Per a recent posting on programmable web, the number of Web API’s has crossed the one thousand mark, an important milestone in the web world. The example posts mentioned below support the increasing importance of having a Web API.
1. Sixty percent of eBay product listings come from their API
2. Twitter’s API processes 10 [...]
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a provider’s network of servers situated around the globe to effectively deliver web content to the end users. A CDN is the best solution in addressing inherent performance and scalability problems associated with delivering of web content on a global scale. While a CDN is an appropriate solution to [...]
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 [...]
I use tinyurl and dwarfurl for reducing a large url into a smaller one. Though dwarfurl provides additional features such as statistics on the shrunk URL (for example number of hits), I have found acessing the site to be really slow sometimes. However what happens when any of these services are not available ? Obviously [...]
In a Java development project significant amount of time is spent in writing and debugging JSP’s. Probably this can be reduced by using a tool called JSP Weaver. The reduction in time is by eliminating “the Java generation and compilation stage by interpreting the JSP files on-the-fly”. JSP Weaver is currently supported [...]