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RPC and its Offspring: Convenient, Yet Fundamentally Flawed
Steve Vinoski covers the history of RPC, standardization, distributed objects, CORBA, DCOM, Java, SOAP, WS-*, flaws in RPC, REST vs RPC philosophy, Erlang reliability and concurrency.
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Functions + Messages + Concurrency = Erlang
This highly technical presentation discusses Erlang and three models of concurrent programming along with challenges posed by concurrency and how Erlang resolves them.
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WS-* vs. REST: Mashing up the Truth from Facts, Myths and Lies
In this presentation, recorded at QCon, WSO2's CEO and WSDL co-inventor Sanjiva Weerawarana tries to address some of the truths, myths and lies surrounding the REST-vs.-WS-* debate.
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Services & Workflows: SOAP and REST with WCF and WWF
Christian Weyer explains how to create distributed systems using SOAP or REST on top of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) or Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF).
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Jim Webber on "Guerilla SOA"
In a very entertaining presentation, Jim Webber debunks myths about the ESB concept and explains how a lightweight approach can yield real benefits without giving in to vendor pressure.
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Real World Web Services
In this presentation, Scott Davis provides a pragmatic, down-to-earth introduction to Web services as used in the real world by public sites, including SOAP-based, REST and POX-style examples.
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Event Patterns
Ian Cartwright presents some of his work (developed with Martin Fowler) on event patterns: Event Sourcing, Event Collaboration, Parallel Model, and Retroactive Event.