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Apply DevOps best practices to the BPM lifecycle
Developers are better equipped at managing both the development and business side of the BPM workflow. Learn about the BPM lifecycle and its impact on DevOps. Continue Reading
State of the market for BPM system tools
Get the most from business process management tools with container support, and learn why BPM and containers are dependent on one another for business benefits. Continue Reading
What are some API design principles for microservices?
APIs are important, and having an API strategy is important, too. Twain Taylor takes a look at three major API design principles that all organizations need to keep in mind. Continue Reading
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In a microservices app, how many microservices are too many?
How many microservices are optimal for your microservices app? DevOps analyst Chris Tozzi explains how to use containers, codebase analysis and other tactics to decide. Continue Reading
What are the best options for open source API management tools?
While organizations have plenty of proprietary API management tools to choose from, there are plenty of open source options as well. Here are some of the top open source tools. Continue Reading
The role of DevOps and its connection to enterprise architecture
While advocates often speak about how enterprise architecture should support DevOps, there are many ways DevOps can support enterprise architecture. Tom Nolle explains.Continue Reading
What is the future of container deployment?
Container deployment continues to evolve with the help of VM models, microservices and DevOps. Learn how the container architecture can impact your business goals.Continue Reading
The reality of microservices adoption and the limits of your monolith
In this Q&A, Randy Shoup of Stitch Fix talks about the 'reality' of microservices adoption and shares three telltale signs that your monolith has reached its limit.Continue Reading
How important is ALM process automation in a modern DevOps approach?
Automation is key to the modern DevOps approach and application lifecycle management. Twain Taylor explains where and how automation should fit into your development phases.Continue Reading
Test your knowledge of API management tools and techniques
Are you on top of your game when it comes to API management tools, techniques and strategies? This quiz will test your knowledge when it comes to cultivating your API ecosystem.Continue Reading
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API lifecycle management: Why it matters and how to do it
Many organizations are thinking about designing and deploying their own APIs, but the work can't stop there. Vanessa Ramos of Red Hat explains why API lifecycle management matters.Continue Reading
Red Hat exec explains how to tackle microservices development issues
Developing microservices and building a microservice architecture? Get ready for immature tools and architectural models and new security risks. Then, get ready for the next wave.Continue Reading
Divvying up must-do secure application development list for dev and ops
To secure application development, here's what DevOps teams must do to outplay today's hackers, whose tools and practices have grown very sophisticated.Continue Reading
Taking a look at today's API management services and strategies
API management services are experiencing a significant transformation due to vendor acquisitions and constant changes in strategy. Find out what this means for your enterprise.Continue Reading
The benefits of microservices for mobile, and how Node.js can help
As organizations push mobile development, some are finding the benefits of microservices particularly useful. A Red Hat architect explains why and shares some useful frameworks.Continue Reading
An essential guide to software container usability and management
Like many development technologies, containers are becoming both more usable and more complex. This guide will walk you through changes in containers and their latest usability.Continue Reading
How governance can be applied to both container and microservices apps
In container and microservices governance, the goal is to govern while utilizing the benefits of the cloud, virtualization and service-based apps. Expert Tom Nolle discusses how.Continue Reading
Understand how to migrate a VM application to container deployment
As container deployment has become more efficient, users are looking to take their VM application to the container level. Expert Tom Nolle discusses how to make this transition.Continue Reading
Five DevOps principles to apply to enterprise architecture
A DevOps-friendly enterprise architecture must attempt to adhere to five key principles, including flexibility in tools, modern technology and a focus on information visibility.Continue Reading
Are there easier ways to build mobile apps?
As the mobile industry is maturing, so is the way apps are being designed. Learn about the latest tools and software updates to help support and build mobile apps.Continue Reading
Best practices for implementing a mobile test strategy
Expert George Lawton discusses the best ways to plan out a mobile test strategy that works for your business goals.Continue Reading
DevOps, PaaS help define a divergent digital transformation roadmap
The nuts and bolts of any strategy that involves app modernization and digital transformation are going to vary, but there's still common ground to be found.Continue Reading
Using DevOps principles for better application modernization
There are many different approaches to modernizing an app with DevOps principles. The goal is to make an app that's efficient, scalable, agile and continuously delivered.Continue Reading
Seven ways the mature Docker container architecture changes the game
To run Docker containers in production, you need to design a Docker container architecture that best meets your needs. Chris Tozzi explains what that takes when running at scale.Continue Reading
Microservices development presents integration, deployment challenges
New development technologies and styles like microservices come with a fair share of integration concerns. See how software pros handle them.Continue Reading
What are the benefits of integrating a CI tool with Docker?
