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Transforming Software Architecture with Web as Platform

Presented by Dion Hinchcliffe on May 17, 2009 Length 00:58:29
Sections
Enterprise Architecture,
Operations & Infrastructure,
Process & Practices,
Architecture & Design,
Development
Topics
Architecture ,
Platforms ,
Communication ,
WOA ,
Web 2.0 ,
Cloud Computing ,
Open Source
Tags
SoftwareParadigm ,
QCon London 2009 ,
Social Networking ,
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Summary
This session takes a comprehensive look the "Web as Platform," implications for software architecture and innovations and ideas that are just now being fully appreciated. Changing concepts of system design and the discipline and practice of software architecture, that architects and technical leads must know today are addressed in this far ranging discussion.

Bio
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized business strategist and enterprise architect. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of Web 2.0 Journal and is current Editor-in-Chief of Social Computing Magazine. He is also the founder and owner of the popular Web 2.0 UniversityTM as well as The Enterprise 2.0 TV Show.

About the conference
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Great presentation! by Yuval Goldstein Posted
Twitter is now using Scala, not Ruby by Vladimir Kelman Posted
No need for Ruby nor Grails to increase productivity by Guy Pardon Posted
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    Great presentation!

    by Yuval Goldstein

    Really insightfull

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    Twitter is now using Scala, not Ruby

    by Vladimir Kelman

    Twitter developers actually switched from Ruby to Scala. Scala combines productivity of dynamic languages like Ruby with strict static type control. See www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/twitter_on_sc...

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    No need for Ruby nor Grails to increase productivity

    by Guy Pardon

    #, Plain old Java and JEE will do - especially if you ditch the application server. We normally reach 4GL productivity with plain old Java...

    Read more here:

    www.atomikos.com/Publications/J2eeWithoutApplic...

    blog.atomikos.com/?p=29

    blog.atomikos.com/?p=87

    blog.atomikos.com/?p=33

    Other than that, I agree that the web is a powerful platform, but unreliable by nature (like somebody pointed out in the question round of the talk).

    Best
    Guy

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