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Friday, August 24, 2007 06:10 PM

» Performance characteristics of virtualization led server consolidation



Virtualization is red hot these days -- everyone, and his mother, is not only talking about but also investing in it . But what happens to performance characteristics, such as throughput and response time, of applications that get shoved on a single physical
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 04:01 PM

» SOA is great, but you need to pay attention to certain aspects



The Feb. 2007 issue of acm queue has an interesting article titled Is Your SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) DOA (Dead on Arrival)? It begins with a hypothetical story of Marty the Software Manager who gets fired on a failed and over-promised SOA project
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Monday, September 18, 2006 06:22 PM

» Is the era of open standards-based products over?



Came across two items on the web within a span of few minutes supporting the hypothesis that we may be entering into an era of closed, non-modular and proprietary products: Nicholas Carr's interesting and insightful blog entry titled the strange world
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Monday, September 18, 2006 05:45 PM

» Delving into point-to-point integrations



Point-to-point integrations are routinely denounced as being complex, unmanageable, ridden with all sorts of problems and, in general, an antithesis of the kind of agile architectures promoted by Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). But what exactly are
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Friday, September 01, 2006 06:01 PM

» The right development platform for web applications



Joel Spolsky , a well known entrepreneur and blogger within the software development community, claims, in his latest blog post The Language Wars , that the best development platforms for web applications are C#, Java, PHP and Python, and among these
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Monday, August 28, 2006 02:22 PM

» Integrating events with OpenView Operations



Most integrations with Openview Operations (OVO, in short) to monitor and manage the events involves feeding event data to OVO. As explained in Mark Secrist's excellent column on integrating JMX notifications to OVO , you have a number of options to do
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 07:47 PM

» JavaScript: the MFSL (Most Favored Scripting Language) for Java



Lately there has been a lot of talk about scripting languages within two main development environments -- Java and .Net . This is a welcome thing, for scripting languages have their place in any development toolset and most enterprise products. However
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Monday, June 26, 2006 05:42 PM

» What does an Integrated HP OpenView mean to you?



I was attending HP Software Forum last week at Miami and had a chance to directly hear various perspectives on what people thought would make an Integrated HP OpenView. This is of particular interest and importance to me as my main job is to work with
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 07:03 PM

» More on ESBs ...



Came across this blog entry from Mark Little, project Lead for JBossESB (and a former colleague at HP during HP Middleware days), talking about JBoss's acquisition of Rosetta ESB . Therein lies the claim that ESBs are the development and deployment platforms
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Friday, May 12, 2006 07:32 PM

» What exactly is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)?



I started hearing about ESBs about a year ago in context of Web Services and SOA and everytime wondered what it might be. Is it something that was always there and somehow I just managed to miss it? Apparently not. Recently introduced Google Trends confirms
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Friday, April 14, 2006 06:25 PM

» From statically typed languages to scripting languages



Scripting or dynamically typed languages that avoid the compile step from the normal development cycle of write --> compile --> execute have gained a lot of traction recently. More and more people have found good reasons to embrace scripting languages
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 08:29 PM

» SOA Reference Model



Looks like most folk are pretty jaded with all the talk about SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and no longer want to hear more about it. So no wonder that the publication of this OASIS SOA Reference Model did not attact much attention (or is it because
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 10:21 PM

» Open source is a key enabler of utility computing



This is what Nicholas Carr , the (in)famous author of Does IT Matter? , says in his Open Source Business Conference presentation . Interestingly, I came across this presenteation just after making a post at my personal blog on Google's approach to Total
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 01:33 PM

» A (healthy) dose of ITIL



A couple of weeks ago I attended a 3 day ITIL Foundation course offered by HP Education . Now, most of the technical courses are anything but exciting and I didn't expect this one to be any different. So much so that I didn't even pay any attention attention
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 06:22 PM

» How do you document your Web Services?



So you have replaced (or more likely, augmented) your language specific APIs with Web Service interfaces and expect the developers to be happier. Afterall, now they can use their favorite language and toolkit to integrate with your product. Right? Not
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