John Sheehan discusses web hooks and explores 3 cloud services: SendGrid’s Parse API for processing email, Twilio’s API for making phone calls and SMS, and Tok’s OpenTok API for web video conference.
In traditional fashion, we celebrate the new year with a roundup of predictions in the SOA and Cloud space for 2012. This coming year the promising trends in big data and IT consumerization are expected to lead SOA and Cloud adoption. What is your prediction?
In his new post Subbu Allamaraju discusses some of the problems with current APIs usage and suggests the introduction of an additional layer responsible for aligning APIs to the client requirements.
Microsoft is making available a cloud service called Social Analytics for users interested in analyzing Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, etc. in order to get insight on the trends on the social web.
Mark Seemann, author of Dependency Injection in .NET, talks to us about the differences between DI and Service Locators and the importance of having a Composite Root. He also touches on how these all relate back to the SOLID principals of object oriented design.
Adrian Cockcroft discusses the advantages of running Netflix services in Amazon’s cloud, comparing the old data center solution against the new cloud architecture implemented to offer faster, more scalable, more available, and more productive services across the enterprise.
Eben Hewitt introduces the Apache Cassandra project to those interested in getting a quick clear picture of what Cassandra is, what are its main features, what is the the data model used and the API.
Jon Skeet presents Noda Time, a .NET port of Joda Time which is a Java library for handling date and time. Skeet discusses the troubles handling date and time with the standard .NET API, and how Noda Time simplifies and solves those issues.
In this interview from RubyFringe, Yehuda Katz talks about Merb, its design principles, and how it differs from Rails. Yehuda also mentions Yard, an RDoc replacement.
