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It was about SOA all along! (Chapter 1)

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

from previous post about my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. Here are my thoughts after reading chapter 1 of the book " Mashup Corporations. This book illustrates its arguments with the help of a tale of a fictitious company Vorpal going through the process of implementing SOA.

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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

This approach goes a long way toward explaining how Amazon was able to externalize its computing infrastructure — first to Merchant.com, the company’s ecommerce-as-a-service platform for retailers to build their own online stores, and then to Amazon Web Services, a broader offering that has since taken a life of its own.

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Living Networks - Chapter 9: The Flow of Services - Reframing Digital and Professional Services

Trends in the Living Networks

For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition. Living Networks - Chapter 9: The Flow of Services. Reframing Digital and Professional Services. Tags: Living Networks book. However the principles remain the same.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

This approach reduces side effects and allows services to evolve at their own pace without impacting the other components of the overall system. Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies.

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