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REST Web services

• Public API strategy considerations for enterprise adoption

  As organizations look for more cost-effective ways to manage data, an evolving landscape with APIs has made the technology more useful for both the business and IT side.  Continue Reading

• Five RESTful web service client examples for developers

  Explore your web service client invocation options with these five examples that enable developers to perform this task at any stage of development.  Continue Reading

• Establishing a coherent API for the Internet of Things (IoT)

  The rapid growth of smart devices is inspiring many developers to create applications for home monitoring, health, and other services. But these applications are dependent on early adopters that actually buy and install hardware. Read on to find out...  Continue Reading

• Java APIs to bridge the gap between today and future development efforts

  At JavaOne 2015, a big topic of conversation was APIs and API development. In the IBM keynote, the promise was that an evolutionary approach to API development will help modern day developers pass the torch to those doing development in the future.  Continue Reading

• When loose coupling and SOA style software layering doesn't make sense

  Loose coupling and adding in SOA style layers don't make sense unless an application is going to be distributed. If enterprise wide distribution isn't in your application's future, stop adding in extra complexity, and collapse those layers into ...  Continue Reading

• The challenge of managing distributed data can only be solved with NoSQL solutions

  Managing data over large geographic areas where latency and reliability problems exist is a major challenge for relational databases, but fortunately, NoSQL databases are solving the problem of managing distributed data.  Continue Reading

• Where are the REST alternatives for real-time applications?

  Enterprise developers face number of challenges in creating frameworks for building scalable real-time applications that power modern apps like the cars moving in Uber. Read on to find out how new protocols and automatically synchronized database ...  Continue Reading

• Can a pattern become an anti-pattern? How to avoid the loose coupling mistake

  Nobody is debating the benefits of loose-coupling, but far too many SOA architects take the practice too far. Make sure you know when loose-coupling makes sense, and more importantly, when it doesn't.  Continue Reading

• Software developers demanding resource based, RESTful APIs

  Software developers are demanding APIs that are delivered in a RESTful, resource based way, and one way to do that is by building with the RESTlet framework.  Continue Reading

• Big Data Hadoop solutions with Hive, Mahout, HBase and Cassandra

  As Hadoop evolves, complimentary technologies such as Hive, Mahout, HBase and Cassandra are allowing software engineers get more and more out of commodity hardware.  Continue Reading

• The two most common problems dogging SOA projects

  The author of SOA patterns discusses the two most common problems hurting SOA development projects.  Continue Reading

• Key benefits of architecting loosely coupled SOA-based solutions

  Service-oriented architectures (SOA) experience the most benefits when architects use loose coupling to build their solutions.  Continue Reading

• How NoSQL, MySQL and MongoDB worked together to solve a big-data problem

  Choosing between schemaless NoSQL databases and strong-schema relational designs isn't an either-or decision, as this case study points out. When dealing with their big data problem, Craigslist decided that their MySQL servers could use a little ...  Continue Reading

• How has cloud computing impacted the developer and the development lifecycle?

  At the 2012 Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, TheServerSide's Cameron McKenzie speaks with Mark Driver, VP of Research at Gartner, about how cloud computing is changing the way ...  Continue Reading

• Strategies for creating a responsive design with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript

  A responsive design is one that looks good on any sized screen, whether it's a desktop monitor or a seven inch tablet. But how do you create a responsive design, and what is the best approach? Here we go beyond simple CSS and HTML5 and find out what...  Continue Reading