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  • Introducing: Restful Objects

    Restful Objects is a public specification of a hypermedia API for domain object models. Version 1.0.0 of the specification has just been released and there are already two open source frameworks that implement the specification - one for the Java platform and one for .NET.

  • Book Review: Java Application Architecture

    Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples using OSGi is Kirk Knoernschild's seminal book on a pattern catalogue for modular systems design. Starting with an overview of the arguments for modularity, the main section in the book introduces eighteen categorised patterns for module development, and concludes with an OSGi example. InfoQ spoke to Kirk to find out more about it.

  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2012

    The first annual QCon New York brought together over 400 team leads, architects and engineering directors. This article summarizes the key takeaways from the event as blogged and tweeted by attendees.

  • Virtual Panel: NoSQL Database Patterns and Polyglot Persistence

    NoSQL database space has different databases that support different data storage patterns. InfoQ spoke with four panelists about the current state of NoSQL adoption, architecture patterns supported by different NoSQL databases, polyglot persistence and security aspects when using NoSQL databases.

  • DevOps:Evolving to Handle Disruption

    With continued concerns regarding IT’s ability to meet the demands of the business in light of disruptive influences and a changing economic landscape DevOps might hold an answer.

  • A Distributed Access Control Architecture for Cloud Computing

    Cloud computing’s multitenancy and virtualization features pose unique security and access control challenges. In this article, authors discuss a distributed architecture based on the principles from security management and software engineering to address cloud computing’s security challenges.

  • CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed

    The CAP theorem asserts that any networked shared-data system can have only two of three desirable properties (Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance). In this IEEE article, author Eric Brewer discusses how designers can optimize consistency and availability by explicitly handling partitions, thereby achieving some trade-off of all three.

  • Designing and Developing Cross-Cutting Features

    Every developer has had to integrate with another system, API or component at one point or another. And, often, a business feature must span systems. If you’ve been on a project like this or have one in the pipeline then this article provides strategies to handle the change. Also, this article covers separating system boundaries and what that means for your technical design.

  • An Implementer’s View of Cloud Computing Readiness Assessments

    Are Cloud Computing Readiness Assessments a red herring or a valuable tool to help management decide if the organization is ready to adopt?

  • Net-Map - A Toolkit to Understand and Visualise Stakeholder Influence

    Net-Map is a tool developed by Eva Schiffer that allows you through interviews to visualise and analyse how different people and groups influence a particular situation. It is of interest to Agile teams as it can help you understand who your stakeholders are, how they are connected and the level of influence they have. InfoQ recently caught up with Eva and asked her a few questions.

  • Modeling Failure Scenarios in Systems

    The increase in number of integrated systems in today’s enterprise solutions necessitates dealing with dependency and environment failures in a systematic way. By modeling dependency failures at the architecture stage, system response to failures can be communicated, tested and implemented reducing the business risk and cost.

  • Purpose Case Management

    Article “Purpose Case Management” describes a Case Management method that overarches BPM and Adaptive Case Management. Author reviews several modern movements such as Unstructured BPM, Social BPM, Dynamic BPM, and ACM. The article concludes with a generic method that allows switching between BPM and ACM depending on which one of them is more efficient in an execution context at certain moment.

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