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Designing Enterprise IT Systems with REST

Community
SOA
Topics
REST,
Enterprise Architecture

In this presentation recorded at QCon SF 2008, Stuart Charlton explains how hypermedia and dynamic interfaces change the way architects and developers look at enterprise systems and their interactions.

News about Amazon

Flex: Engine Yard's New Cloud Offering

Community
Ruby
Topics
Announcements,
Performance & Scalability,
Cloud Computing

Engine Yard announced Flex at this year's Rails Conf. Flex runs on Amazon's EC2, but unlike its smaller brother Solo, Flex scales over more than one instance. We talked to Michael Mullany, VP of Marketing at Engine Yard to get more information.

AWS Toolkit for Eclipse announced

Community
Java
Topics
Cloud Computing,
IDE

Amazon have announced the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse to allow Eclipse instances to launch and manage EC2 instances from within an Eclipse environment

Managing Amazon Services on the iPhone

Community
Architecture
Topics
Cloud Computing,
Mobile

A number of companies have started to develop mobile applications for managing Amazon Web Services. The most popular device is iPhone and the main service considered is EC2.

Articles about Amazon

Virtual Panel on Cloud Computing

Community
Architecture
Topics
Cloud Computing

In this virtual panel, InfoQ wants to find out from leading cloud experts what are the benefits brought by cloud computing as well as the constraints in using them, what is better to use, a public or a private cloud, is the cloud interoperability needed, what is the difference between providing infrastructure or a platform, and how can a client enforce regulatory compliance.

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. 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.

Presentations about Amazon

Jinesh Varia About Amazon Alexa Web Service's Architecture

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Clustering & Caching,
Cloud Computing

In this presentation, Jinesh Varia, a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, talks about the architecture of one of Amazon's web services called Alexa. Jinesh explains how Amazon has reached scalability, performance and reduced costs for the Alexa service.

The Amazon.com Technology Platform: Building Blocks for Innovation

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
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.

Interviews about Amazon

Jeff Barr Discusses Amazon Web Services

Community
SOA
Topics
Cloud Computing,
Web Services

In this interview from QCon London 2008, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evangelist Jeff Barr discusses SimpleDB, S3, EC2, SQS, cloud computing, how the different Amazon services interact within an application, the origins of AWS, SimpleDB and Microsoft SQL Server Data Services, globalization of the AWS cloud, the March AWS outage, SimpleDB Stored Procedures and converting between AMIs and VMWare.