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Making Sense of Large Amounts of Data with Pivot
Pivot, a Microsoft Live Labs project, is intended to help people make sense of large amounts of information by organizing it in such a way that one can easily navigate from top to bottom and back in an attempt to understand it or to find a particular piece of information.
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ThoughtWorks’ Developers Favor Distributed Version Control Systems
Martin Fowler has conducted a survey on ThoughtWorks’ software development mailing list to determine how some of the version control systems (VCS) are perceived by developers. He also wrote a review of most prominent VCSes comparing centralized and distributed systems.
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InfoQ User Survey Results
Back in January, InfoQ published a User Survey and asked for people to take a few minutes and fill it out. Our reasoning for doing so was pretty straightforward - we wanted to know how we could improve the InfoQ experience for you, the user. We were pleasantly surprised that within a few days of posting the survey we had received several thousand replies - these are the results of that survey.
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Dealing with REST Services Security
With REST gaining popularity for SOA implementations, the issue of REST services security becomes more and more important each day. In their article, Why REST security doesn't exist, Chris Comerford and Pete Soderling discuss approaches to securing REST services.
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Ruby 1.9.2 Release Schedule Aims at August for Final Release
Now that Ruby 1.9.2 passes all RubySpec tests, a revised release schedule for Ruby 1.9.2 has been announced. It aims at mid-August for the final release.
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MuleSoft's CloudCat Supports Web Application Deployment on Amazon EC2 and GoGrid Clouds
MuleSoft's cloud service offering of Apache Tomcat container, called CloudCat, provides a virtual image that allows developers and QA teams to build and test web applications in the cloud environment. MuleSoft recently announced CloudCat product availability and a partnership with cloud infrastructure hosting provider GoGrid.
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Revisiting Biases Against Open Source SOA Solutions
Ronald Schmelzer, a senior analyst at ZapThink revisits the common misconception/biases on the suitability of open source SOA solutions for the enterprise and asks “why is it then that so many IT organizations prematurely discard Open Source Software (OSS) from their SOA implementations?”
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Terracotta and Eucalyptus Integration Provides Data Management and Elastic Provisioning in the Cloud
Terracotta recently announced a partnership with open source private cloud platform vendor Eucalyptus that allows the companies to provision private clouds on Amazon AWS-compatible Eucalyptus cloud platform and take advantage of the elasticity and flexibility of the cloud.
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Emerging Industry SOA Best Practices
A new MITRE whitepaper documents a variety of best practices and key characteristics for a successful SOA implementation.
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SpringSource Announces TC Server Spring Edition
SpringSource has announced an updated TC Server Spring Edition. TC Server is SpringSource's Tomcat-based offering with enhanced monitoring and cloud provisioning capabilities. It focuses on making operations' and developers' lives better.
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QCon Live: What's Happening at QCon London This Week?
This week, the fourth annual QCon London is in progress. Starting on March 8th with tutorials and ending on March 12th with a "meet the speakers" social, there will be a lot happening. This article describes the many ways that readers can follow along with the events at QCon as they are happening.
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SOA Anti-Principles?
Much has been written about SOA Patterns and Anti-Patterns over the years, and while SOA Principles are well defined and documented, their Anti-Principles are typically ignored or overlooked. Steve Jones discusses the need for more effort to be put into anti-patterns and starts with a few of his own.
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OpenCredo Announces AMQP Support for Spring Integration
OpenCredo Ltd has announced support for talking to Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) based messagng servers from Spring Integration, a lightweight ESB-like messaging framework. The new support brings MOM vendors whose product doesn't support JMS to users of the Spring Integration framework. Some Message Queues, like RabbitMQ, are very scalable and don't support JMS.
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Versioning Strategies For RESTful Services
In this article Stu Charlton examines the various options available for versioning RESTful services which he prefaces by saying “These can be tricky concepts to describe, and I don't really want to write a small book on this topic”.
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OSGi DevCon London
Last week saw the first OSGi DevCon London, held in conjunction with JAX London in Hammersmith's Novotel. Topics included features from the upcoming OSGi Enterprise Expert Group publication, using and testing OSGi in the cloud, accessing objects through JPA on an OSGi system and how modularity can defeat complexity brought on by exponential software growth.