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Windows Domain to Amazon EC2 Single Sign-On Access Solutions
David Chappell, the Principal of Chappell & Associates, US, has written a whitepaper proposing several solutions for Single Sign-on (SSO) access to applications deployed on Amazon EC2 from a Windows domain. InfoQ explored these solutions to understand what the benefits and tradeoffs each one presented.
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What Are the Trends in Technology Today?
ThoughtWorks has released the Technology Radar 2010 this month, a white paper containing ThoughtWorks' technology strategy and trends in four major domains: Techniques, Tools, Languages, and Platforms. InfoQ looked at this whitepaper in depth to better understand the ideas and suggestions being offered by ThoughtWorks.
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InfoQ User Survey - 11 Questions to Help Us
As an InfoQ reader, we have a small favour to ask of you; we’re trying to learn more about our members and we have a survey with 11 questions on it to help us in our content, redesign, and business efforts. We're interested in how you use the site, what type of content you find interesting, and more about your background. This survey is anonymous and your replies will be kept confidential.
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Decoupling Your Application From Your Dependency Injection Framework
Dependency Injection has become a much more accepted and accessible approach in recent years, driven by many factors including increased popularity in SOA, TDD, and many other factors. With this has come increased usage of Dependency Injection frameworks. Bob Martin advises, with examples, applying a decoupling approach between your application code and your Dependency Injection framework.
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Microsoft is Making a Play for MySQL Users
Microsoft has released its first community tech preview for a MySQL to SQL Server migration tool. This tool supports SQL Server 2005, 2008, and Azure.
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Gremlin, a Language for Working with Graphs
Gremlin is a Turing Complete programming language useful for working with graphs. It is a Java DSL that makes extensive use of XPath to query, analyze and manipulate graphs.
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A Step Toward Better Cloud Security: Searchable Encryption
In a whitepaper entitled Cryptographic Cloud Storage, Seny Kamara and Kristin Lauter from the Microsoft Research Cryptography Group, propose a "virtual private storage service" offered by public clouds using new cryptographic techniques.
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QCon London in 2 Months: Skype, Facebook Case studies; QCon iPhone App
The 4th annual QCon London is just 2 months away! 75% of the schedule is now live including case studies from Facebook, Skype, sky.com, and dozens more. The next discount deadline to register expires tomorrow. QCon this year has an iPhone app! Search for 'QCon Guide' in the AppStore.
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Is Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed and Suffering from Internal Network Latency?
There have been various reports from the community of Amazon EC2 users, that their instances are suffering poor performance, as the result of high internal network latency. This has led to speculations that Amazon's Cloud might be getting oversubscribed.
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Business-Driven SOA
A new whitepaper from the SOA consortium defines business driven SOA and the role of business architecture in its implementation. It also repositions business architecture from a collection of artifacts required for implementing IT solutions to a comprehensive approach to the entire business design.
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Google Wants to Administer the First White Spaces Database
Google proposes to FCC to become the administrator of a White Spaces Database containing geo-location information about devices using the free channels in the radio spectrum.
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80legs Is a Web Crawling Service
80legs is a web crawling service running on a distributed grid of 50,000 computers, spidering the web at a rate of 2 billion pages/day, and analyzing the content found.
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Azure Feature Voting Results
While voting is still open, there are some clear front-runners for the most needed features. The vote is being run by Mike Wickstrand, Senior Director of Product Planning for Windows Azure, and hosted at www.MyGreatWindowsAzureIdea.com. Of the top 6 items, there are four requests for making Azure cheaper in various scenarios, a request for .NET 4.0 support, and the need for sending email.
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Information Can Be Sold and Bought in “Dallas”
Microsoft’s service codename “Dallas” is an information marketplace bringing together data, imagery and service providers and their consumers facilitating information exchange through a single point of access.
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Plura, a SETI-like Distributed Grid
Plura Processing is a SETI-like distributed network harnessing the power of tens of thousands of computers.