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InfoQ Case Study: NASDAQ Market Replay

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Architecture,
Java
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Rich Internet Apps,
Web 2.0,
Rich Client / Desktop,
Cloud Computing

In this case study InfoQ reviews the usage of Adobe AIR and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in the NASDAQ Market Replay application. NASDAQ Market Replay provides a NASDAQ-validated replay and analysis of the activity in the stock market. The combination of S3 and AIR offers a powerful deployment model with little internal infrastructure required.

The Amazon.com Technology Platform: Building Blocks for Innovation

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Architecture,
SOA
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Platforms,
Performance & Scalability

In this QCon presentation, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon has become a platform provider, and how an increasing number of diverse businesses are built on the Amazon.com platform. Although Amazon.com's scale makes them seem an extreme case, lessons have been learnt that will be of use to every enterprise looking to provide services to or to consume services of business partners.

Availability & Consistency

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Architecture
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Deployment / Datacenter

When we move to distributed architectures for scalability and/or fault-tolerance reasons we are also introducing additional complexities. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels dives into the different parameters that play in the tension between availability and consistency and presents a generalized model that we can use to reason about the trade-offs between different solutions.

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InfoQ Case Study: NASDAQ Market Replay

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Web 2.0,
Rich Client / Desktop,
Cloud Computing

In this case study InfoQ reviews the usage of Adobe AIR and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in the NASDAQ Market Replay application. It is an exciting time for the software industry, as the NASDAQ Market Replay implementation demonstrates that a powerful data driven application can be brought to the market quickly and deployed within a limited budget.

Cloud Tools bring Java EE on Amazon EC2

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Architecture,
Java
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Virtualization,
Data Access,
Cloud Computing

Chris Richardson the author of "POJOs in Action", has released Cloud Tools, a set of tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). It's a Groovy framework that provides an API for launching EC2 instances; configuring MySQL, Tomcat servers; and deploying more web applications. In addition, it can also run JMeter and collect performance metrics.

Amazon upgrades EC2 with Persistent Storage

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Architecture
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Virtualization,
Data Access,
Cloud Computing

Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), which delivers Hardware as a Service (HaaS), is adding persistent storage to its list of features. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels write that "Persistent storage for Amazon EC2 will be offered in the form of storage volumes which you can mount into your EC2 instance as a raw block storage device."

Trading Consistency for Scalability in Distributed Architectures

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Architecture
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Performance & Scalability

eBay's Dan Pritchard and Amazon's Werner Vogels talk about the necessary trade-offs to achieve appropriate network partitioning tolerance for large distributed systems.

Consistency vs. availability: eventual consistency by Werner Vogels

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Architecture
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Performance & Scalability

Until the mid nineties, achieving distribution transparency and data consistency has often been the priority. As large Internet systems started to arise, availability became another important concern to be taken into consideration. Werner Vogels outlines some principles, abstractions and consistency/availability trade-offs related to large scale data replication with focus on eventual consistency.

Amazon FPS: customized payment service & DSL

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Architecture
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Domain Specific Languages,
SaaS,
Business

Amazon released a beta of its new Amazon Flexible Payment Service – Amazon FPS. FPS lowers transaction costs and supports micro payments. An unlimited number of Payment Instructions can be defined using a DSL. FPS makes it possible and easy to build customized payment management services, which, according to Amazon, will ultimately result in creation of innovative business models.