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Archive for September, 2008

Gnip, Online Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

Background
Message Queuing (MQ) middleware technology makes integration of services simple. For example MQ allows services to communicate in a flexible way by abstracting the connection details of the target service, data format and the underlying integration protocol. MQ allows the developers to build services focusing on the business logic rather than the integration [...]

The Platform as a Service (PaaS) Landscape, PaaS in the Enterprise

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a hosted application stack that can be used to build and deploy a web application with no servers to configure or administer.
PaaS changes the economics of application development and delivery by drastically reducing the development costs while simultaneously providing scalability, high availability and reduced maintenance. Some examples of PaaS [...]

What does Google Chrome portend for the enterprise and web 2.0?

( Browsers and Google and Products and Web 2.0 )

Google has launched its open source Web Browser dubbed Chrome yesterday. In a nutshell, Chrome uses a separate process space (a process space has its own memory space) for each tab, rather than, sharing the process space with other tabs. This runtime architecture makes it stable, faster and also isolates a page’s bugs from affecting [...]

To scale out or not using Gigaspaces

Gigaspaces is one of the leading vendors,  providing solutions to overcome the limitations of application performance/scaling due to bottlenecks at the database level or due to the application architecture following a tier based approach.
Gigaspaces received a series C funding of $ 5 million, lead by BRM capital, raising the total to $13 million. [...]