InfoQ Homepage Infrastructure Content on InfoQ
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James Gosling Resigns from Oracle
"Father of Java" James Gosling has announced that he resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd).
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InfoQ Feature Set: What Do You Want To See?
What’s next for InfoQ? What are some of the areas we should be focusing on feature wise? We'd like to ask you where you’d like the site to go from a feature-set perspective. InfoQ is still lagging behind many of the world-class media sites out there. We may not be the New York Times, but with your help we'll have the will and the way to get there!
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Useful Helpers for Applications Deployed on Google App Engine
Some of the later helper frameworks and tools for applications written for Google App Engine are: SimpleDS and Objectify - two persistence frameworks, Kotori – a JUnit runner, Apple Guice – a case study GWT application, and Engine Watch – a GAE monitoring application for Android devices.
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New SOA-EERP Standards to Establish Service Quality, Rating and SLA
A new set of specifications from Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) End-to-End Resource Planning (EERP) technical committee allows to specify important characteristics of services such as business quality of service, service rating and business service agreement.
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Enterprise Customers Can Use Their Licenses to Run Windows Instances on EC2
Amazon extends their Windows VM offering, and offers customers the possibility to use their enterprise license to run Windows instances on EC2 through a pilot program consented with Microsoft. Microsoft is going to evaluate the results of the program, possibly offering the same license mobility in the future, and promises to support Windows VM on Azure some time this year.
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Engine Yard Introduces Commercial JRuby Support
Engine Yard, the employer of most of JRuby's core team, started offering commercial support for JRuby this week.
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The End of an Era: Scala Community Arrives, Java Deprecated
It was recently announced that InfoQ is creating a new Operations community. In addition to that, another major change which has been in the works for the last few months at InfoQ is the conversion of the Java community to the Scala community. InfoQ spoke with a prominent Scala expert and members of the former InfoQ Java editorial team to learn more about this change and why it was made.
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Business Rules Management - the Missing Link?
A new discussion in the blogosphere is bringing up the question of whether business rules should be used to dynamically guide business process execution.
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EclipseCon 2010 roundup
Last week, EclipseCon 2010 (in conjunction with OSGi DevCon 2010) was held in the Santa Clara Convention Centre. This year saw a number of Eclipse-related technologies and tutorials; so, what was the key take aways?
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MongoDB Growing Up: Release 1.4 and Commercial Support by 10gen
Shortly after the 1.4 release of MongoDB (from "humongous") on March 25th, its creator Dwight Merriman (former CEO/CTO of DoubleClick) announced that 10gen, the company behind the open-source document database will offer commercial training and support for the product. InfoQ spoke with Merriman about MongoDB, its features, applicability and place in the community of NoSQL databases.
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SQL Azure Unveils New Features and a Prototype Lab
SQL Azure will be rolling out new features over the next few months including MARS support, spatial data, and a 50 GB option. Also available is SQL Azure Labs, where previews of possible enhancements like OData Services will be showcased.
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Media Annotations Working Group Publishes Drafts
The W3C Media Annotations Working Group has recently posted drafts of its Ontology for Media Resource 1.0 and API for Media Resource 1.0 efforts. They have also updated the Use Cases document to reflect some of the intentions of these projects. The basic goal of the Working Group is to produce an API and domain model for handling the explosion of media content on the Web.
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The 4 KiB Sector Performance Issue
If using HDDs from Western Digital (WD) with the string "EARS" in the model name, poor performance may have been encountered. Normally HDDs store data with a sector size of 512 bytes; WD's Advanced Format Technology uses 4096 byte sectors. Alignment of data on disk is essential to get the best performance. It's also only a matter of time until other vendors ship disks with non-512-bytes sectors.
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Oracle Announces GlassFish Roadmap
Yesterday Oracle published the roadmap for GlassFish version 3 and the news is positive. GlassFish version 3.1, expected this year, will offer centralized admin, clustering and Coherence support.
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A New Addition to the InfoQ Family: The Operations Community
A 7th community has now joined the current 6 on InfoQ. When one looks at our existing queues, one sees a definitive pattern - we currently focus upon application development and architecture (.NET, Ruby, Java, SOA, Architecture) and also Agile techniques, primarily in the context of application development. However, what happens to that software once it's been developed?