If you're moving toward DevOps, consider the benefits of integrating a CI tool with Docker. Learn why this step is necessary and how best to go about integration steps.Continue Reading
Managing API versions? Communication is key
Having multiple API versions is necessary when trying to break change into an existing API. Find out steps to ensure success.Continue Reading
How to manage microservices with a container registry
Container registries will help to compile and store images. Get a better understanding of popular registry products and services.Continue Reading
Moving your enterprise toward microservices governance
Get a better understanding of techniques and tools for uncomplicating a microservices governance in the enterprise.Continue Reading
Continuous integration and deployment with containers
By closely following prescribed test procedures, containers can go a long way toward satisfying business goals for continuous integration as well as deployment.Continue Reading
How to keep microservices performance from going south
Microservices can streamline development, but at what cost? Kurt Marko discusses the potential performance impacts and how to implement proper microservices performance management.Continue Reading
Managing the merger of SOA and microservices
Expert Tom Nolle discusses why your allegiance to microservices or SOA doesn't necessarily have to be a choice, if you can work with both.Continue Reading
Application containers offer a new approach to SOA
Traditional SOA and containerized infrastructure share many common goals, but containers offer better efficiency and manageability. How can enterprises bring the two together?Continue Reading
Merging SOA and web services to improve microservices management
Learn how merging SOA and web services will impact cloud-deployment thinking and make room for microservices.Continue Reading
Business process change depends on leaders, experts say
Experts explain why making meaningful changes to business processes requires having a leader that can oversee those changes and guide everyone involved along the right path.Continue Reading
Why technical debt management tops the list of developer pain points
Software engineers' top problem is technical debt management, and the demand for rapid development and deployment of apps and microservices are to blame, a developer advocate says.Continue Reading
Challenges of checkpointing in distributed systems include security
Transparent checkpointing can help developers, but challenges crop up with security and storage. A computer science professor explains some of the caveats involved.Continue Reading
Make sure your microservice design supports reuse and avoids redundancy
Microservices are supposed to make life easier. But when improperly managed, it can do just the opposite. Tom Nolle explains what it means to design microservices properly.Continue Reading
Mobile app test and development address the surge in mobile users
The rapidly changing consumer landscape spawned mostly by the proliferation of mobile device users and their multiple channels of communications is forcing companies to rethink their application development and testing strategies. But most ...Continue Reading
Relieving pain points of change management for digital transformation
What's hard about change management for digital transformation projects? A Capgemini expert explains why the scope of change is daunting and gives advice.Continue Reading
Ministry uses intelligent BPM to save time chasing expired credit cards
A ministry used PNMSoft’s Sequence iBPM suite to more efficiently track down expired credit cards and eliminate manual tasks for call center representatives.Continue Reading
In API projects, official clients aren't optional anymore
In the midst of API projects, remember that officially supported clients are must-haves these days to send a positive message to the API community.Continue Reading
Microservices governance requires standards, security and scrutiny
What does it take to govern microservices? Christine Parizo explains why this requires comprehensive security, the establishment of standards and a careful selection of products.Continue Reading
How case management can tighten up your SOA environment
Steve Weissman explains how principles of case management can be used in a SOA environment to coordinate between its moving parts in order to run seamlessly.Continue Reading
To pair or not to pair (program)
Is programming in pairs really a desirable alternative to solo work? While arguments seem to lean in favor of pair programming, there are still those who question the value of forcing programmers ...Continue Reading
Embracing intelligence in BPM trends
Embracing all BPM trends may come at a cost to your enterprise. Your technology purchases should be based on needs. Learning to first assess business needs will be the best guidance to process management and rules.
