The Beauty of Data!
Good design is imperative for allowing easy consumption for data.
However data can be extremely abstract and hard to reconcile
Read MoreHow to develop REST-ful APIs using Spring 3
Here is a very nice video demonstrating some good practices when it comes to building Restful APIs. It’s quite long but very thorough. REST as a technology is just a loose collection of principals that can be interpreted in many ways, this talk by…
Read More‘Tribes, Squads, Chapters and Guilds’: the Spotify org model
Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters and Guilds I just came across this article. I found quite interesting because it resonates with the kind of organizational model we are striving for at Krescendo (app teams = squads, xs, conque…
Read MoreUsing Spring JDBC Templates
As recognised by everyone, there is a long term goal to migrate away from UView. Why? Because it’s no longer being developed on, comes with lots of dependencies which are no longer maintained (other risks associated to this include security), and …
Read MoreGemFire and Enterprise Data Fabrics
There is clearly a lot of buzz surrounding “big data”. For the up and coming projects featuring: – Auditing – Messaging – Archiving – Notifications We need to keep a close eye on the tools and technologies available. Spring have just released a ne…
Read MoreWhat is Hadoop
The article below provides a good overview of the Hadoop framework and of the tools in its eco-system. http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/02/what-is-apache-hadoop.html The key question to ask ourselves is: how is this relevant to Krescendo? After all,…
Read More“How Might We”?
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/09/the_secret_phrase_top_innovato.html I copy-pasted this useful summary to the linked article: Within this deceptively simple phrase each word plays a powerful role in spurring creative problem-solving. “How” assumes …
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