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InterOperability, O-TTPF and Other Highlights of The Open Group Conference
The Open Group Conference was held in San Diego from Feb 7-11,2011. In this news item we cover highlights of the conference especially around the topics of EA, Cloud and SOA.
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RPC or REST in the Cloud?
After our recent article reporting William Vambenepe's assertion that the Cloud does not need REST, several people in the blogosphere countered, claiming that he misunderstood or ignored the importance of REST. William has responded to these critics, attempting to show how perhaps they are putting REST above pragmatic realities and that perhaps RPC is still the best approach, at least for now.
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Facebook Architecture @ QCon Next Month: Infrastructure, HTML5, NoSQL, OO Design
Flying from Palo Alto to London, next month’s QCon will feature 4 of Facebook’s finest engineers presenting HTML5 @ Facebook, HBase @ Facebook , Design in the face of scale and change (a look at OO design within their platform), and Scaling the Social Graph: Infrastructure at Facebook. Such a gathering of Facebook speakers is an unprecedented event for the UK.
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Project Turmeric: eBay Open Source Launches with SOA Platform
eBaypenSurce.org made an appearance on the open source scene with the announcement of Project Turmeric. Turmeric is a comprehensive set of design and runtime tools for a SOA implementation. Does this signal a growing trend of non-ISVs in democratizing tooling?
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The Latest Technology Trends as Seen by ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks has issued the January 2011 edition (PDF) of their Technology Radar, a document meant to indicate current software technology trends in a concise form.
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Verizon Expands Cloud Computing Portfolio with Terremark Acquisition
Verizon Communications Inc. acquires Terremark Worldwide Inc., an operator of data centers, for $1.4bn in a move to boost its cloud strategy. Does this move change the market dynamics in the Cloud IaaS space? Opinions range from highly optimistic to pessimistic and everything in between.
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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS And Web Hosting Providers
Gartner announced their magic quadrant for Cloud IaaS and web hosting providers
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QCon London March 9-11 Highlights, Registration Up 100%
QCon London, InfoQ's in-person conference is coming up March 8-11 and registration is double last year's at this time. This 4th annual event is a practitioner-driven conference designed for team leads, architects and project management. A lot of work went into the program this year for this event with usually has over 100 speakers, highlighted in this post.
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Service Oriented 'Internet of Things And Services'
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) are associated with business applications and integrations. A recent IEEE publication describes the architecture and processes to achieve relatively seamless integration between the burgeoning 'Internet of Things' with the 'Internet of Services'.
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Is REST important for Cloud?
In a recent article, William Vambenepe asks whether REST is really necessary in Cloud implementations when Amazon's success with a non-REST API appears to contradict perceived wisdom.
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Gartner Vendor Report: Application Infrastructure For Systematic SOA-Style Application Projects
Gartner recently released a report where they examine and evaluate the ability of leading application infrastructure providers/vendors to provide organizations with complete end-to-end support for for Systematic SOA-Style applications and projects.
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SOA and Information Risk Management
Clive Gee, an experienced IBM SOA Practitioner, describes how IT securing the networks has evolved into what he refers to as Information risk management. As the collaboration space increases with application integration and service oriented systems, he examines the risk management of the increased the surface area of threats and vulnerability.
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The Open Group Releases a New Technical Standard - SOA Ontology
A lack of mutually agreed-upon SOA terms, definitions and concepts can create interoperability issues that inhibit end-to-end business activities within an organization, as well as between vendor, customer, and partner organizations. A new Open Group Standard - Service-Oriented Architecture Ontology - is trying to fill this gap.
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Activiti 5.0 GA, the Apache 2 Licensed BPMN 2 Engine Released
Alfresco has just released version 5.0 GA of the Activiti engine, an Apache2 licensed BPMN 2.0 implementation. InfoQ talked with project lead Tom Baeyens on the new release. Tom is also the creator and former project lead for the jBPM project.
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Simple IT: SOA Done Right
In his new post, Steve Jones proposes the notion of Simple IT – an IT that can be defined as a series of easily describable business aligned elements each of which can be independently maintained- in other words a properly designed SOA system.