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Workflow Systems

What's on Your Hard Drive?
Ain't that the truth!
A Conversation with Steve Ross-Talbot
Ever heard of the pi-calculus? This man thinks it can revolutionize BPM.
Going with the Flow
Workflow systems can provide value beyond automating business processes.
Peter De Jong, Microsoft

System Performance

It Isn't Your Fathers Realtime Anymore
The Misuse and Abuse of a Noble Term
Phillip Laplante, Penn State University
Modern Performance Monitoring
Today's diverse and decentralized computer world demands new thinking about performance monitoring and analysis.
Mark Purdy, Pursoft
Performance Anti-Patterns
When tackling system performance, it's best to know what mistakes to avoid.
Bart Smaalders, Sun Microsystems
queuecasts

Business Process Minded
Oracle's Edwin Khodabakchian explains how the standardization of SOAs and the evolution of BPEL are coming together to create flexible software architectures that can adapt to the business rather than making the business adapt to the software.

Large Scale Systems: Best Practices
Aeysis Chief Architect Jarod Jenson discusses best practices in building large scale systems and networks.

Automatic for the People
Listen in as Cassatt CTO Rob Gingell discusses the new breed of systems and network management tools that have the potential to save on labor costs by automating much of the management process.

Queue Blogs

Charlene O'Hanlon
Coming Around Full Circle
RFID Realities
A Jean-ius Idea? You Decide
Terry Coatta
Computers Still Cool (and Profitable too)
Fixated on Statelessness
To Specify or Not To Specify

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Most Recent Topics:

Workflow Systems
System Performance
Systems of Scale
Social Computing
Semi-Structured Data
Multiprocessors
Enterprise Distributed Computing
Security
Mobile Applications
Databases

Most Popular Articles:

Game Development: Harder Than You Think
What makes you think that creating alternative worlds is all fun and games?
Jonathan Blow, Game Development Consultant
more in Performance Management
A Conversation with Phil Smoot
An engineer at Hotmail discusses the challenges of keeping one of the Web’s largest and oldest Internet services running 24/7.
more in QA/Debugging
Death by UML Fever
Are you (or your developers) sick?
Alex E. Bell, The Boeing Company
more in Developer Tools

Latest Interviews:

A Conversation with Steve Ross-Talbot
Ever heard of the pi-calculus? This man thinks it can revolutionize BPM.
more in Performance Management
A Conversation with Jarod Jenson
Tales from the trenches with a former Enron performance guru
more in Performance Management
A Conversation with Phil Smoot
An engineer at Hotmail discusses the challenges of keeping one of the Web’s largest and oldest Internet services running 24/7.
more in QA/Debugging

Latest Curmudgeon:

Anything Su Doku, I Can Do Better
The new puzzle craze from Japan is sweeping the world, and testing our Boolean logic.
Stan Kelly-Bootle, Author
more in QA/Debugging
Stop Whining About Outsourcing!
The facts about IT job growth show no reason to complain.
David Patterson, ACM
more in Security
The Cost of Data
Semi-Structured Data is the Result of Economics.
Chris Suver, Microsoft
more in QA/Debugging

Latest Kode Vicious:

Gettin’ Your Kode On
What language you use has very little to do with the quality of the code.
Kode Vicious
more in Programming Languages
The Doctor is In
You get back a pointer to destination, which presumably you passed to the API in the first place. The logic for this escapes me.
Kode Vicious
more in QA/Debugging
Kode Vicious Unscripted
Computers make it too easy to copy data.
more in QA/Debugging
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