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Over the past few days I have been having some issues with my Twitter account. Beyond the well known pauses in the service, outages, etc there are some less known but more annoying problems with twitter search. It turns out that many accounts don’t show up in search at all. Therefore, if you are one …
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I read a lot of articles on technology and it always amazes me the degree of heated debate that goes on in the blogosphere, social media and elsewhere over simple definitions. What caught my attention today was the number of posts and comments on Twitter about what was or was not Cloud. So the question …
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This is the first in a series of articles on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that I will be doing over the coming weeks. Given that every middleware vendor defines SOA differently and every Systems Architect seems to have their own definitions for various aspects of an SOA, I am going to use this first article …
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Over the last few decades, the technologies we used and the approaches we took to make our systems reliable have undergone a steady evolution. In some cases the technology has just gotten more reliable through quality control at the hardware level (consider an Intel Blade today compared to my 1986 Zenith 8088 that I wrote …
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