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QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Enterprise Software Development Conference Launched
QCon is coming back to San Francisco this November 19-21st, featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Eric Meijer (creator of LINQ), Rod Johnson (Spring), and others. Digg.com, Facebook, Yellowpages.com and MySpace.com architectures will be presented. QCon is the conference for enterprise software development team leads, architects and project management.
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NCache: A Distributed Cache for the .NET Platform Available Today
While we wait for Microsoft to finish Velocity, its attempt at building distributed memory cache for the .NET platform, we turn to other more established vendors. One such vendor is Alachisoft's and its NCache product. Currently Alachisoft offers both a free and a paid SKU, the latter supporting NHibernate.
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Interview: Randy Shoup Discusses the eBay Architecture
In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, Randy Shoup discusses the architecture of eBay. Topics discussed include eBay's architectural principles, horizontal and vertical partitioning, ACID vs. BASE, handling data inconsistency, distributed caching, updating eBay on the fly, architectural and coding standards, eBay's search infrastructure, grid computing, and SOA.
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OAuth Gaining Momentum
OAuth, an open standard for access delegation, is gaining momentum with a number of implementations including one for Spring Security.
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Article: David Nuescheler on JCR and REST
In this interview, Day CTO and JCR Spec Lead David Nuescheler discusses the benefits of JCR, the Java Content Repository standard, the difference between an API such as Atom/Atom Publishing protocol and JCR, JCR's connection to REST, and Apache Sling, a new kind of Web framework.
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Could the Solution to IT's Problems be less IT-Business Alignment?
The never ending debate about the role, the relevance or the organization of IT has added yet another frustration moment. Susan Cram, an industry expert, shared the 8 things -she thinks- we hate about IT. In her analysis, she points out a surprising remedy: avoiding the IT alignment trap.
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InfoQ Case Study: NASDAQ Market Replay
In this case study InfoQ reviews the usage of Adobe AIR and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in the NASDAQ Market Replay application. It is an exciting time for the software industry, as the NASDAQ Market Replay implementation demonstrates that a powerful data driven application can be brought to the market quickly and deployed within a limited budget.
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Whoa There: SOA, SOA 2.0, ROA, WOA. An Acronym Too Far?
With SOA 2.0 dead and the REST vs SOA vs Web Services debates simmering less fiercely of late, some in the industry have started to talk about Web Oriented Architecture (WOA). But is this different to anything that already exists (e.g., REST)? If so, why and how does it help developers and deployers? Burton Group's Anne Thomas Manes believes it is a term too far and adds nothing to the debate.
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SOA Software Announces SOA Development Governance Product
Good governance of a service-oriented architecture is becoming a core competency. SOA governance is about ensuring and validating that assets and artifacts within the architecture are operating as expected and maintaining a certain level of quality. Newly released Repository Manager from SOA Software provides many features, that are required for successful SOA governance implementation.
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Presentation by Martin Fowler and Jim Webber: "Does My Bus Look Big in This?"
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London 2008, ThoughtWorks' Chief Scientist Martin Fowler and Global Head of Architecture Jim Webber share their views of the typical corporate ESB, which in their opinion has grown too fat for its own good. Martin and Jim suggest the Web's architecture as a possible and more light-weight alternative, in line with their preference for agile approaches.
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Designing for Spam: A Challenge for the Web?
The increasing activity and hostility of spammers and the sophistication of their spamming tools are a constantly growing concern for the web. The recent spam attack on Craigslist triggered many reactions in the blogosphere seeking to analyze spammers’ techniques and possible remedies and to consider the implications that the spam’s spread may have on architecture.
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Object Lifecycle Explorer Released on AlphaWorks
Object Lifecycles (a.k.a State Machines) have been for the most part ignored by developers, architects and business process practitioners alike. A group of researchers from IBM Zurich has just released an Object Lifecycle modeling tool that complements and link with executable Business Process models.
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Velocity: Microsoft's Distributed In-Memory Cache
Distributed in-memory caches have been rather popular over the last few years in everything from mainstream Java applications to the fringe languages like Erlang. Continuing its rather frantic efforts to catch up with technologies predominately found in the open source world, Microsoft has introduced its own distributed cache.
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Appistry Java/C++ Grid Fabric Goes Free for up to 5 Servers
Appistry recently released a free 5 server community edition of their EAF product. InfoQ sat down with VP Sam Charrington to discuss this move and Appistry's overall place in the grid/cloud computing landscape.
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Nexaweb contributes code to the Dojo JavaScript Toolkit
Nexaweb has contributed new software to the Dojo Foundation that aims to advance the use of open source AJAX technology within a company's critical business applications. The software, dubbed 'dojo.E' is a set of extensions to the Dojo Toolkit, that bring XML into Dojo components and a new API for managing DOM modifications based on user interaction.