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Team Foundation Server 2008: Out-Of-The-Box Support for Continuous Integration
Along with Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft will be releasing a new version of TFS (Team Foundation Server). TFS 2008 will provide extended support for Continuous Integration.
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Oracle's Cameron Purdy on Coherence 3.3 and the Future of the Grid
Oracle has released Coherence 3.3 a Java grid computing and data clustering solution. InfoQ caught up with Tangosol founder Cameron Purdy who is now a Vice President of Development at Oracle to discuss the acquisition and the upcoming release.
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SOA and Software Appliances
One important trend in regard to SOA deployment options is virtualization. Virtualization is an important enabler of verstility and mobilty of services. A relatively new trend in the realm of virtualization is Software appliances, which can provide a viable option for packaging services for deployment.
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Data normalization, is it really that good?
Normalization is one of the corner-stones of database design. Recently some discussion emerged on the need for normalization suggesting denormalization as a more scalable solution.
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.NET Spotlight on Open Source: Beagle
One of the most famous Mono applications on Linux is Beagle. In this .NET Spotlight on Open Source, Infoq interviwed Joe Shaw and Pierre Ostlund on Beagle.
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Open Source Google-Like Infrastructure Project Hadoop Gains Momentum
While it has been in existence for over a year, open source Google-like infrastructure project Hadoop is just now receiving wider noticed by the development community. Recently Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny provided a status update showing benchmark performance improving by 20x in the last year.
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Using SSIS in a Team Setting
Jamie Tomson talks about his experiences trying to use SQL Server Integration Services in a team environment.
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Review: Continous Performance Management
Steven Haines from Quest has published an article demonstrating the use of performance analysis tools in the continuous build cycle as best practice and makes some thought provoking points about the cost of not doing so.
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Presentation: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on Availability and Consistency
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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Digging Deeper Into JBoss MetaMatrix
JBoss' Sacha Labourey has provided a detailed description of development uses of the MetaMatrix technology JBoss acquired in April.
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Gemstone OODB to support JRuby, Rubinius
Gemstone is working on Ruby support for their Object Database products, starting off with JRuby. We talked to Alan McKean from Gemstone about what's to come, technical details and Gemstone's plans with Rubinius.
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A case study of Apache peer/code review processes
Peter C. Rigby and Daniel M. German have released a case study of peer/code review processes used at Apache which looks at the types of reviews, frequency of them, and other characteristics. Although some question the data collection methodology, the papers offer an interesting set of discussions comparing and contrasting various review methodologies.
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QCon San Francisco (Nov 7-9) Schedule & Speakers Posted
The schedule and 44 speakers (another 20 to be confirmed soon) has been posted for QCon, InfoQ's new enterprise software development conference coming to San Francisco Nov 7-9. Some of the speakers include Martin Fowler; Rod Johnson (Spring Creator); the architects of Second Life, Orbitz, Yahoo! & Linked-In; Erik Meijer (LINQ Creator); and many more!
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Amazon adds a machine image marketplace to EC2
Amazon continues to create more competitive advantage for its infrastructure services platform (AWS) by introducing a new marketplace which allows image producers to charge customers for the machine images they develop.
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WSO2 publishes new round of performance metrics for their ESB
WSO2 has recently published a second set of performance metrics for their ESB. It shows that WSO2 ESB outperforms Mule and Apache ServiceMix.