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What a developer learned about API usability and design in high school
In API design projects, one engineer boosts API usability with a lesson he learned in high school. Learn what that lesson was and how it helps him craft a quality API.Continue Reading
Poor componentization puts service programming at risk
Managing components is not easy. The evolution of microservices and the internet of things is not making it any easier. Here's how to properly structure your componentization architecture.Continue Reading
Core advantages of microservices need to align with business goals
How should we think about application architecture when it comes to microservices? Here we explore how to realistically fit microservices into your business application portfolio.Continue Reading
API versioning with the Semantic Versioning specification
While developers have some flexibility in the versioning schema they use for internal projects, it's important to establish an easily understandable standard for API versioning.Continue Reading
SOA tutorial: Trends, governance and the microservice impact
How should we think about SOA today? Is it going the way of the dinosaur, or experiencing a second wind of usability that just requires a little tweaking? We explore in this guide.Continue Reading
ALM and DevOps tooling still a critical part of orchestration
It seems that 'DevOps' is beginning to be increasingly used alongside the term 'orchestration.' Tom Nolle explains what these two things share in common -- and what they don't.Continue Reading
Why building microservices may call upon your gardening skills
What do microservices and landscaping have in common? In this piece, one microservices-oriented CTO shares tips for their creation, including how thinking like a gardener can help.Continue Reading
Developing a clearly defined API management strategy
APIs are enjoying a ubiquitous lifestyle and becoming the main entryway to the digital business. As a software intermediary that makes it possible for programs to communicate with each other, APIs reach across many industries and can dwell in ...Continue Reading
Create a holistic GRC system for SOA and microservices
Things like cloud applications and microservices have altered the traditional foundations of GRC. Tom Nolle explains why and describes a new approach for GRC.Continue Reading
The basics of establishing a RESTful API testing program
RESTful API testing is about establishing a culture of continuous testing and team accountability. Greg Sypolt reviews the core components of a RESTful API testing program.Continue Reading
How to keep things on track when building API portfolios
As important as APIs have become, many still fail to achieve API success by not setting goals properly. Tom Nolle explains why this matters and how to manage an API portfolio.Continue Reading
Legacy system modernization: Try hitching apps to a cloud
If you're struggling to bring your legacy applications into the modern age, the cloud can help bridge systems. Expert Steve Weissman says it may not always be ideal, but can still work.Continue Reading
How to choose middleware for your mobile-first strategy
A key part of going mobile-first is selecting the middleware that aligns with your end goals. In this tip, Tom Nolle examines the factors to consider when picking that middleware.Continue Reading
Why the election should have you thinking about aPaaS
What do Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and developers who use free aPaaS have in common?Continue Reading
Creating successful RESTful API design
Successful API design requires lots of attention to detail. Take these three steps for creating RESTful API design.Continue Reading
Air Force uses event-driven framework and SOA to support warfighters
The Air Force is using SOA to improve data sharing and track aircraft in real time. Michael Marek of Air Mobility Command explains what businesses can learn from their experience.Continue Reading
Beat hackers with a vulnerability assessment process
Get started on a vulnerability risk assessment process to prevent hacks on data, applications and more. Take these steps to identify vulnerabilities and improve risk management.Continue Reading
Five deployment technologies for flexible services
Learn how to ease responsive tech stacks with these five deployment technologies.Continue Reading
Finding harmony between middleware tools and emerging apps
Tom Nolle explains how developers and architects can navigate the bewildering world of middleware tools and create harmony between middleware and emerging applications.Continue Reading
Tailoring mobile business solutions for success
Mobile technology changes rapidly. It's a challenge for any company to keep up to date. But some techniques can be applied to ensure successful mobile innovation for a business.Continue Reading
Essential Guide: The latest on enterprise architecture strategy
What enterprise architecture management issues do you face? Below is a collection of all things enterprise architecture strategy, from new trends to advice to mobile development.Continue Reading
Put people at the heart of your SOA governance model
Governance is critical in IT, but practitioners often are wrapped up with the technical components; they forget about their people. Expert Steve Weissman explains further.Continue Reading
Six aspects of API creation that greatly impact production
When it comes to API creation, simplicity is critical. Vivek Gupta of AnyPresence discussed the six aspects of API creation developers can address to accelerate API production.Continue Reading
Why a big data algorithm belongs on your dev agenda
Learn how shared algorithms, like public APIs, eliminate a build-your-own (BYO) bottleneck in the application development process.Continue Reading
Developers: Eat your own dog food when you build an API
It's not enough to simply build an API. If you don't "eat your own dog food" before distributing your API, you are setting yourself up for failure. Zachary Flower explains why.Continue Reading
Designing a modern enterprise architecture
Building apps to handle thousands of simultaneous, distributed services requires a new architectural approach. Kurt Marko examines the steps organizations will need to take.Continue Reading
UX development becomes a critical priority in 2016
As a rapidly growing number of users demand access to enterprise apps, developers must think even harder about how they approach UI and UX. George Lawton explains what this means.Continue Reading
Five tips for better API versioning and migration
Business needs change, and that often means APIs must change along with them. Here we examine five key strategies for avoiding disaster when API changes must occur.Continue Reading
API integration tutorial: Latest trends and strategies
Learn about API trends in security, testing, design and B2B strategies in this essential guide.Continue Reading
The importance of determining your CEP architecture bias
Making the most of CEP architecture requires figuring out which organizational goals you want the platform to help you achieve. Tom Nolle explains how to determine this.Continue Reading
Use a BPM strategy to modernize legacy applications
How viable is a BPM strategy to modernize legacy applications? Tom Nolle takes a critical look and provides a step by step explanation of how it can be used effectively.Continue Reading
Why mix data analytics with BPM and SOA?
