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Jags Ramnarayan on In-Memory Data Grids
In-memory data grids (IMDG) are gaining lot of attention recently because of their support for dynamic scalability and high performance for data intensive applications. InfoQ spoke with Jags Ramnarayan, Chief Architect for GemFire products at VMWare, about the architecture of in-memory data grids, their advantages compared to the traditional databases, and emerging trends in this space.
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Results from InfoQ 2012 User Survey
In February, we launched the 2012 InfoQ User survey to gauge community interest in various topics, technologies, and practices. 2,850 people completed the survey, with thousands of respondents providing detailed feedback on their areas of interest. The following report summarizes some of our key findings, things that surprised us, and reactions/analysis from members of the InfoQ editorial team.
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Welcome to the Future, Your PaaS has Arrived
This Article by Lucas and Adron dives into NoOps, DevOps, and how they relate to PaaS. Then with a short context description of what led to this technology it takes a look at the premier open source solution Cloud Foundry - what makes it tick, the architecture, and a simple deployment of an application. Along the way it also steps into the core concepts behind Platform as a Service.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2012
This article presents the main takeaway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged or tweeted about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Tutorials, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Agile Adoption, Big Data and NoSQL, Cross Platform Mobile, Highly-available systems, Java Platform (hard-core Java) and many more!
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Lessons For IT From The Early Days of the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover is a controversial name in history, but his experiences building and running one of the key intelligence agencies in the world are very applicable to running IT organizations today.
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Steven Renders on Microsoft Dynamics NAV
We interviewed Steven Renders, author of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting. Dynamics NAV is a nearly 30 year old Enterprise Resource Planning platform that currently boasts over 300,000 users across 42 countries.
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Anil Gaur on Cloud Computing Support in Java EE 7
Java EE 7 specification includes support for cloud computing to help developers build applications that are portable across Java EE PaaS platforms. InfoQ spoke with Anil Gaur, Vice President of Software Development at Oracle, about cloud computing support in Java EE 7, project road map and timeline, cloud API in Java EE 7, and cloud development and deployment tools.
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The Need to Focus on App Delivery Lifecycle in PaaS
An App Delivery Platform-as-a-Service is not only a development platform. It is also a social platform, a deployment platform, and a user engagement platform. An App Delivery Platform-asa-Service is all about delivering apps that perfectly fit the business, it’s about creating business value, it’s about enabling the business to be successful!
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Martin Odersky on Typesafe Stack and the Future of Scala
In this interview with InfoQ's Editor in Chief, Michael Floyd, Martin Odersky draws the comparisons between F# and Scala, discusses the future of Scala, and addresses once and for all the question of breaking binary compatibility. He also discusses his current work on the implementation of the value class proposal, how Java might support functional programming and the new Typesafe Stack 2.0.
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Healthy Architectures - Using CQRS and Event Sourcing for Electronic Medical Records
The health care industry has been migrating to electronic medical/health records (EMR/EHR) for some time. Hopwever, problems such as performance and scalability, along with maintaining traceability and reconstructing healthcare related business events need to be addressed. The article introduces the use of techniques and patterns for providing these quality attributes.
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Optimizing ORM Performance
Some developers dislike using object-relational mappers (ORMs) as they’ve had bad experiences with performance. This article covers some basic techniques to optimize the performance when working with an ORM and still getting all the benefits of Object-Relational mapping.
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Generating Avro Schemas from XML Schemas Using JAXB
Apache Avro is an up and coming binary marshalling framework. In his new article Benjamin Fagin explains how one can leverage existing XSD tooling to create data definitions and then use XJC plugin to directly generate AVRO schemes and marshaling classes.