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Oracle Video Whiteboard sessions on SOA and Application Grid: Improve response times for customer facing applications, reduce load on backend systems, and build apps that scale with predictable latency

By david.chappell on July 24, 2009 11:01 AM

Hi all, I recently took a cue from Mike Piech, who has been doing some video white board sessions, and decided to do some of my own that discuss how customers are using SOA and Application Grid together to increase...

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Cost-Benefit Analysis: Using SOA and Application Grid to both enhance performance and availability of customer facing applications and reduce mainframe usage charges

By david.chappell on July 24, 2009 10:12 AM

I have been working with Carl Dumont, the CTO of Wellpoint, for some time now on integrating Application Grid into Wellpoint’s SOA projects. Next week, at Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference in San Diego, I will co-present with Carl on two exciting projects that both involve using Oracle Application Grid in a SOA environment to cache results from service calls to dramatically reduce load on backend systems.

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JavaOne XTP: Patterns for Scaling SOA, WOA, and REST Predictably with a Java(TM) Technology-Based Data Grid (TS-5154)

By david.chappell on June 1, 2009 5:57 PM

Come check out my talk at JavaOne this week on Wed at 11:05. Its entitled - "XTP: Patterns for Scaling SOA, WOA, and REST Predictably with a Java(TM) Technology-Based Data Grid (TS-5154)" Here is an excerpt from the session abstract...

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The XML Grid: Using an Application Grid with large XML documents to build SOA applications that scale linearly and predictably

By david.chappell on May 27, 2009 4:15 PM

An article that I co-authored, which highlites the use of large XML documents in a SOA using Application Grid,has just been published online in SOA Journal. The article includes a downloadable example that shows how to use JAXB and a...

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New Podcast on OTN: Interview with "SOA Design Patterns" authors

By david.chappell on May 21, 2009 3:50 PM

I recently did an interview along with co-author's Thomas Erl and Clemens Utschig-Utschig regarding the SOA Design Patterns book that we recently published. The interview is located here as a podcast. If you can get past the first couple of...

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Techtarget Survey: SOA Still on the Rise

By david.chappell on March 23, 2009 10:00 AM

Among the survey respondents, 49% said their organization has one or more SOA projects under way, and 60% characterize their current or future SOA projects as enterprise level as opposed to departmental/divisional level (21%), or single, isolated projects (19%).

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New SOA Design Patterns book by Thomas Erl

By david.chappell on January 16, 2009 2:21 PM

A new book on SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl, which I helped contribute to, has just been published by Prentice Hall. This has been an industry wide effort which included contributors and reviewers from many leaders in technology. The...

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SOA ROI - Case Studies across various industries

By david.chappell on January 8, 2009 5:27 PM

Just to let folks be aware that SOA, the architecture-formerly-known-as-SOA, and the architecture-until-recently-known-as-SOA is alive-and-well, I gathered up some success stories that show tangible ROI from recent SOA projects across the industry, which include some Oracle customers. I came across...

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SOA Still Alive and Well--Sell it to the Business

By david.chappell on January 8, 2009 4:29 PM

In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!". In her posting, she...

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Oracle Magazine Names Editors Choice Award for “Green IT Architect”; A TechTarget writeup on our talk at OpenWorld

By david.chappell on October 24, 2008 12:08 PM

Back on Earth Day 2008 I blogged about how Verizon Wireless is “Going Green” with SOA and EDA, and measuring the resulting ROI by reduction in tonnage of hardware in the datacenter. Reduction of hardware means less power consumption from...

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New SOA on App Grid article published on eBizQ: Making SOA Leaner and Cleaner to Maximize Profits

By david.chappell on October 24, 2008 11:00 AM

I recently teamed up with my colleague Mohamad Afshar to publish an article on eBizq around the ongoing subject of what we're now calling "SOA on App Grid" (a.k.a. SOA Grid). In part 1, we talk about a use case...

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Verizon Wireless Case Study at my OpenWorld session Thursday

By david.chappell on September 23, 2008 12:49 PM

Back in April I blogged about a customer, Verizon Wireless, who was "Going Green with SOA, EDA, RIA, and Web 2.0" This Thursday, Sept 25 at 10:30am Marriott 14/15, come and listen to Verizon talk about their application in the...

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My SOA on App Grid Session at OpenWorld, featuring customers!

By david.chappell on September 23, 2008 12:26 PM

This afternoon at OpenWorld I have a session which features customers using SOA on App Grid (a.k.a. SOA Grid) technologies and concepts. Today's session at OracleDevelop (S299392 - Beyond Performance: Pushing Transaction Processing, J2EE, and SOA to the Limit and...

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