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Debate: The Annoying Detail
Uncle Bob and Simon Brown debate on the infrastructure’s role in drawing a system’s architecture.
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Making Sense of the Social Web with Microsoft Social Analytics (Vancouver)
Microsoft is making available a cloud service called Social Analytics for users interested in analyzing Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, etc. in order to get insight on the trends on the social web.
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Practical SOA for Solution Architects
A new WSO2 white paper entitled “Practical SOA for the Solution Architect" describes a practical approach to designing and implementing a SOA system while realizing the full SOA benefits.
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Cassandra 1.0.0. Is Ready for the Enterprise
Apache has announced the release of Cassandra 1.0.0, the first major milestone of the distributed column-based data store coming with data compression and several performance improvements and optimizations.
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HealthVault Update Continues Microsoft Investment in Electronic Medical Records
Microsoft HealthVault, the web-based solution launched in 2007 for electronic medical records, recently released new capabilities for end users and platform developers. This release introduced incremental changes to a maturing offering in this emerging area of healthcare IT.
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AWS Targets Scientific Community with New Resources for High Performance Computing
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) team announced a set of resources targeting the high performance computing needs of the scientific community. AWS specifically highlights their “spot pricing” market as a way to do cost-effective, massive scale computing in Amazon cloud environment.
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Amazon’s New Browser, Silk, Is Using a Split Architecture
Amazon has created Silk, a WebKit-based browser using SPDY to maintain a single connection with services hosted on AWS where web pages are preloaded and prepared for being pushed to the device. The effect: faster browsing, less device power consumption and better security.
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Architectural Mirages
We have lived through many unfounded architectural promises. In his recent post William Vambenepe discusses another one – sharing a single API amongst many UI/Ajax consumers.
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Zachman's Views On Impact Of Cloud Computing On Enterprise Architecture
John Zachman, the originator of the Zachman framework, recently wrote an article that addresses the questions regarding the impact of cloud computing on enterprise architecture; especially given how disruptive and popular cloud architectures are becoming an effective technique to cut costs.
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SEI Releases Smart Grid Maturity Model Update
At the GridWeek 2011 Conference the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at the Carnegie-Mellon-University has released an update 1.2 of its Smart Grid Maturity Model (SGMM).
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Latest Release of Zachman Framework Highlights Its Role as an Ontology
John Zachman, considered one of the fathers of the Enterprise Architecture discipline, recently released the third edition of his popular framework. This version included some minor text updates, improved graphics and a subtle effort to re-classify this artifact as an ontology instead of a framework.
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SOA Gateway: A Lightweight, Low-Cost Alternative to the ESB
Jaime Ryan in an article for ComputerWorld recommends the replacement of ESBs with lower-cost, easy-to-use and lightweight modern SOA gateways which fulfill not only the typical ESB functional requirements but also add non-functional capabilities. InfoQ spoke to Jaime Ryan to present his detailed analysis behind this reasoning.
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Does Anybody Listen? - Podcasts related to Architecture Topics
Keeping up to date on software architecture is difficult, because only a few information sources cover this important area explicitly. Of course, Online Services like InfoQ offer a lot of information on software architecture and design. But what about learning in your spare time,for instance when you are commuting or during your running exercise? Can audio podcasts provide an appropriate solution?
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"Apache Killer" a DDoS using the Range HTTP Header
The "Apache Killer" lets an attacker use a single PC to wage a denial of service attack against an Apache server. So far, the Apache development team has issued an alert and workarounds in advance of rolling out a patch for the flaw in Apache HTTPD Web Server 1.3 and 2.X, but no patches.
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"A standard becomes successful when people don’t talk about it anymore" says OMG's Soley
OMG CEO Richard Soley in a recent interview shares his observations on hype cycle effects on adoption patterns and how it may affect cloud computing like it did SOA. He extolls some virtues of cloud computing for startups and also explains why it may still not be as big a deal for larger businesses, despite the hype.