ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-31

Today's Quote

"It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway."

-- Norman Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007)

Today's Links

• MySQL Embedded Online Forum
  event.on24.com
  
  Today! (2012-1-31) 9:00am PT / Noon ET
  
  Speakers:
  
  • Craig Sylvester - Principal MySQL Sales Engineer, Oracle
  • Matt Lord - Senior Principal MySQL Support Engineer, Oracle
  • Alexander Rubin - MySQL Technical Consulting Manager, Oracle
• Start Small, Grow Fast - Companion Checklist | Ronald van Luttikhuizen
  blog.vennster.nl
  
  Oracle ACE Director Ronald van Luttikhuizen shares additional content to supplement the SOA best-practices article Start Small; Grow Fast, co-written with Oracle ACE Edwin Biemond and Demed L'Her.
• Before jumping into cloud, learn from the SOA experience | Joe McKendrick
  www.zdnet.com
  
  Joe McKendrick interviews SOA-guru Thomas Erl.
• The Open Group Releases Standards for SOA Architects, Cloud Service Providers | Richard Seroter
  www.infoq.com
  
  As reported by InfoQ's Richard Seroter, "the Open Group recently published three standards that aid organizations that are building infrastructure-as-a-service offerings and service oriented architectures."
• Using kexec for fast reboots on Oracle Linux with UEK | Wim Coekaerts
  blogs.oracle.com
  
  "Kexec is part of an infrastructure that allows the Linux kernel to load a kernel directly," says Coekaerts