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Mitch Pronschinske01/24/13
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DZone Curated Links We Don't Want You To Miss (1/24/13)

Mozilla Unveils Firefox OS, Portal 2 levels become a test for engineers, Cyber War is raging, and all the NewSQL you thought had ACID guarantees, actually don't. Plus a lot more fun stuff in this curated link list.

Mitch Pronschinske01/23/13
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Streaming APIs: JSON vs XML and REST is King

Streaming APIs are becoming more popular because of the low latency they provide. What are the common protocols and data formats of these APIs? To find out I did a simple search on APIhub, the largest repository I found for streaming APIs. Here were the results of the 104 APIs that came up…

Mitch Pronschinske01/22/13
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Fast Integration With Legacy Systems Using Mule ESB

One of the biggest advantages of Mule ESB is its simplicity for integrating legacy systems. The great thing is that the Enterprise Integration patterns employed by Mule work efficiently on commodity hardware, virtual machines and even developers' laptops.

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/13
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Intro To Apache Qpid Proton

This is a quick introduction to Proton, which provides libraries for speaking AMQP. It's part of the Apache Qpid project.

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/13
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Introducing Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) 1.0

AMQP is the ideal protocol for passing business critical, real-time data across and between organizations and virtual cloud computing transactions environments in a secure manner.

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/13
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Spring 4.0 Looking to JEE 7 and Java 8. Will They Keep Their Edge?

Today we learned that Spring is making a major step in the next iteration of their core framework. SpringSource expects to reach the first milestone for 4.0 in April, with the GA scheduled for the end of the year.

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/13
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The Strangest APIs

There are some weird APIs out there. That's what Craig Neslage found out when he looked through APIhub - a giant hub for APIs similar to ProgrammableWeb. Let me give you an idea of the weird level we're talking about here...

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/13
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RabbitMQ Performance Breakdown

If you are shopping for a new messaging queue and looking at RabbitMQ, or if you're just looking for ways to improve your existing RabbitMQ use case, there are 2 articles you really need to look at.

Mitch Pronschinske01/16/13
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VMware's RabbitMQ vs. LinkedIn's Kafka

IT consultant Stuart Charlton had a rich analysis on these two technologies from VMware (RabbitMQ) and LinkedIn (Kafka). It suggest when you should use Kafka, when you should use RabbitMQ, what both are good at, and what neither are good at.

Mitch Pronschinske01/16/13
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How Many Queues Are Best For Max Performance? RabbitMQ

A generally useful question posed by Charming asks how many queues one should use in RabbitMQ for the maximum message passing throughput/performance. I thought I'd distill the answers by Brian Kelly and RobotEyes here for anyone who's worried about...

Mitch Pronschinske01/16/13
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Apache Isis Quickstart Archetype

Continuing with our intro to the newly anointed top-level project, Apache Isis, we now take a look at how to get started with Apache Isis running the Maven quickstart archetype. With it, you'll be able to generate your first Apache Isis application

Mitch Pronschinske01/16/13
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Apache Camel Monitoring: Jamod Loopback and Logging Demo

This screencast demonstrates the use of the Jamod component for Apache Camel for monitoring the status of Modbus devices. It also demonstrates how quick and easy it is to provide loopback functionality to a Modbus device without making wiring changes.

Mitch Pronschinske01/15/13
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Graph Search: A Sign of Things to Come

It seems like we've been speculating for such a long time that Facebook would release its own smartphone. And while we're still waiting to see that after years of rumors, today it's a surprise to many that Mark Zuckerberg called a press conference today and introduced Graph Search.

Mitch Pronschinske01/15/13
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Isis: Domain-Driven Apps in Java

In October, Apache Isis became a top-level project after 2 years in the incubator. Isis is an interesting project. It's a Java framework for developing domain-driven and RESTful applications using the Naked Objects pattern.

Mitch Pronschinske01/14/13
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The Developer Community Loses a Great Mind and an Advocate of Freedom

DZone was saddened by the news this weekend of Aaron Swartz's suicide. We wanted to make sure that we took some time, not to focus on the anger in the community right now, but to reflect on the brilliant community leader we've lost.