DevX: Your Information Source for Enterprise Application Development

NEWEST ARTICLES

IaaS Vendors' Best Shot at Beating AWS? Work Like Amazon

Published in blog | Published on October 3, 2012

Every IaaS product except Amazon Web Services is still mired in the vaporware stage in one way or another.

Why Semantic Technology Will Never Work 100%

Published in blog | Published on September 30, 2012

As long as we seek to eliminate ambiguity rather than embrace it, the semantic pot of gold will remain out of reach.

How to Avoid Techie Tunnel Vision

Published in blog | Published on September 23, 2012

The Cloud isn’t the best solution to every problem, just as SOA wasn’t.

COBOL, Programming Language of the Future

Published in blog | Published on September 19, 2012

Do you like programming? Do you want a good salary? How about job security? I have a skill for you.

If Not SQL, Then What?

Published in blog | Published on September 17, 2012

NoSQL databases are nonrelational, so we need to replace SQL. The question of the day, of course, is what to replace it with.

The Great Cloud Disconnect: Cost Savings vs. Business Agility

Published in blog | Published on September 13, 2012

Not only are software and hardware vendors -- as well as IaaS providers -- in the Cloud market playing with the wrong ball, they're in the wrong field.

Enterprise Architects in the Boardroom

Published in blog | Published on September 11, 2012

Shouldn't every lead Enterprise Architect be a Chief Architecture Officer? Without that executive authority, their EA policies are merely suggestions.

The Value of the PoC in Enterprise Architecture

Published in Architecture Zone | Published on September 6, 2012

With appropriate planning, management, and presentation a Proof-of-Concept can become a key part of a successful Enterprise Architecture

Hadoop in Practice: Using Sqoop to Import Data from MySQL

Published in Java Zone | Published on August 28, 2012

Hadoop in Practice author Alex Holmes explains how you can use the Sqoop relational database import / export system with Hadoop.

Waratek Helps You Move Java Into the Cloud

Published in Java Zone | Published on August 1, 2012

Today, we have large, multi-ported computing environments that can tolerate large workloads, and highly virtualized services--and we have the cloud. We almost certainly have existing Java code we want to move to our cloud, and will almost certainly want to add more Java, but now we'll want it to be native in the cloud. And that's what Waratek offers.