How organizations handle data analytics will be a big deal for SOA in 2016. Here we explore the steps developers and enterprise architects will need to take.Continue Reading
APIs go unnoticed as an alternative to EDI services
EDI services have managed to become an integral part of many organizations' B2B processes, but APIs may be a smart alternative -- even if many businesses don't know it yet.Continue Reading
Consistency is critical in a business rules management system
As much as business rules management can help an organization streamline operations, a general misunderstanding of business rules is hurting efforts. Steve Weissman explains why.Continue Reading
Adopting a 4-tier architecture for mobile solutions
Developers have depended on the 3-tier architecture for Web applications, but now mobile demands a new, 4-tier architecture. Matthew David discusses what to know about 4-tier.Continue Reading
Testing microservices and APIs in the cloud
While app architects and developers find that microservices and RESTful APIs provide much-needed agility, it's also complicating testing efforts. Tom Nolle explains why.Continue Reading
Indiegogo puts users first by focusing on UX research
Indiegogo UX pro Aga Bojko prioritizes her company's users and highlights the importance of user experience and understanding how to keep consumers satisfied.Continue Reading
Understanding the true nature of CEP applications
Complex event processing lets you gather BI in time to influence current operations. But unlocking the value of event-driven architecture requires a thorough understanding of CEP.Continue Reading
How does application container technology affect CI efforts?
Containers are certainly the new app development craze, but does this new technology help or hinder efforts around continuous integration? Chris Riley examines.Continue Reading
Q&A: Can APIs neutralize B2B integration pain points?
B2B integration is necessary for a huge number of today's companies, but interacting with partner systems and data is not always simple. Ken Yagen discusses how the use of APIs can help.Continue Reading
Q&A: The role of RESTful APIs in B2B integration
RESTful APIs are making their way into the enterprise, and now they are poised to make an impact on B2B integration. Ken Yagen explains why and how they can be leveraged effectively.Continue Reading
Are microservices more like SOA or MVC architecture?
How new is the concept of microservices? Does it compare more closely with the principles of SOA or those of MVC architecture? Chris Riley examines this topic.Continue Reading
Should you have an m-commerce strategy?
Mobile has now made a significant mark on the area of e-commerce, quickly becoming a preferred platform for consumers. Matthew David explains why an m-commerce strategy is needed.Continue Reading
Tech apprenticeships to improve developer shortage
At JavaOne 2015, Steve Millidge discussed how the U.K. is creating tech apprenticeships to help solve the looming developer shortage.Continue Reading
Are microservices a magic wand for legacy software modernization?
For many organizations, dealing with legacy software modernization is simply a painful fact of life. However, microservices may provide relief. Brad Irby explains how.Continue Reading
Should we take a mobile-first approach to development?
More and more companies are placing emphasis on the idea of 'mobile first.' But what does it mean to take a mobile-first approach to development?Continue Reading
What are some strong tools for mobile app analytics?
How can you keep better track of your mobile campaigns? In this article, contributor Matthew David examines a number of analytics tools for mobile apps and how to use them effectively.Continue Reading
What can we really expect from Apple TV apps?
Apple recently released the new, fourth-generation Apple TV -- complete with support for apps. But will Apple be able to dominate the app market with this new device?Continue Reading
Business data management risks can't be solved just with SOA, cloud
SOA and the cloud are not the answers to everything. We examine the steps organizations need to take in order to solve problems surrounding business data retention.Continue Reading
Using a Web traffic tool to keep track of your data
Now more than ever, it's critical to keep track of the data being sent to the Internet even when your device is sitting idle. Brad Irby examines the tools you can use to do this.Continue Reading
Fit component coupling into your middleware architecture
An application needs to control component coupling and middleware at the same time. Tom Nolle examines the fundamental coupling concepts app managers need to understand.Continue Reading
How to move from Ruby to Java microservices architecture
Gilt, an online luxury marketplace, moved from a monolithic Ruby architecture to a more high-performance Java microservices architecture. Here are best practices.Continue Reading
Why should I use a build server?
Because apps can be built on a developer's local machine, some question the usefulness of a build server. However, Brad Irby points out that they provide some distinct advantages.Continue Reading
Is there a way to automate API code generation?
As useful as APIs are, developers still struggle to create them due to lapses in documentation and specs. Brad Irby explores a tool that can help automate API code generation.Continue Reading