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Registration of Rights - A Visionary Public SOA-Project
Henrik Hvid Jensen presents a SOA project meant to digitalize the registration of land property rights in Denmark, pointing to the architecture used, services and the registration process.
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CouchDB
CouchDB is a schema-free document database. But now that the NoSQL movement is in full swing, there are several document databases to choose from, so why choose Couch?
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League of Legends: Scaling to Millions of Ninjas, Yordles, and Wizards
Scott Delap and Randy Stafford explain the architectural decisions made in order to scale, monitor and operate the game League of Legends, bringing insight on how they use Oracle Coherence for that.
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Implementing SOA through Linked Data
Thomas Bandholtz explains how Linked Data can be used to implement SOA in order to make datasets available throughout the enterprise, crosslink distributed datasets, and to master data management.
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Get Satisfaction Uses Ruby on Rails and Cloud Computing Platform to Achieve Scalability and Reliability
Thor Muller presents how Get Satisfaction managed to reliably scale their Ruby on Rails-based customer community platform using Agile, TDD, BDD, and by deploying their framework in the cloud.
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Failures and Successes with Reuse
Herbjörn Wilhelmsen discusses the reasons why an SOA project failed while trying to reuse existing resources, and how it succeeded later starting from the same business case with reuse in mind.
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Using Spring with NoSQL Databases
Mark Pollack and Chris Richardson discuss NoSQL, exemplifying with Redis, Cassandra and MongoDB, and Spring Data, a project meant to provide a unified programming model for accessing NoSQL DBs.
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BPM with REST
Cesare Pautasso discusses the conceptual relationship between business processes and stateful RESTful services, showing how BPM can be used to design and implement hypermedia-based services.
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The New Silos: Build Once, Deploy Anywhere?
Dr. Toufic Boubez discusses the status of cloud computing and the siloes being formed at the infrastructure level, emphasizing the need for enterprise mobility, and offering some mobility models.
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Heresy & Heretical Open Source: A Heretic's Perspective
Douglas Crockford presents a debate existing around XML and JSON, and the negative effect of the Intellectual Property laws on open source software.
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Riak Core: Dynamo Building Blocks
Andy Gross discusses the design philosophy behind Riak based on Amazon Dynamo - Gossip Protocol, Consistent Hashing, Vector clocks, Read Repair, etc. -, overviewing its main features and architecture.
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Swarm Computing - Next Generation Clouds and the Role of SOA
Jürgen Kress discusses the current status and the future of cloud computing, and the role of SOA in creating a cloud computing infrastructure, plus some of the cloud offerings existing today.