November 28, 2012 2:37 AM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
data architecture,
SOASOA is far from being the new technology kid on the block. But once it was. Now it is an older kid, and a practical approach to fielding a host of other new technologies. It should not be overstated, but, especially in the SOA services form known as “REST,” SOA is a foundational element of...
November 9, 2012 5:56 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
data architecture,
XMLIntegration development managers face a broad array of intimidating jobs these days as they are asked to field corporate technology initiatives. Such initiatives are varied. These can range from the meshing of Java and XML efforts to EDI mapping, from marshaling Excel data into XML to the support...
September 20, 2012 6:03 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
API,
data architecture,
Java,
RIA,
SOASoftware in the original mainframe days was all glommed together. Why not? Who was looking? Sometimes, reluctantly, some structure came about. Even in the early mid-range days, code was built up into classes, objects and components that were often loosely strung together.
With standard Java and...
August 20, 2012 8:22 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
data architecture,
hadoop,
middlewareQ: What is a data scientist? A: It’s a DBA from California. The joke belies the fact that the world of big data skills right now is pretty much topsy-turvy. If you would you like to look at a short list of
March 20, 2012 1:00 AM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Cloud Services,
data architectureThe idea of 'eventual consistency' was an Ah-Ha! moment in the history of e-commerce. With it, Amazon.com was able to throw away the traditional play book of transaction processing. But ‘eventual consistency’ is not a blank check. It requires developers – some of them, anyway – to make a...
December 8, 2011 7:08 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
data architecture,
web applicationsInnovative messaging and data architectures are being widely applied in Web applications these days – but approaches that work for the top-tier sites may not work well for others. While...
September 24, 2011 4:09 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
data architecture,
ESB,
SOA infrastructureLong-time SOA mainstay Progress Software said it is addressing apparent SOA limitations with a pre-integrated enterprise integration package announced this week at the company's yearly user conference. The software is composed of the Progress Sonic enterprise service bus (ESB) and the Progress...
May 7, 2011 2:00 AM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
data architecture,
middlewareVideo: When Site Editor Jack Vaughan got back from Red Hat's JBoss World, he filed a brief on a caching grid, something Red Hat looks to bring to the fore. In fact, the company is chasing others - big and small - in the data cache quest. Will JBoss succeed in positioning this technology as a...
May 4, 2011 8:41 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Cloud Services,
data architecture,
JavaAt Red Hat JBoss World this week Red Hat, Inc. disclosed a
