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Apache Kafka: Next Generation Distributed Messaging System
Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. This article covers the architecture model, features and characteristics of Kafka framework and how it compares with traditional messaging systems.
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Web APIs and the n+1 Problem
The n+1 one problem doesn’t just affect ORMs. Any kind of Web API, RPC/Web Service or RESTful, can suffer from the same performance problems. In this article, Ali Kheyrollahi discusses some of the common scenarios that lead to n+1 in web APIs and ways to correct them.
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Microservices: Decomposing Applications for Deployability and Scalability
What are microservices? This article describes the increasingly popular Microservice architecture pattern, used to architect large, complex and long-lived applications as a set of cohesive services that evolve over time.
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Restify and Mobilize Your Data
Val Huber explains creating a RESTful API from an existing database schema, extending the API to define multi-table hierarchical resources, and adding behavior using declarative reactive expressions.
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Russ Miles on Antifragility and Microservices
Currently, Antifragility and Microservices are trending topics and this might be a hint that there are new architectural paradigms or design patterns on their way for building application systems.. We're discussing these new concepts with Russ Miles to find out what they are good for and how to apply them in an architect's or developer's daily business - for existing applications and those to come
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Distributing Complex Services in Cross-Geolocational IDCs
In this interview, first published on InfoQ China, Micro Sun describes some of the techniques Tencent use to scale Qzone, a social networking platform in China with over 600 million monthly active users,
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Minding the API Hierarchy of Needs with RAML and APIkit
Reza Shafii explains how to satisfy two fundamental needs of API design and implementation, as defined by the API hierarchy of needs, with RAML, API Designer and APIkit.
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Exposing CQRS Through a RESTful API
Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is an architectural pattern that segregates reads and writes of a system into two separate models. We propose and demonstrate an approach for building a RESTful API on top of CQRS systems. This approach joins HTTP semantics and resource-based style of REST APIs with distributed computing concerns such as eventual consistency and concurrency.
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Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot to Access Data in an Aerospike Cluster
Spring Boot allows you to build Spring based applications with little effort on your part. Aerospike is a distributed and replicated in-memory database that is ACID compliant. This article will take you through creating a simple RESTful web service with Spring Boot and Aerospike.
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The Best Process Is No Process
Bureaucracy often plagues large product development efforts. Just like technical debt slows down development, process debt slows down your business. Have you ever experienced 12,096,000% savings in time? Clarify strategy. Automate processes. Parallelize work. Collaborate intently. Did you know a hidden MS project default may be causing inflexibility? Eliminate process debt. Get to market faster
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Social BPM
The growth of mobile devices, advances in technology and the rise of social media are impacting the way customers interact with organisations. This article examines how business process management can drive the way organisations respond to and interact with their customers using social media. Automated BPM can provide the tools for deeper and better customer engagement.
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Cloud Service Brokers: What You Need to Know
Winston Bumpus, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the DMTF, introduces Cloud Service Brokers – agents providing guidance in selecting and using the most appropriate cloud service from multiple providers – and the CIMI model – a standardized model based on the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) Specification - used to integrate cloud service providers.