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Comparing Amazon's EC2, Google's App Engine and Microsoft's Azure
The weather forecast changed when Microsoft entered the clouds with the Azure platform during PDC 2008. It would be interesting to compare the three major offerings existing on the market today, Amazon's, Google's and Microsoft's, and at the first glance it seems that they are not really competing against each other.
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Python Has Wrapped Itself Around Windows Azure
Sriram Krishnan, a Microsoft Program Manager, has written a Python wrapper for Windows Azure Data Storage. Python is one of the languages supported by Windows Azure.
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Is CEP a pre-requisite for EDA or SOA?
There has been a lot of discussion recently on the relationship between CEP EDA and SOA. This article excerpts some of these discussions in the community.
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Article: Java FX Technology Preview
InfoQ takes a look at the JavaFX preview release and talks to Sun Staff Engineer Joshua Marinacci about version 1 expected this autumn.
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Interview: Steven "Doc" List About Open Spaces
In this interview made by InfoQ's Greg Young, Steven "Doc" List talks about Open Space conferences, a way of running meetings of groups of various sizes by facilitating self organizing the sessions.
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Geneva Manages Your Identity
Microsoft has released Geneva Beta 1, previously known as Zermatt, an identity management solution which takes the burden of authenticating and authorizing users away from applications. Geneva supports the OASIS WS-Trust specification.
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How a Modeling Language Should Look Like and where UML Stands with Regard to this?
Based on the book Domain Specific Modeling by S. Kelly and J.-P. Tolvanen, the author of Learning Lisp blog exposed some thoughts on how a modeling language should look like and where UML stands with regard to this. While it appears that UML doesn’t provide enough precision and high enough level of abstraction, another blogger suggests a different approach that may allow its successful use in MDD.
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Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Beta1 Published
Microsoft's patterns & practices group has published Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Beta1, a book containing principles, patterns and practices for designing the architecture of applications built on the .NET Framework. The intended audience is solution architects and development leaders.
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InfoQ Brazil Launches
InfoQ Brazil (http://www.infoq.com/br) is now officially launched! All InfoQ daily news & articles will be translated henceforth, with additional local news, articles, and videos produced by the Brazilian community on an ongoing basis. InfoQ Brazil launched officially this weekend, and has already gotten over 6700 pageviews in the last couple of days.
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Spring Integration RC1 hatched: Q&A with Iwein Fuld on key benefits, deployment & future directions
Spring Integration provides an extension of the Spring programming model to support the well-known Enterprise Integration Patterns. Following the announcement of RC 1 that became available this week InfoQ has a Q&A with SpringSource’s Iwein Fuld on key benefits, deployment scenarios and future directions of Spring Integration.
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The Architecture of Multi-Enterprise Business Applications
Jack Greenfield gave a presentation at the last PDC on the architecture of Multi-Enterprise Business Applications. He sees MEBAs as being applicable to a large number of industries and processes. In the presentation he introduced a MEBA model-driven framework that his team has set out to build.
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QCon San Francisco a Few Weeks Way: 100 Speakers in 17 Tracks!
The second annual QCon San Francisco conference is coming up in just a few weeks; this year we've got over 100 speakers in 17 tracks covering the key topics of importance in enterprise software development. With speakers such as Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Rod Johnson, Bob Martin, this is the biggest QCon yet.
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Event Stream Processing: Scalable Alternative to Data Warehouses?
Dan Pritchett suggests that analyzing streams of events using Event Stream Processor could be an interesting alternative solution to data warehousing applications, which have, in his opinion, important downsides in terms of cost, scalability and reactivity.
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Open Source Usage Was Quantified Across Enterprise
The Open Source Census (OSC) has recently published a report meant to reveal the usage of open source software across the enterprise and across the world. Governments and financial services companies are leading the list, and Europe uses more open source software than all others, including US.
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A VPN for Cloud Computing
Security is the gating factor for preventing Enterprise Cloud adoption, argues CohesiveFT's CTO, Patrick Kerpan. His company just released the first VPN for the Cloud to enable Enterprise customers to secure three kinds of topologies: Cloud, Cloud-to-Cloud and Enterprise-to-Cloud.