Hooking Stuff Together - Programming the Cloud

Summary
This talk describes the constraints of connected systems design and presents common design patterns to address some of the challenges developers will face as they spend more time connecting services and components instead of developing new ones. Along the way he asks: Is coupling really so bad? Why is REST popular? Do we need distributed transactions?

Bio
Gregor Hohpe is a software architect with Google, Inc. He is a thought leader on asynchronous messaging and service-oriented architectures, co-author of "Enterprise Integration Patterns," "Integration Patterns," and "Enterprise Solution Patterns." Gregor was nominated a Microsoft MVP Solution Architect for his contributions to the developer community and is a member of the patterns community.

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