vol 4

January 2011

what's new

Focus on continuous delivery of software and methods to enable it
Diversity of and depth in cloud offerings
Using basic web technologies in more effective and efficient ways

Techniques

real-time business intelligence
smart systems
devops
Automated database deployment ensures that the full cycle of deploying application and database changes is automated
acceptance test of journeys
Progressive enhancement
Concurrency abstractions and patterns
catagorization of technical debt

Tools

Infrastructure as code: The two front-running open source tools for infrastructure automation are Chef and Puppet.
Vagrant
API management
WCF HTTP
Splunk

Platforms

OpenStack
vFabric
Node.js
Heroku
Mobile Web