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Distributed STM - A New Programming Model for the Cloud
Cyprien Noel discusses distributed transactional memories along with ObjectFabric, a Java server based on eXtensible Software Transactional Memory, an OS library for concurrent and distributed apps.
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Using APIs to Connect People to Your App and Each Other
John Sheehan discusses web hooks and explores 3 cloud services: SendGrid’s Parse API for processing email, Twilio’s API for making phone calls and SMS, and Tok’s OpenTok API for web video conference.
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Building Scalable Systems: an Asynchronous Approach
Theo Schlossnagle expresses his opinion on Big Data, NoSQL, cloud, system architecture and design, then he discusses the benefit of using asynchronous queues for building scalable systems.
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Enterprise Apps in 2011 and Beyond
Adrian Colyer discusses the current trends in cloud computing, covering especially PaaS with a reference at Cloud Foundry, and focusing on how it impacts enterprise application design and development.
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Going to the Cloud
Jim Lepianka discusses how to prepare the enterprise to move to the cloud through consolidation, optimization, automation, and orchestration.
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Java without the GC Pauses: Keeping Up with Moore’s Law and Living in a Virtualized World
Gil Tene presents current trends in application memory, the problems with garbage collectors along with some related metrics, and how can Java prosper in a virtual world.
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Remediation Patterns - How to Achieve Low Risk Releases
Jez Humble presents remediation patterns based on prevention, low risk release through automate provisioning and deployment plus dev/test/ops collaboration, and incremental delivery.
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Netflix’s Cloud Data Architecture
Siddharth Anand overviews Netflix’s business model, then he explains why they chose Amazon AWS, and how they moved their data into the cloud using a NoSQL solution.
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The Future of Java EE
Jerome Dochez unveils the features planned for Java EE 7: Cloud Computing support, Modularity enhancements, richer Web Tier – Web Socket, HTML5, JSON-, JMS 2.0, and JPA 2.1, plus the roadmap.
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Get Satisfaction Uses Ruby on Rails and Cloud Computing Platform to Achieve Scalability and Reliability
Thor Muller presents how Get Satisfaction managed to reliably scale their Ruby on Rails-based customer community platform using Agile, TDD, BDD, and by deploying their framework in the cloud.
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The New Silos: Build Once, Deploy Anywhere?
Dr. Toufic Boubez discusses the status of cloud computing and the siloes being formed at the infrastructure level, emphasizing the need for enterprise mobility, and offering some mobility models.
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Riak Core: Dynamo Building Blocks
Andy Gross discusses the design philosophy behind Riak based on Amazon Dynamo - Gossip Protocol, Consistent Hashing, Vector clocks, Read Repair, etc. -, overviewing its main features and architecture.
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