technology roadmap

At ActiveDev, we are constantly researching methodologies and technologies in order to provide the best service possible to our clients. This article is intended as a placeholder for all of the areas we are currently working on. At the present time, this is just a very rough draft. In-depth articles will be created based on our research.

Methodologies

• 12 Factor
• Richardson Maturity Model
• SOLID Object Oriented Design

Agile

• Scrum
• JIRA
• Confluence

Blockchain

• Hyperledger
• R3 Corda
• Bitcoin
• Etherium
• MultiChain

Learning

• Continuous Learning
• Software Capital
• Learn Code Academy
• Technology Diagram - Source Learn Code Academy

Microservices

• microservices.io
• Logging and Containers
• REST
• Hystrix - Netflix
• NGINX Microservices Blog

Frameworks and Tools

• http://spring.io/guides
• SpringDeveloper - YouTube
• Using SpringBoot jar instead of war - actuator, console
• Redis for Caching
• Redis as a message broker
• Splunk
• Release It (More than just code complete to production, i.e. metrics, logging, etc)
• ATOM

Environment

• Vagrant
• Docker
• JRebel
• NGINX Load Balancer and Caching

Continuous Integration

• Sonar
• Redis for Caching
• Jenkins
• Chef, Puppet, Ansible
• Git
• SourceTree

Security

OAuth2

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-oauth-2
• http://www.oauthsecurity.com/
• https://github.com/homakov/oauthsecurity

JWT

Fortify

Learn to Hack to help defend against it

Data

• Big data
• Machine learning
• Hadoop
• Solr
• ElasticSearch

Cloud

• AWS
• Bluemix
• CloudFoundry