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Book Excerpt and Interview: Tuscany SCA in Action
A new "Tuscany SCA in Action" book by Simon Laws, Mark Combellack, Raymond Feng, Haleh Mahbod and Simon Nash provides a simple step-by-step guide on how to develop applications leveraging SCA and Apache Tuscany.
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Data Mining in the Swamp: Taming Unruly Data With Cloud Computing
Matrix presents a white paper on using the open source tool, Hadoop, to implement the MapReduce strategy and a Cloud computing strategy to solve business intelligence problems.
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Catching up with Nuxeo: Switching from Python to Java
Back in 2006 InfoQ covered a story about Nuxeo, an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) specialist company, who had announced that it was changing its core technology platform from Python to Java. Four years on we caught up with Eric Barroca, CEO at Nuxeo, to find out how that conversion went, and to explore their new technology stack and position in the ECM industry.
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Working with the Product Backlog
Roman Pichler discusses the product backlog along with techniques for effectively grooming it. Complicated applications of the product backlog are covered as well as how to handle nonfunctional requirements and how to scale a product backlog for large projects. This is a chapter excerpt from Roman's book: Agile Product Management with Scrum.
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Ars Magna: the revolution is overdue
This essay is an intentionally provocative and controversial call for a real revolution in how we conceive of and practice software development. The intent is to stimulate discussion.
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Patterns In The Context of SOA Business Services
In this article Michael Poulin explores the different contexts in which SOA patterns are applied; how the products from different vendors influence these patterns and its effect on the responsibilities of business and IT. One such product is the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB); Michael evaluates a few patterns related the ESB products and their application under different contexts.
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DSL Interaction with Program Transformation in TXL
This article discusses a proposed solution for solving the interaction problem between two Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) using TXL and dot programming languages and Graphviz graph visualization tool. TXL allows the developers to concentrate on data analysis and information processing aspects by making the other tasks like source text parsing and results formatting effortless.
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A Blend of Java and Ruby - The Mirah Language
Mirah is a new language for the JVM that can do everything the Java language can do - but with a Ruby-ish syntax and powerful metaprogramming. InfoQ talks to Mirah's creator Charles Nutter.
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Virtual Panel: The Node.js Ecosystem - Frameworks, Libraries and Best Practices
Node.js is a server side framework based on top of Google’s V8 JavaScript Engine, that aims to assist developers in building highly scalable network programs, by using evented, non-blocking I/O. InfoQ had a virtual panel with the creators of some of the most popular 3rd party libraries and frameworks that utilize Node.js.
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Eight Quick Ways to Improve Java Legacy Systems
Even Java systems can be "legacy" systems. This article explores 8 quick and relatively low risk ways to improve even the crustiest Java application. Applications that may have previously been written off as dead can find new life by using these tips to improve performance, reduce operations overhead and grease the gears of the development lifecycle.
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A collaborative approach for real-world BPM
Bernd Ruecker explores how to achieve a better Business-IT alignment when developing BPM solutions. He describes a methodology which uses BPMN-based process model as center for collaboration where users can discuss and link requirements, business rules or other artifacts, visualize development status, specify business driven test scenarios and much more.
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Book Excerpt and Interview: Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide
Boris Lublinsky interviews Prabhakar Chaganti and Rich Helms as part of a review of their new book, Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide. The book provides a simple step-by-step guide on how to develop applications for Amazon Simple DB in different programming languages including Java, PHP, and Python.