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NewRelic Offers Free Rails Monitoring, Adds New Features
NewRelic now offers their Rails performance monitoring (RPM) Lite product free of charge for all Rails users. A host of new features were added to the various commercial versions of RPM.
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Is There a Symbiosis Between SOA and DDD?
As the complexity of the real-life problems grows, it becomes obvious that in order to solve them, it is often necessary to combine multiple techniques. One example of a good symbiotic relationship is that between Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Domain Driven Design (DDD).
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Microsoft's CSS Extensions
Microsoft has outlined the CSS extensions whose support has changed in IE 8.
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DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0 (final) released
DataNucleus, the successor to the Java Persistence Platform JPOX, has released DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0.0 which provides access to a range of datastores for Java applications using JDO/JPA API's.
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Architecture Life Span:Implications on Business and how to build more Long-lasting Architecture
Introducing the concept of architectural shelf life, Dan Pritchett defines the average duration of an architectural life span. Stressing that failing to evolve the architecture at the end of its life span may have important business implications, he provides some advices that aim at facilitating architecture update with new technologies and patterns, thus making architectures last longer.
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Enterprise Web Conf: WOI, REST, and Mashups in New York Oct 28 & London Oct 30
InfoQ and ProgrammableWeb.com have teamed up to bring you a one-day conference covering the emerging theory and practices behind RESTful SOA and Enterprise Mashups, called the 'Enterprise Web'. The event covers the emerging trends of web oriented integration/architecture, web as a platform, mashups, REST, and more.
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Quest for True SOA
In his new article Alex Maclinovsky describes a concept of Aspect-Based SOA infrastructure. He starts from the rational for such platform and uses several examples to demonstrate the advantages of such architecture. He also explains how this platform can directly support desired SOA governance, through introduction of additional aspects, directly supporting compliance to the enterprise policies.
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Oslo Unveiled
As the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 draws near, Douglas Purdy, Don Box and others are dropping some information about Microsoft Oslo.
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Extended Rails Exception Monitoring with Exceptional and Hoptoad
The Rails plugin ExceptionNotifier made Exception monitoring easy. Two companies (Exceptional and Hoptoad) extend this by providing a third party service that intercept exceptions and track them in a web interface. We talked to Eoghan McCabe from Exceptional and Matt Jankowski from Hoptoad.
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MS Enterprise Library Open Source
Microsoft has changed the license for the source code of version 4.0 of the Enterprise Library, now released under the open-source friendly MS-PL. The code is available through the Patterns & Practices CodePlex community.
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Fibers Roundup: NeverBlock Now Rails Compatible, "Poor Man's" Fibers For 1.8
NeverBlock released a new version of their library - this time with support for Rails and Ruby 1.8. The 1.8 support uses Amun Gupta's "Poor Man's" Fiber code which implements Fibers using Threads.
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SOA Adopting WOA?
Dion Hinchcliffe writes about how SOA and WOA are actually more complimentary than competitive. According to Dion, adopting a WOA-based approach offers a lower entry barrier to developers as well as advantages over more traditional approaches to SOA. Dion believes that WOA is not synonymous with REST and that much of the anti-WOA debate is due to SOA vendors and pundits "protecting their turf".
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Interview: Joseph Hill About Important Developments in Mono
In this interview made by Greg Young of InfoQ, Joseph Hill talks about the current status of Mono, the release of Mono 2.0, and important developments related to Mono like Cecil, MoMA, and Moonlight.
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Article: More Than Just Spin (Up) - Virtualization for the Enterprise and SaaS
A new InfoQ case study takes a look at how the benefits of virtualization can be harnessed inside enterprise data centers to increase reliability, ease maintenance, and enable Saas deployments.
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Oracle Set To Acquire ClearApp
Oracle enters into an agreement to acquire ClearApp, a provider of application management solutions for SOA-based applications