Videos tagged with Enterprise Architecture

Summary In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Glassfish architect Jerome Dochez talks to Charles Humble about plans for Java EE 7. The interview covers what Java EE 6 has achieved, possible additional profiles, the impact of the cloud, new features planned for the platform, and modularity. Bio Jerome Dochez has been working on Java EE since 2000. He is the architect for Glassfish, and led...

Summary RESTful architectures are the subject of this presentation, specifically the way they are particularly attractive in solving many financial services integration problems. Kirk will present the advantages of a RESTful architecture to develop integrated systems in the financial services arena, in particular leveraging infrastructure, skills, and systems already in place at these firms. Bi...

Summary Mike Daley and Stewart Marshall, both Technical Architects for British Airways, present the ba.com architecture, the challenges faced to build it, and the tools used. They describe how they created an SOA comprising document-based services. Bio Stewart Marshall and Mike Daley are Technical Architects at British Airways. Stewart's current interests include RIA technologies and the archit...

Summary Craig Weissman, Chief Software Architect at Salesforce.com, presents their multi-tenant architecture, one shared database and one application stack, that has proven to scale well over the years. Bio Craig Weissman is Chief Software Architect at salesforce.com where he has designed and built many aspects of the multi-tenant software-as-as-service development platform. Areas of database s...

Summary In the opening keynote at SpringOne Europe 2009, Rod Johnson wondered if Java innovation is going to be stifled by latest Oracle acquisition and expressed his belief that Java will continue to evolve outside of Sun as it has done for the last few years. As proof he mentioned: Grails, Roo, a tool for improved developer productivity, a free STS, tc Server and dm Server. Bio Rod is one of ...

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...

Summary Dan Hanley, of Magus, discusses the design principles, architectures and infrastructure of the SaaS frameworks used by Magus to rapidly develop and deploy large-scale, web-based, applications for clients. Along the way he discusses the components of their technology stack and the evolution of their methodology. Bio Dan Hanley is Chief Technology Officer at Magus, responsible for the dev...

Summary In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talked about administering thousands of web servers from a system’s architect viewpoint. He mostly detailed the performance counter monitoring used by MySpace, the system profiler and the system administration site demoing the tools for the audience to see how it works. Bio Dan Farino ...

Summary In this presentation, Ian Flint, Director of Operations for Bix, Yahoo!’s online contest service, tries to explain the infrastructure and architecture employed by Yahoo! to keep going a multitude of servers running of different platforms and offering different services. Bio Ian Flint is a 15-year veteran of Silicon Valley. He has been on the founding team of two successful startup...

Summary In this interview taken by InfoQ’s Ryan Slobojan, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talks about the system architecture and the challenges faced when building a very large online community. Because MySpace is built almost entirely on the .NET Framework, Dan explains how a .NET product scales on hundreds of servers. Bio Dan Farino is the Chief Systems Architect at MyS...