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The notion of a “sovereign cloud” appeared in French politics around ten years ago, launched by President Sarkozy at a digital G8 meeting in Paris, it was closely linked to the idea of "civilising the Internet". At the time, this notion depicted the Internet as a Wild West, a primitive zone, populated by barbaric natives, the Internet users, and where State presence was dearly needed, to improve and civilise this dodgy place. These days the term is coming back, but its message has changed. The…

Lire la BD en français Hello ! Deploying a new release to production is more complex than simply checking that the app's code functions correctly. We must also make sure that it will run correctly on the existing production servers, and with the production environment's infrastructure. And in order to do this, the Ops leave nothing to chance...!

D3.js certainly is the most versatile JavaScript data rendering library available: turning data into mind blowing visualizations is only limited by your imagination. A key component to turn static pages into animated ones are the powerful selection transitions. However, too many simultaneous transitions on a web page will soon bring you CPU on its knees. Hence this blog post. We faced this problem when displaying swiss transport real time data on a map, within an SVG layout: rendering was lagging, event sourced data were not…

The improvement of software factories is one of the current OCTO’s R&D topics. This article presents our vision regarding their future. Before diving into new features and perspectives, let us first describe the concepts and limits of current software factories.   What is a software factory? A software factory is made of several tools for both development and automation of the overall software building process, from development steps to production delivery. A software factory also contains all the tools required for software development, thus including…

Following the previous article (it is true :-)), we will consider the Amazon Web Services - AWS - to treat 3 themes related to hybrid IaaS Cloud : the connection between "on-premise" IT and a public cloud infrastructure, the policy for management of VM images and finally the licenses.

In this first part, we introduce hybrid cloud computing, then relying on Amazon Web Services we will try to provide answers to questions related to hybrid infrastructures.

In three years, USI has become the reference conference for « geeks » and « bosses » wishing to create Information Technologies that transform our society and our organizations. During the first editions, we had the great honor to welcome important persons such as Neil Armstrong, Eliyahu Goldratt, Juan Enriquez, Neal Ford, Chris Anderson, Martin Fowler... and many actors of our professions coming from Google, Microsoft, SAP, Mozilla,...

OCTO and David Anderson are pleased to announce a Kanban workshop on October 27th and 28th. This intensive 2-day Kanban workshop with the Kanban pioneer provides an introduction to Lean, Pull Systems and Kanban and will explain how established industrial engineering theory can apply to software development process.

To unit test our iPhone developments we rely heavily on Google-Toolbox-for-Mac and OCMock. After updating to the iphone SDK4 (IOS4) and Xcode 3.2.3 we had an unpleasant surprise : our testing frameworks refused to compile and as of today we have no information about how to solve this situation. Nevetheless we managed to resolve this problem :