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• The dangers of choosing the wrong open source software license

  With more than 1,000 variations in existence, how do you know which open source software license is best for your organization?  Continue Reading

• Public cloud data security is stronger than app developers believe

  Cloud service providers are working hard to prove that cloud data security can be just as secure as traditional on-premises systems.  Continue Reading

• Mobile ALM guidance: Android and iOS development is not ‘business as usual’

  Mobile development presents new challenges to architects and solution developers, but guidance on the topic of mobile ALM (application lifecycle management) is lacking, and the industry is looking for answers.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise Java Development with Windows 8 Phone and Desktop

  Enterprise Java developers typically shy away from the Windows platform, but Sal Pece decided to buck the trend and bring his Eclipse based development environment, along with his WebSphere Portal test server, to Windows 8. This article chronicles ...  Continue Reading

• How 'headless Android' is revolutionizing embedded systems development

  By providing a familiar development platform to thousands, 'headless Android' deployments are revolutionizing embedded systems development.  Continue Reading

• Are mobile developers more apt to embrace cloud-based technologies?

  When there's no knowing how big the workload is going to be, mobile developers have no other choice than to embrace cloud-based technologies.  Continue Reading

• Secure application development using the DevOps approach

  Secure application development done the DevOps way means prioritizing nonfunctional requirements.  Continue Reading

• Effective API development: How to create a beautiful Java API

  There's an art to creating a beautiful Java API. Here we examine the art of effective API development with Layer 7's Mike Amundsen.  Continue Reading

• Common mistakes to avoid when designing distributed SOA systems

  In an effort to gain some insight into how to best approach application design and architecting distributed SOA based systems, TheServerSide reached out to Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, the author of SOA Design Patterns, for his insights on the topic.  Continue Reading

• Five expert tips on how to build a distributed architecture

  Gathered from interviews with various industry experts, here we take a look at some tips on how to build distributed architecture, from using NoSQL and Hadoop, to grappling with RESTful web services and the CAP theorem.  Continue Reading

• How big data and distributed systems solve traditional scalability problems

  The highly centralized enterprise data center is becoming a thing of the past, as organizations must embrace a more distributed model to deal with everything from content management to big data. Here we examine how technologies like Hadoop and NoSQL...  Continue Reading

• How to architect a modern distributed architecture

  Building a distributed architecture involves many different components and many different strategies, from client server computing, to managing big data and content. Here we look at some basic strategies for tackling modern distributed architectures.  Continue Reading

• Contrasting distributed computing with concurrent programming:

  In many ways, concurrent programming and distributed programming address the same set of programming issues, but there are significant differences between the two, and architects and developers need to understand the difference.  Continue Reading

• Avoid the most common mobile development strategy mistakes

  Knowing the right questions to ask can help architects avoid making common mistakes in their mobile development strategy.  Continue Reading

• Seeding the Java cloud: How to achieve a state-of-the-art Java PaaS

  As the cloud matures and becomes more dependable, Java PaaS options are emerging that may hold benefit for deploying Java applications in the cloud.  Continue Reading