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Is the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now the Most Multi-Language PaaS?
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) team just added Ruby support to its Elastic Beanstalk service and now has one of the most multi-language cloud platforms available. In addition, AWS introduced support for Elastic Beanstalk in its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) so that customers can deploy and manage private versions of their web applications.
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SOA Still Not Dead: Ratification of Governance Standard Highlights SOA’s Continued Relevance
The Open Group recently announced that their SOA Governance Framework was accepted as an international standard following a vote by the International Organization for Standardization (IOC) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The ratification came at the end of a six month review period and marks a continued relevance of SOA principles in today’s technology solutions.
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News from O’Reilly Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2012: Azure HDInsight, Cloudera Impala, MapR M7
Several new Hadoop-based frameworks where announced during this year O’Reilly Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2012 in New York last week.
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Windows Azure Messaging Features Come To Windows Server
Microsoft has announced public availability of Service Bus 1.0, and it will be free to use with a properly licensed Windows Server. This makes features from Windows Azure Messaging available on in-house infrastructure.
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Project Jigsaw Late for the Train: Deferment ratified
JSR 337 expert group has ratified Oracle chief architect Mark Reinhold's proposal to defer Project Jigsaw to Java 9. Were the stated reasons sufficient motivation for this deferment?
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Google Publishes Paper On Spanner Ushering a Return to Distributed Transactional Semantics
Scalability vs distributed transactional semantics,is no longer a compromise as per Google's research work on Spanner. Spanner's features include non-blocking reads, lock-free read only transactions and atomic schema changes across a globally replicated relational database. The central idea that tackles the latency issues with distributed transactions is the exposure of clock uncertainty.
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Is It Time For WADL in JAX-RS?
At JavaOne 2012 in a panel session around the future of Java EE, the audience were keen to know whether or not WADL should be a standard part of JAX-RS. Although the panel were unable to agree, the audience appeared to be more pro WADL than against. So is this a good thing or is WADL still considered unnecessary for successful REST?
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QCon San Francisco 3 Weeks Away (Nov 5-9, 2012); New Keynotes Published; Popular Tracks & Sessions
The sixth annual QCon San Francisco is taking place in just 3 weeks - register before Oct 19th and save $200. Attend the premier west coast event for learning, networking, and tracking innovation in the Java, HTML5, Mobile, Agile, and Architecture communities.
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InfoQ Research Project Update
As you may know already, InfoQ is testing a new service that we hope will provide you with up-to-date and bias-free community-based insight into trends and behaviors that affect enterprise software development. After a few weeks of being in production, we wanted to share with you, our community of users, an update on how this project is going.
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“Drilling” Through the Big Data
Apache new project Drill is aimed to support real-time interactive analysis of large-scale (terabytes size) data sets.
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Udi Dahan on Throw Away Prototypes
In his recent blog post “Build one to throw away” Udi Dahan is addressing the chicken-and-egg problem software developers often face. On one hand, customers don’t exactly like what they want so that they need to closely interact with software engineers. On the other hand, building product-ready solutions for this interaction might lead to high costs.
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Amazon Reserved Instance Marketplace Provides Escape Route for Pre-Paid IaaS Investments
The Amazon Web Services team has just announced a new way for its cloud customers to sell their unused Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. This means that customers who made long term AWS commitments in exchange for significantly lower costs can offload their machines before their contract with AWS expires.
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Community-Driven Research: Next Major Hurdle for Cloud Computing?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 5th question: "What is the Next Major Hurdle for Cloud Computing?". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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QConSF: Facebook, Pinterest, Ancestry.com Case Studies; Tales from Silicon Valley; Nov 5 - 9, 2012
75% of the sessions are now up on the QConSF conference site and over 80% of speakers have been confirmed, including keynote speaker Kevlin Henney, patterns book author and editor of “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know”. QConSF will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on November 5 - 9, 2012. Save up to $350 if you register by Sept 14th.
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SAP's Jonathan Becher Claims That Brainstorming Does Not Work
In the SAP Newsroom blog Jonathan Becher recently posted on the topic "Is Brainstorming Brain Dead?". Brainstorming is a method frequently applied within system and software development projects. Becher claims, the technique of brainstorming has proven to be a failure.