Charles Humble
InfoQ
Sussex, WI, United States
Contact Charles
Discover and connect with journalists and influencers around the world, save time on email research, monitor the news, and more.
| Recent: |
|
| Past: |
|
Past articles by Charles:
What Does the Future Hold for Java?
The panelists discuss new features in Java including Records, Local Variable Type Inference, and performance improvements, the various ‘free’ builds of OpenJDK, and the development of Foojay.io. → Read More
The InfoQ eMag - Real World Chaos Engineering
In this eMag we’ve pulled together case studies to show mechanisms to help create a successful chaos practice, even in tightly regulated industries where you might face considerable opposition. → Read More
Obituary: Jan Stenberg
It is with great sadness that we announce that InfoQ editor Jan Stenberg has passed away due to complications from COVID-19. Jan was a well-known writer within the technology space, and was a frequent attendee at conferences held around the globe. He will be deeply missed within the InfoQ community. → Read More
Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2020
An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2020, with a focus on fundamental architectural patterns, framework usage, and design skills. → Read More
Remote Working Approaches That Worked (And Some That Didn’t)
Charles Humble talks about his personal experience working remotely at C4 Media, the company behind InfoQ & QCon . He shares some lessons he has learned so we can spot common pitfalls and avoid them. → Read More
Working Remotely and Managing Remote Teams
Charles Humble discusses how to decide if remote working is desirable, common pitfalls of remote working and mitigations, techniques for managing remote teams, plus some general advice. → Read More
Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report
An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team see the “architecture and design” (A&D) topic evolving in 2019, which focuses on fundamental architectural patterns, framework usage, and design skills. → Read More
InfoQ’s 2018, and What We Expect to See in 2019
We take a look back at what we say on infoQ in 2018, and think about what the next year might bring. → Read More
Raw String Literals Removed From Java 12 as Feature Set Frozen
The next version of Java SE, JDK 12, has reached the first ramp-down point where the feature set if frozen. Amongst other things JDK 12 provides a preview of an enhanced Switch statement, adds a number of improvements to the G1 garbage collector, and introduces a new experimental garbage collector called Shenandoah. But one major proposal for JDK 12, raw string literals, has been removed. → Read More
InfoQ's New Desktop Design: Public Beta and Video Tour
We've made a number of changes to InfoQ's desktop site, the third major overhaul of our design since we got started in 2006. You can switch to the new design now to try it out. → Read More
Stateful Service Design Considerations for the Kubernetes Stack
At this summer’s QCon in New York, Jonas Bonér delivered one of the most popular talks of the conference with his focus on Designing Events-First Microservices. In this InfoQ Q&A, we asked Bonér to explain how “bringing bad habits from monolithic design” is a road to nowhere for service design, and where he sees his Akka framework fitting in the cloud-native stack. → Read More
IBM to Acquire Red Hat for $34 Billion
IBM announced this afternoon that it will acquire open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion, the largest deal IBM has ever done, according to Reuters. The deal will help IBM expand its reach as an enterprise cloud computing provider. → Read More
Ethics - What Next?
This year at QCon London and the Coed:Ethics Conference we started to talk about what it means to be an ethical technologist. The running theme of both conferences was taking care. Who should do that? Everyone. From shareholders to individual developers to implementers and users we need to feel personally responsible for the ethics of our products → Read More
Experimental Reactive Relational Database Connectivity Driver, R2DBC, Announced at SpringOne
Announced at the SpringOne Platform conference in Washington DC, R2DBC is an experimental API designed from the ground up for Reactive programming against relational databases. The end goal is try to influence the ADBA specification. → Read More
RSocket, a New Application Network Protocol for Reactive Applications, Announced at SpringOne
Announced at the SpringOne Platform conference in Washington DC, RSocket is a new layer 7, language-agnostic application network protocol. It is a bi-directional, multiplexed, message-based, binary protocol based on Reactive Streams back pressure. → Read More
Spring Framework 5.1 Ships with Java 11 Support
The SpringOne Platform conference got underway in Washington DC this week, with a flurry of new releases and annoucements. During the Tuesday morning keynote, Juergen Hoeller, principal engineer at Pivotal and co-founder of the Spring Framework, talked about Java 8, the new Java release cadence, and the support in Spring Framework 5.1 for Java 11, which was released yesterday. → Read More
Ethics, a Psychological Perspective
With emerging technologies like machine learning, developers can now achieve much more than ever before. But this new power has a downside. Only recently, Facebook’s chief executive apologised in front of the European Parliament for not taking enough responsibility for fake news, foreign interference in elections and developers misusing people’s information. → Read More
A Critique of Resizable Hash Tables: Riak Core & Random Slicing
This fall, Wallaroo Labs will be releasing a large new feature set to our distributed data stream processing framework, Wallaroo. One of the new features requires a size-adjustable, distributed data structure to support growing & shrinking of compute clusters. It might be a good idea to use a distributed hash table to support the new feature, but what distributed hash algorithm should we choose? → Read More
#noprojects - A Culture of Continuous Value
In this thoughtful exploration on the future of work, the authors explore the past, present and future of the “project”. And why, in today’s fast changing & hyper-competitive world, running a temporary endeavour is the wrong approach to building sustainable products and how #noprojects is fundamentally changing the way companies work. → Read More
#noprojects - A Culture of Continuous Value
In this thoughtful exploration on the future of work, the authors explore the past, present and future of the “project”. And why, in today’s fast changing & hyper-competitive world, running a temporary endeavour is the wrong approach to building sustainable products and how #noprojects is fundamentally changing the way companies work. → Read More