You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram. To start, here are three criteria [...]
November 18, 2008
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good. The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog is written by Doug Barry.
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Enterprise Web Apps: The Next Generation TechNewsWorld ... For applications that benefit from highly interactive user experiences, developers should consider breaking data-intensive functionality into asynchronous Web services that can be integrated into the Web-based user interface using REST-style APIs. and more » 8 Feb 2012 at 7:03am
Genome of Extinct Human Relative Placed on Amazon Web Services Wired News But to keep the research community from waiting for the paper to clear peer review, they've decided to release the sequence, both on the Max Planck website and through Amazon's Web Services. The release includes both the raw sequence itself, ... and more » 7 Feb 2012 at 3:32pm
Akamai Acquires Website Performance Company Blaze Software TechCrunch After scooping up rival Cotendo for $268 million recently, content delivery and web services giant Akamai is making another acquisition today—Blaze Software. Blaze's technology helps accelerate speed of Websites, and optimizes load times while cutting ... and more » 8 Feb 2012 at 8:19am
Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C#: Using the Web Services Enhancements 2.0 by Jeffrey Hasan Description: SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is the next big step in evolution for Web services. This book is the first to educate people about SOA, and to introduce them to the technologies that they can use today, prior to the release of Indigo. It will introduce them to a new architecture and will help them realize why Web services are such a big deal (beyond today's popular but very lim...
Executive's Guide to Web Services (SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture) by Eric A. Marks, Mark J. Werrell Description: Discover how Web services can improve cost-savings and make your organization more competitive. You’ll get summaries of developing standards, current vendor positions (Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Oracle, Sun), and industry examples of Web services solutions and benefits. Order your copy today!
