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The Diary of a REST “Convert”
In his new article ZapThink’s Ronald Schmelzer tries to explain why REST is a better option for implementing SOA.
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Confusion Abounds When Aligning Business Architects
Organizations continue to struggle when identifying the role of business architects and persist in misaligning them to IT departments. Tom Graves, an Enterprise Architect at Tetradian Consulting, pointed out the problems this causes and challenges architects to not accept the status quo but rather, try and improve the situation.
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Forrester Proclaims Data Virtualization Technology Coming of Age
Businesses have been strangled by high integration costs from ETL and DBMS consolidation initiatives which still leads to information silos and a broken data infrastructure. Forrester in its latest report claims that data virtualization driven by technological advances and customer successes is ready for massive adoption.
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SQL Server ‘Denali’ CTP Gets Self Service BI Capabilities
Microsoft recently announced CTP 3 for SQL Server ‘Denali’, which boasts of improved BI capabilities like Self Service Alerting, Self Service Reporting, improved Office integration, SharePoint Shared Service, better VS Tooling for developers and more.
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The Legacy of Eli Goldratt
On June 11th 2011, Dr. Eli Goldratt, inventor of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), passed away. Eli’s first, and most famous book was the "The Goal", it defined the TOC. His legacy will continue to indirectly influence the agile by the embodiment of his ideas in techniques we apply every day.
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Thinking of Enterprise Architecture as Vectors
Enterprise architects Robert Phipps and Tom Graves find great benefit in viewing the enterprise as a composition of vectors to determine the direction of change rather than the current static approach of frozen "as-is" and "to-be" states. This has created a buzz in the EA community and while a majority support the idea of representing dynamism there are critics of the abstract analogy.
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SoapUI and LoadUI Join the SmartBear Product Portfolio
SmartBear Software, a prominent ALM and monitoring tool vendor acquired Eviware, creators of popular open source web services testing tools soapui and loadui, last week.
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unREST as the new REST?
In a recent article Jean-Jacques Dubray discusses why we should be looking beyond REST and perhaps agreeing that it is not applicable to many areas in which it is being used. In an attempt to illustrate where he believes we should be moving, he proposes unREST, which is 3 simple rules for designing successful APIs.
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MapR Releases Commercial Distributions based on Hadoop
MapR Technologies released a big data toolkit, based on Apache Hadoop with their own distributed storage alternative to HDFS. The software is commercial, with both a free edition, M3, as well as a paid edition, M5. M5 includes snapshots and mirroring for data, Job Tracker recovery, and commercial support. MapR's M5 edition will form the basis of EMC Greenplum's upcoming HD Enterprise Edition.
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Evaluating Play for Composing Web APIs
Yevgeniy Brikman, Principal Software Engineer at linked in, published a summary of his evaluation of the Play framework, a Java Web Framework that supports asynchronous programming patterns with HTTP.
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Web 3.0 - Cult or Culture?
In a recent article by Jonathan Strickland for HowStuffWorks the author addresses Web 3.0. This "long anticipated and disruptive new technology" is supposed to increase the possibilities of users and providers. But what exactly is the Web 3.0?
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Mary Shaw and Dave Garlan have been honored for pioneering Research in Software Architecture
The Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have awarded Mary Shaw and Dave Garlan the Outstanding Research Award 2011. Both computer scientists have pioneered the work on Software Architecture at the Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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OpenJDK to be Java SE 7 Reference Implementation, Bylaws Ratified by Oracle
The OpenJDK Community Bylaws have been ratified, with 70 votes in favour, no votes against, and nine abstentions. 61 of the votes in favour were from Oracle employees.
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Using Xbase to Define a Generic Graphical View
Jan Koehnlein, a core committer of the Xtext project, introduces how Xbase can be used to declaratively create graphical views of a given model, which is otherwise achieved by a hard-wired transformation between the model and its graphical representation.
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Yahoo Hadoop Spinout Hortonworks Announces Plans
Yahoo spun-out its core Hadoop team, forming a new company Hortonworks. CEO Eric Baldeschwieler presented their vision of easing adoption of Hadoop and making core engineering improvements for availability, performance, and manageability. Hortonworks will sell support, training, and certification, primarily indirects through partners.