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Stratos: Open Source Platform-as-a-Service
Paul Fremantle discusses the benefits of using an open PaaS, detailing in this context the services provided by Stratos and StratosLive.
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Mobile and The New Two-Tiered Web Architecture
Aditya Bansod presents the shift in web architecture introduced by the latest mobile devices, and how Sencha’s software can help building modern applications.
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The Evolution of Integration
Paul Fremantle discusses the evolution of EAI, comparing the latest approaches, suggesting using Async Messaging, EDA, APIs, and doing high volumes, and underlining that evolution is not monotonic.
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Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages
Philip Wadler discusses second-order quantification, from its inception in the symbolic logic of Frege through to the generic features introduced in Java 5, touching on aspects of faith and evolution.
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Fast Mobile UIs
Horia Dragomir shares pitfalls to avoid and tips for creating fast and fluid iOS and Android applications with HTML5.
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Platform Choices on Windows Azure (It’s not just ASP.NET and SQL Server)
Mark Rendle introduces the basic services offered by Windows Azure along with examples of various platform choices that can be used: RavenDB, ASP.NET MVC, Node.js + Express, MongoDB, Sinatra, etc.
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Architecture at Scale at ESPN
Manny Pelarinos presents ESPN’s overall and core service architecture, the data ingest process, the custom CMS and template language used, and how live scores and personalization work.
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Riding the (Apache) Camel into the Cloud
James Strachan introduces Apache Camel, explaining how to use it along with Fuse Fabric to implement enterprise integration patterns in the cloud.
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Acceleration in the Wild with Dataflow Computing
James Spooner discusses the need to make good use of the underlying silicon using Dataflow computing and parallelism to improve throughput and latency for optimized data processing performance.
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Polyfilling The HTML5 Gaps With JavaScript
Addy Osmani introduces polyfills, JavaScript shims that can be used to simulate HTML5 functionality in older browsers such as IE 6-8. He explains how to write new polyfills.
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How AppFog Built a PaaS around CloudFoundry
Jeremy Voorhis introduces PaaS and CloudFoundry, then explains how AppFog built their own PaaS on top of CloudFoundry.
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Big Data Architectures at Facebook
Ashish Thusoo presents the data scalability issues at Facebook and the data architecture evolution from EDW to Hadoop to Puma.