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Designing a REST-ful API Using Spring 3
Ben Hale explains how to design and test a RESTful API with Spring MVC, providing an example of a simple game application showing the design principles used.
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The Costs and Benefits of Building Hypermedia APIs (with Node.js)
Mike Amundsen discusses the theory behind building hypermedia APIs combined with real life cases exemplifying the successes and failures of such an endeavor.
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The FT Web App: Coding Responsively
Rob Shilston discusses the need for coding responsively, not just designing responsively, along with the development process in place at Financial Times.
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Designing Composite Services Using BPMN 2.0 as a Visual Programming Language
Lloyd Dugan discusses using the BPMN visual programming language for designing composite services and service orchestration.
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Building Cloudy Services
Anne Thomas Manes discusses principles for designing cloud-aware services: Latency Aware, Instrumented, Failure Aware, Event Driven, Parallelizable, Resource Consumption Aware, Automated.
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Escape From Amazon: Tips/Techniques for Reducing AWS Dependencies
Soam Acharya presents a case study of a business which relied heavily on AWS and had to reduce its dependencies on it, including tips for avoiding cloud lock-in.
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Lean Data Architecture: Minimize Investment, Maximize Value
Manvir Singh Grewal and Brandon Byars propose a business intelligence workflow along with Lean principles and practices for implementing a data warehouse and reporting capability.
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Storm: Distributed and Fault-Tolerant Real-time Computation
Nathan Marz introduces Twitter Storm, outlining its architecture and use cases, and takes a look at future features to be made available.
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Community Management: The Next Wave of SOA Governance and API Management
Tim Hall discusses compares and contrasts SOA Governance and API Management, explaining why he believes they will evolve into a new discipline called “Community Management”.
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Faster, Cheaper Identity Management through Loose Coupling – the LIMA Approach
Ganesh Prasad discusses the essentials of the loosely-coupled identity management approach called LIMA,
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Transactions for the REST of Us
Cesare Pautasso and Guy Pardon propose a way of implementing transactions over HTTP using REST and the Try-Confirm/Cancel protocol.
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How Percona Helps MySQL Succeed in the Cloud
Koa McCullough presents best practices for running Percona Server and MySQL in the cloud, cloud backups using EBS, Xtrabackup and S3, using Percona Toolkit to simplify operations, and XtraDB Cluster.