Cloud, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Web Services, NoSQL, Web 2.0, JavaScript

Cloud computing, RESTful and SOAP Web Services, NoSQL, Platform as a Service (PaaS), JavaScript, HTML5 Web Sockets, mobile applications in the cloud, SEO and near infinite scalability are the focus of these entries.

Topics such as

• JavaScript Overview
• Comet based frameworks
• HTML5 Web Sockets Usage Scenarios
• Search engine optimization (SEO)
• Mobile applications in the Cloud
• Scaling applications to milions of users in the Cloud
• An Overview of Web Services SOAP (Big) Webservices and RESTful Web Services & related XML technologies such as: JAXP, JAXB, STAX, XSD, XSLT, XPath, performance and scalability aspects for web services, REST frameworks such as Jersey, Spring Framework, Apache CXF
• Dealing with Large Amounts of Data: Map Reduce, Non relational Databases and Internet Portals: Apache Hadoop, HDFS, Map Reduce, HBase, ZooKeeper, Paxos, MongoDB, Amazon SimpleDB
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

and more can be found in this series.

CONTENTS:

• A High Level Overview of JavaScript and AJAX
• A High Level Overview of Comet Frameworks and Architectures
• HTML5 Web Sockets Usage Scenarios
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Ranking
• Mobile Applications in the Cloud – Some Design and Testing Practices
• Scaling Applications to Millions of Users in the Cloud
• Web Services Overview
• Web Services Part 1 – SOAP Web Services Aspects in J2EE 1.4 and JAX-WS 2.0 Performance
• Web Services Part 2 – XML Technologies – Java API for XML Processing (JAXP)
• Web Services Part 3 – XML Technologies – Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB)
• Web Services Part 4 – XML Technologies – Streaming API for XML (StAX)
• Web Services Part 5 – XML Technologies – XML Schema, XPath and XSLT
• Web Services Part 6 – XML Technologies – Usage Scenarios and Performance Aspects
• Web Services Part 7 – Representational State Transfer (REST) Architecture
• Web Services Part 8 – RESTful Web Services – Implementation with Jersey and Glassfish
• Web Services Part 9 – RESTful Web Services – Implementation with Spring Framework
• Web Services Part 10 – RESTful Web Services – Implementation with Apache CXF
• Dealing with Large Amounts of Data – Map Reduce, NoSQL and Internet Portals
• Big Data Part 1 – RDBMS Scalability Limitations Lead to Large NoSQL Adoption
• Big Data Part 2 – Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
• Big Data Part 3 – Apache Hadoop Map Reduce Framework
• Big Data Part 4 – Apache HBase, a Partial Column Wide Data Store
• Big Data Part 5 – Apache ZooKeeper and Transaction Protocols
• Big Data Part 6 – MongoDB, a NoSQL Document Store
• Big Data Part 7 – Overview of Amazon Simple DB
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• PaaS Implementations from Major Players