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Building Scalable Applications in .NET: Introducing the FatDB Distributed Computing Platform
Justin Weiler introduces FatDB, a NoSQL DB and a distributed platform built on Mission Oriented Architecture meant to abstract and generalize the essential characteristics of enterprise applications.
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Peter Kriens Returns to OSGi Alliance
Peter Kriens, one of the driving forces behind OSGi, announced his return to the OSGi Alliance, where he served as director for 11 years until early 2012. InfoQ caught up with Peter to discuss his return, OSGi, and his latest project jpm4j.
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Securely Managed API Technologies Key to Fostering Market Innovation
Web services offer distinct go-to-market velocity in terms of real-time innovation, but requires new standards in the way APIs are secured and managed and the nature in which APIs communicate between organizations at the B2B enterprise gateway level.
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Correctly Building Asynchronous Libraries in .NET
Building an asynchronous library requires very specific design patterns that can be quite different from the patterns used when consuming an asynchronous library. But if you follow some basic rules you can greatly improve the experience for the consumers of your libraries.
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G1: One Garbage Collector To Rule Them All
Many articles describe how a poorly tuned garbage collector can bring an application's SLA commitments to its knees. Oracle's new G1 Collector in HotSpot moves away from the conventional GC model, where a Java heap splits into (contiguous) young and old generations, and instead introduces the concept of “regions”, for a generally more performant and manageable GC.
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From Groovy to Java 8
From new syntax for functional programming styles, to lambdas, collection streaming, and method references as first class citizens, Groovy developers will have an edge when writing Java code in the future. This article will focus on the commonalities between Groovy and Java 8, and will demonstrate how familiar Groovy concepts translate to Java 8.
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The Virtual Tug of War
Technology professionals have always fought an unrelenting war not dissimilar to feud between the Hatfields and McCoys – a continuous conflict with no winners. In the world of IT, this is a battle over security and performance fought by security professionals and network administrators. These two factions have always had to barter and maintain an uneasy truce in organizations in order to survive.
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The Technology behind Codenvy. An Interview with Tyler Jewell, CEO
Codenvy is an online IDE supporting applications development in Java, JavaScript, HTML5, PHP, Ruby and other languages, with built-in support for deploying the apps on a PaaS. This article includes an interview with Tyler Jewell, CEO, detailing some of the technologies behind Codenvy.
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Zato - Python-based ESB and Backend Application Server
Zato is an open-source ESB and application server written in Python. It is designed to integrate systems in SOA and to build backend applications (i.e. API only).
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Windows and Line of Business Applications: No Good Options
At Build 2013 Microsoft unveiled a number of new features that make the WinRT platform more interesting for developers working on LOB applications, but without a deployment story WinRT simply isn’t viable. Meanwhile WPF, like Silverlight and WinForms, has entered its twilight phase.
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Apache MetaModel – Providing Uniform Data Access Across Various Data Stores
MetaModel - an Apache Incubator project – is a Java library used to browse, query and update various types of data stores including traditional SQL databases, unusual stores such as CSV or Excel, or the more modern NoSQL stores in a uniform and programmatic way.
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A Test Strategy for Enterprise Integration Points
This article introduces a commonly applicable testing strategy for integration points, which improves the coverage, speed, reliability and reproducibility of testing, and thus could be used as a reference for implementing and testing integration-heavy applications.