SOA Book Store - I

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style for enabling business agility in the age of rapid and constant change. Here are some good books on the subject, by one of the leading authors - Thomas Erl - in this space.

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services is seemingly the pioneer in the space of cloud-based services. Ever since the hype around Cloud Computing began, Amazon has been putting together a number of cloud-based services that leverage Amazon's proven and reliable infrastructure.

While each product and service needs to be understood in detail, here's a quick overview of the Amazon Web Services portfolio.
(Tip: The following is an interactive mindmap - use the options below to navigate or optimize your view).

HTML 5 - A Choice for Web 2.0+

HTML 5 is the latest revision of the HTML standard and has been structured to improve support for 'Web 2.0' capabilities of today's web. This includes support for the latest multimedia, apart from a number of new language constructs and improvements to continue enabling humans and computers to process.

Here's a comprehensive look into HTML v5.

How to build a html5 websites.v1

Google html5 Tutorial

A summary of some major differences between HTML v4.x and HTML 5, can be found here.

Social Analytics - A New Era ...

Okay, so we all have now become familiar with Social Media - and it's hard to get by without coming across (annoying?) emails and banners on web pages, that promise to teach you the magic of 'Social Media Marketing' and how it can do wonders for you or your business. Sure, there are success stories, and social media is undoubtedly a new channel force to reckon with in these times. Web pages and sites is probably passe.

But, if you are seriously considering leveraging the so called power of this new channel, as you delve deeper, you're sure to ask (or be asked), if there's any way to analyze - and we mean, quantitatively - the ROI of embarking on this Social Media journey. In the good old days of the pre-Web 2.0 era, IT and business was used to implementing Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. Or, Analytics, as its more rightly called.

So, in this new age of social media hyperactivity, what's going to be needed? You guessed it - Social Analytics! Get a sense of what this is, through this wonderful presentation here:

Blog Indiana 2010 - Social Analytics: A New Era of Web Measurement (#EpicMetrics #BIN2010)

View more presentations from Brandon Prebynski.

Castles in the Cloud: Developing with Google App Engine

This one can be termed as one from the archives. But, nevertheless, it has a lot of useful information and a good overview of what is (and isn't?) in Google App Engine.

Castles in the Cloud: Developing with Google App Engine

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