Designing Enterprise IT Systems with REST

Summary

REST describes an architectural style that raises the level of abstraction from low-level message passing to hypermedia. Yet this is often the most difficult constraint for architects and developers to understand when designing system-to-system interactions.

This session explores the design of Elastra's hypermedia system, which enables the provisioning and management of decentralized IT services. We'll discuss the approaches we took to handling semantics, transactions, and security in a large, multi-organization RESTful system, the problems we ran into, and the scale & agility benefits of such a system. 

Bio
Stuart Charlton is the Chief Software Architect for Elastra, a provider of Cloud Computing software infrastructure. Stuart specializes in the areas of systems architecture, RESTful web architecture, and data warehousing. He is the co-author of CodeNotes for J2EE, and has written for leading online publications.

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