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Securely Managed API Technologies Key to Fostering Market Innovation
Web services offer distinct go-to-market velocity in terms of real-time innovation, but requires new standards in the way APIs are secured and managed and the nature in which APIs communicate between organizations at the B2B enterprise gateway level.
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The Virtual Tug of War
Technology professionals have always fought an unrelenting war not dissimilar to feud between the Hatfields and McCoys – a continuous conflict with no winners. In the world of IT, this is a battle over security and performance fought by security professionals and network administrators. These two factions have always had to barter and maintain an uneasy truce in organizations in order to survive.
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Zato - Python-based ESB and Backend Application Server
Zato is an open-source ESB and application server written in Python. It is designed to integrate systems in SOA and to build backend applications (i.e. API only).
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Interview and Video Review: Working with Big Data: Infrastructure, Algorithms, and Visualizations
Paul Dix leads a practical exploration into Big Data in this video training series. The first five lessons of the training span multiple server systems with a focus on the end to end processing of large quantities of XML data from real Stack Exchange posts. He completes the training with a lesson on developing visualizations for gaining insights from the macro level analysis of Big Data.
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Choosing the Right ESB for Your Integration Needs
Kai Wähner explains the differences between an integration framework, an ESB and an integration suite, following with advice for selecting the right one from existing commercial and open source solutions.
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Designing and Implementing Hypermedia APIs
This article (the second in a four-part series) walks through the implementation of a hypermedia server based on the design for the class scheduling problem domain outlined in the first installment of this series. In upcoming weekly installments of the series, details of implementing hypermedia clients will be reviewed along with techniques for evolving the API safely over time.
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Designing and Implementing Hypermedia APIs
This article (the first in a four-part series) talks briefly about the concept of using hypermedia as an application programming interface (API) and how to design a hypermedia type to use as a basis for your API. In upcoming weekly installments of the series, details of implementing hypermedia servers and clients will be reviewed along with techniques for evolving the API safely over time.
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Sharing Code in WCF without Code Generation
One of the principal problems with normal WCF development is code reuse. No matter how well you design your classes on the server, once the proxy generator has touched them you get nothing but simple DTOs. This article shows how to bypass the proxy generator so that your client and server can share code.
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Interview With Demis Bellot, Project Lead of ServiceStack - Part 2
ServiceStack is an Opensource .NET and Mono REST Web Services framework. InfoQ had the opportunity to get insights from Demis Bellot about the project. In Part 2 of this two-part interview, we learn more about ServiceStack features and the role of Microsoft and Mono in open source .NET.
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Interview With Demis Bellot, Project Lead of ServiceStack - Part 1
ServiceStack is an Opensource .NET and Mono REST Web Services framework. InfoQ had the opportunity to get insights from Demis Bellot about the project. In Part 1 of this two-part interview, we discuss mainly about the motivation behind ServiceStack and various design choices made in the project.
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Implementing Pub/Sub based on AWS technologies
Publish Subscribe is an important component of many real life implementations. In this article Boris Lublinsky shows how to combene several of-the-shelf AWS components to build simple, yet flexible and powerful PubSub Service
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Interview and Book Review: Spring Integration in Action
Spring Integration in Action book, authored by Mark Fisher, Jonas Partner, Marius Bogoevici and Iwein Fuld, covers the Spring Integration framework which provides an implementation of Enterprise Integration Patterns based on Spring programming model. InfoQ spoke with authors about the book, Spring Integration framework, its strengths and limitations.