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Monday, March 09, 2009

SOA and Software Pipelines Book Reviews

Book reviews for Software Pipelines and SOA: Releasing the Power of Multi-Core Processing:

"Software Pipelines uncovers a new and unique way of software design for high-performance development. Where other methodologies and frameworks have previously been describing the problem, Software Pipelines is focusing on the solution. Simply put, Software Pipelines addresses the developer’s needs for parallel computing and uncovers the throughput offered by multi-core processors.”

— Filip Hanik, Senior Software Engineer, SpringSource, Inc.



"This is an essential read for any company and software developer serious about developing software that will survive scalability and longevity." Read more...

—Karol Blanchard, VP Engineering, Consumer Health Advisers



“There are some books that tout vision but provide no pragmatic, hands-on details. Software Pipelines and SOA offers a does of both. Isaacson is an authority and practitioner, who understands that the promise of SOA is not fulfilled simply by embracing an architectural style of loosely coupled, network-based services but in how the applications and services that support this architectural style are developed and deployed. This book will help support a pragmatic approach to SOA.”

—Dan Malks, VP, Partner Engineering, JackBe Enterprise Mashups



“Isaacson offers a fresh approach to componentize and parallelize software applications in a way that is easy to debug and easy to maintain. Using the high-level abstraction of Software Pipelines, development managers need not worry about the complexities of concurrent programming or the challenges in dealing with maintaining threads, interprocess communication or deadlocks. Any software architect dealing with performance and scalability issues with complex transactional flows must consider the Software Pipelines design paradigm.”

—Venkat Pula, Field Application Engineer, Telelogic, an IBM Company



"This text is a leader in [software pipelines] technology. With domain expertise and strong background in implementation - this technology will pave the road for years to come. It is current now and will be applicable for as long as businesses are interested in scalable, distributed computing."

—Nicole Nemer Ph.D, Software Consultant



“Multi-core computing offers a unique opportunity to deliver dramatic scalability in modern business applications; but the task is not an easy one, presenting significant challenges to the software developer. Software Pipelines provides an easy-to-implement, concrete strategy that enables service-oriented applications to really deliver on the promise of this new hardware paradigm. A must read for any developer or architect stepping up to the challenge of high-performance business transaction processing.”

— Henry Truong, Chief Technology Officer, TeleTech, Inc.

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Monday, March 02, 2009

Meet us at the Denver LAMP Meetup on the 4th




Are you in the Denver area this week? Meet Cory Isaacson on Wednesday at the Denver Lamp Meetup. Details here.

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Friday, July 25, 2008

Microsoft Acquires DatAllegro - Customers Lose

Microsoft has acquired DatAllegro. As well has creating problems for any DatAllegro customers that have avoided the Microsoft stack, the acquisition raises some interesting questions:

Why has it taken so long for Microsoft to realize that SQL Server does not scale well?

What will Microsoft say to DatAllegro's current customers that bought an open system based on the open source Ingres database and running on open source Linux?

Will the DatAllegro engineering team have to port its product over to .NET and how long will it take?

In addition to using Ingres and Linux, the DatAllegro engineering team presumably leveraged many open source products. Will these all have to be replaced due to Microsoft's stance against open source.

How will the DatAllegro's customers feel about the engineering team concentrating on a platform port that they probably do not want instead of delivering new features?

One fact is certain: the winners in this deal are DatAllegro's shareholders and the losers are DatAllegro's customers.

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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Our Software Pipelines Book is on Amazon


CodeFutures' CEO, Cory Isaacson has written a book called Software Pipelines: The Key to Capitalizing on the Multi-core Revolution that is now available for pre-order on Amazon.

The book is published by Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series.

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