"Usability Testing Essentials presents a practical, step-by-step approach to learning the entire process of planning and conducting a usability test. It explains how to analyze and apply the results and what to do when confronted with budgetary and time restrictions. This is the…
Service Oriented Architecture is a misunderstood topic in IT. This work describes the concepts, specifications, and standards behind service orientation and Web Services. Intended for enterprises adopting SOA, it includes advice for service-oriented analysis, planning, and desig…
This book fills a gap between high-level overview texts that are often too general and low-level detail oriented technical handbooks that lose sight the "big picture". This book discusses SOA from the low-level perspective of middleware, various XML-based technologies, and basic…
This volume includes broad and up-to-date coverage of the principles and practice in this fast moving area, covering key issues in the debate between components and web services as the way forward for industry. The depth of coverage should enable students to evaluate existing di…
"Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability …
Overview: Learn how to develop REST-style and SOAP-based web services and clients with this quick and thorough introduction. This hands-on book delivers a clear, pragmatic approach to web services by providing an architectural overview, complete working code examples, and short …
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Essentials of writing a news story -- Creating a publishing platform -- Still pictures -- Audio and podcasting -- Video -- Writing news stories and reporting live -- Publishing platforms for live reporting -- User-generated content and email bulletins -- Publishing platforms for…
The authors tackle the issues of scalability from processes, to people, to performance, to the highly technical.
"Going beyond SOA, enterprises can gain even greater agility by implementing event-driven architectures (EDAs) that automatically detect and react to significant business events. However, EDA planning and deployment is complex, and even experienced SOA architects and developers …
Improving Business Agility with EDA Going beyond SOA, enterprises can gain even greater agility by implementing event-driven architectures (EDAs) that automatically detect and react to significant business events. However, EDA planning and deployment is complex, and even experie…
