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API Development Tips
Organisations who are paying attention already know they need to have an open web API, and many already have under development or in the wild. Make sure you haven’t been caught by the pitfalls of many early API releases. Multiple points of failure: The 5 tips Test it all Plan for future versions Embrace standards…
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Website performance monitoring tool
Monitoring systems allow you to monitor changes to your front-end code base over time, catching any regression issues and monitoring the ongoing effects of any performance optimisation changes. Easy to use dashboards are a must when it comes to monitoring the state of your web apps. Companies like Calibre or SpeedCurve offer this as a…
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The Little Manual of API Design
This manual gathers together the key insights into API design that were discovered through many years of software development on the Qt application development framework at Trolltech (now part of Nokia). When designing and implementing a library, you should also keep other factors in mind, such as efficiency and ease of implementation, in addition to…
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Four Great InfoQ Presentations
Hope you like these recommendations and if you know of any other good tech-related video, then please let me know. 1. Developing Expertise: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep One of my favourites. In this presentation Dave Thomas (The Pragmatic Programmer) talks about expanding people’s expertise in their domains of interest by not treating them uniformly as…
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Detect Replay Attacks in your Web Services
Many threats that are common to distributed systems are common to Web services as well. There are a few specific threats associated with the Web services processing model, such as: Message replays: An attacker may re-play an entire message or a part of a SOAP message. Man in the middle attack: An attacker may view…
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How to Build a Web Hosting Infrastructure on EC2
Mike Brittain wrote: In the months prior to leaving Heavy, I led an exciting project to build a hosting platform for our online products on top of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). We eventually launched our newest product at Heavy using EC2 as the primary hosting platform. We set out to build a fairly standard…
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6 Different Ways to Testing a Web Service
This tutorial by Charitha Kankanamge takes you through different approaches to testing Web services. There are multiple approaches to invoking Web services, regardless of the platform or technology used to built such services. If a service consumer has access to the contract (WSDL) file of a given Web service, then, that particular service can be…
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