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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. The founders had noticed that in many companies, product designers worked in a very detached manner from the rest of production. Strategically, IT doesn't matter. Value creation through data.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. I worked with the engineering team that was designing the backplane connector, but the project was eventually cancelled when Sun ran out of money. He hasn’t changed.

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) was hyped in the mid-2000s as a modern take on distributed systems architecture, which through modular design would provide productivity through loose coupling between collaborative services—so-called "WebServices"—communicating through externally published APIs. The rise of enterprise integration patterns.