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Interview and Book Review: Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, 2nd Edition
The book "Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond" covers the software architecture documentation and how to express an architecture so that the developers can design, build and maintain a system from it. InfoQ spoke with Paulo Merson, co-author of the book on software architecture documentation and how it can help the design of software applications.
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Finding the Right Data Solution for Your Application in the Data Storage Haystack
With the recent NoSQL movement there are several alternative data storage solutions available compared to the traditional relational databases. In this article, author Srinath Perera discusses the various data storage options and what to consider when choosing each of these solutions.
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How REST replaced SOAP on the Web: What it means to you
The number of REST APIs has grown dramatically over the last 5 years. However, most developers are still struggling to find an agreed upon definition of a RESTful Architecture leading to a lot of inconsistencies in the way these APIs are implemented. This article details how Mule iON, an Integration Platform as a Service, provides a consistent way to expose APIs and API mashups.
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.NET Static Analysis and Parasoft dotTEST
Static analysis has a broad set of capabilities to offer the .NET world. It can enforce pattern-based rules, whether they're based on proven standards or custom patterns that help you identify application-specific defects. Nevertheless, some defects cannot be detected by this analysis technique. The flow analysis feature of dotTEST does exactly that.
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Virtual Panel: SOA and Cloud Computing
SOA and Cloud computing experts discuss relationships between SOA and Cloud computing, principles and technologies they can/should share, the applications that can best leverage combining SOA and Cloud computing and the things that are the most important for Cloud computing success.
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F# mobile development with WebSharper
Functional programming languages can lead to novel ways of thinking about application development. There is just something about using a different paradigm that puts engineering problems into a new context. In such a spirit, Adam Granicz shows how F# and WebSharper can be used to tame mobile development.
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Active Architecture for Agile Projects
Active Architecture is a type of documentation that helps to bridge the gap between User Stories in Agile Projects and large design deliverables on Traditional projects. It leverages the power and simplicity of User Stories. Unlike traditional design documentation that defines the structure or passive state of the design, Active Architecture defines the actions or active state of the design.
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Interview: François-Régis Sinot on Opa, a Web Development Platform
An interview with François-Régis Sinot, an architect working on Opa which is a web development platform including a language, a built-in web server, database and distributed execution engine.
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The Problem with Cloud-Computing Standardization
In this IEEE article, author Sixto Ortiz Jr. discusses the issues and challenges we are facing in cloud computing standardization. He also compares the cloud-computing standards proposed by organizations like Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), IEEE, Open Grid Forum, OASIS, and Storage Networking Industry Association.
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Interview with Rob Linton, author of “Amazon Web Services: Migrating your .NET Enterprise Application”
A new "Amazon Web Services : Migrating your .NET Enterprise Application" book by Rob Linton provides a deep insight into Amazon Web Services (AWS) covering a wide spectrum of topics from describing AWS components and their role in applications architecture to step-by-step instructions on setting and configuring each AWS component . InfoQ spoke with by Rob Linton about his book.
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DIY SOA: How to build your own Simple Service Repository
One of the prerequisites for successful SOA implementations is service repository–a place to store and track changes of the existing Services portfolio. In his article Ben Wilcock describes shortcomings of existing commercial and open source implementation and proposes a simple Service Registry implementation. He also outlines how such repository can be leveraged is SOA delivery process.
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Understanding Cloud Computing Vulnerabilities
In this IEEE article, authors Bernd Grobauer, Tobias Walloschek and Elmar Stöcker discuss the cloud computing security and cloud-specific vulnerabilities using the vulnerability definition from the Open Group's risk taxonomy.