview taken by InfoQ’s Ryan Slobojan, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talks about the system architecture and the challenges faced when building a very large online community. Because MySpace is built almost entirely on the .NET Framework, Dan explains how a .NET product scales on hundreds of servers.
In this presentation, Ian Wilkes, VP of Systems Engineering, describes the architecture used by the popular game named Second Life. Ian presents how the architecture was at its debut and how it evolved over years as users and features have been added.
In this presentation, Ian Flint, Director of Operations for Bix, Yahoo!’s online contest service, tries to explain the infrastructure and architecture employed by Yahoo! to keep going a multitude of servers running of different platforms and offering different services.
Composite Software offers a new level of granularity when compared to SaaS (Software as a Service). Composite Software is about enabling "right-sourcing", i.e. move (or keep) arbitrary small or large elements of functionality wherever it is the most cost effective to operate them, not just entire systems. Economically, "right-sourcing" is far more efficient than "outsourcing" and SaaS. The goal of this book is start by understanding today’s software construction processes and technologies and explore why and how it should be evolved to support core composition mechanisms.
Within this book you will find everything you need to get up and running using Struts2 – from the architecture and configuration, to implementing actions and the supporting infrastructure such as validation and internationalization. Above all else, it focuses on the practical – with plenty of code and productivity tips to get you started using Struts2 today.
Domain Driven Design is a vision and approach for designing a domain model that reflects a deep understanding of the business domain. This book is a short, quickly-readable summary and introduction to the fundamentals of DDD; it does not introduce any new concepts; it attempts to concisely summarize the essence of what DDD is, drawing mostly Eric Evans' book, as well other sources since published such as Jimmy Nilsson's Applying Domain Driven Design, and various DDD discussion forums.
