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
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BloomReach Introduces Suite of Services From Their Multi-Channel Cloud ... MarketWatch (press release) These web services grow multi-channel profitability and scale in an automated, intelligently structured fashion. "Over 90% of the Web's content was created within the last two years, making it increasingly difficult for Web business to connect relevant ... and more » 22 Feb 2012 at 7:04am
Google, Apple, Path Roil Data-Privacy Waters eWeek It started in January when Google announced that it would change its privacy policy in March, streamlining several product-privacy rules under one big umbrella policy and vowing to let those Web services share data. This led several regulators and ... and more » 21 Feb 2012 at 1:10pm
Texting Revenues Hit By Web Services VC Circle Telecom operators lost almost $14bn in revenues in 2011 from a decline in text messaging owing to the rise in use of social messaging services provided free over the internet on smartphones, research has shown. Ovum, the independent technology analyst, ... and more » 21 Feb 2012 at 11:25pm
IFM's New Website Offers Better Search Engine Optimization Solutions: No Magic ... PR Web (press release) In a world where technology is king and an internet presence is a must IFM Web Services has always been the first choice for my businesses. Toronto-based Search Optimization company, IFM Web Services, has launched their new website and expanded their ... and more » 22 Feb 2012 at 2:13am
Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services by Robert Daigneau Description: Web services have been used for many years. In this time, developers and architects have encountered a number of recurring design challenges related to their usage, and have learned that certain service design approaches work better than others to solve certain problems. In Service Design Patterns, Rob Daigneau codifies proven design solutions for web services that follow the RE...
An Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS, EC2, S3, etc) (@mbrit Technical Briefings) by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds Description: Want to understand more about the capabilities of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform? In this ebook, you'll learn all about the core capabilities of the platform. *** Money-back guarantee. We'll refund you if you tell us you got no value from this book. *** All of the AWS services are covered, specifically: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic MapReduce, Auto Scaling, CloudFr...
Restful Web Services by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby, David Heinemeier Hansson Description: "Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book." -- David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework "RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it." -- Adam Trachtenberg, PHP author and EBay Web Services Evangelist You've built web sites that can be used by ...
