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Availability, the Cloud and Everything
Joe Williams discusses how distributed systems, cloud computing and configuration management affect system’s availability. He exemplifies with a database service built on CouchDB, Erlang, Chef, EC2.
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Architecting the Ultimate Control-Point-Advanced Cyber-Threat Mitigation
Blake Dournaee presents Intel’s Service Gateway, a security control point meant to secure on-premise and in the cloud .NET/Java-based web services from various security threats.
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Using a Service Bus to Connect the Supply Chain
Peter Paul van de Beek presents a case study of using an ESB in a supply channel, the context and challenges faced, the solution chosen and its implementation, how it worked out and lessons learned.
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What's New in Spring-WS 2.0?
Arjen Poutsma introduces Spring-WS, and shows what’s new in Spring-WS 2.0 using demos: an improved @Endpoint model, Spring 3 and Java 5++ support, full streaming, and integration test support.
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Scaling Australia's Most Popular Online News Sites with Ehcache
A real-world experience of implementing Ehcache at Australia's most visited online news site. How to deal with high traffic, concurrency, and how to implement linear scalability.
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Spring AMQP
Matthias Radestock introduces messaging, AMQP and RabbitMQ. Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack present and demo Spring AMQP, an abstraction layer for using AMQP independently from the broker implementation.
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DevOps for Business - Lessons Learned
Stephen Nelson-Smith shares the lessons learned by implementing Agile/Lean practices by both the development and operations team responsible for the creation and maintenance of a UK governmental site.
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Adopting Apache Cassandra
Eben Hewitt introduces the Apache Cassandra project to those interested in getting a quick clear picture of what Cassandra is, what are its main features, what is the the data model used and the API.
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Service Component Architecture – State of the Union
Clemens Utschig-Utschig presents the Service Component Architecture (SCA), the component model used, best development practices, and the current status of the specification.
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Resurrecting SOA
Anne Thomas Manes redefines SOA based on the SOA Manifesto, focusing on models, methodologies and patterns, not on technology, intended to produce the desired business and technical goals.
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Tomorrow’s Tech Today: HTML5
Scott Davis reviews some of the most important HTML5 features: semantic elements (header, footer, nav, section, and article), form enhancements, video and mobile support, already in use today.
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Hidden Web Services: Microformats and the Semantic Web
Scott Davis makes a case for semantic data, pointing out that it is currently used by major websites to improve their traffic, presenting 2 ways to add metadata to a document: RDFa and microformats.