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Parameterized database query results as a RESTful data service…
Posted 27 May, 2008 by Chris in REST Services, SnapLogic
That’s a catchy title? Don’t you think?
Lately we’ve been talking a lot about high level capabilities of SnapLogic and some of the interesting things that can be done with it. Googleing HTML meta data, access by desktop applications, LinkedIn Mashups, all the rest. But we’ve gotten a bunch of basic questions like: All I want to do is expose my database queries as a service? How do I do that? How can I parametrize it so that I don’t have to create a bunch of separate Resources all doing basically the same thing?
Boring? Perhaps. But sometimes those are the kinds of problems that people need to solve every day.
So we made another screencast demo. This one shows how you can use SnapLogic to create a set of RESTful data services where each URI accesses a database and responds with the result of a parametrized query.
Check it out here.
BarCamp Boston
Posted 21 May, 2008 by Mike Pittaro in Community, Conference
I spent the weekend at BarCamp Boston, and had a great time hacking and socializing with the rest of the attendees.
There were 256 people registered on the Wiki, official attendance was ‘226 unique humans’ over Saturday and Sunday. For many people, this was their first BarCamp Boston event. I estimate 70% of the [...]
Amazon Web Services bandwidth canard
Posted 18 May, 2008 by Chris in web services
I came across the Amazon Web Services bandwidth graphic again today over at AWS blog.
I remember back in January when I first saw these stats I wondered why would anyone compare these two values? They have almost no relation to one another and don’t reveal much (if anything) about true comparative metrics like users, [...]
That pesky hurdle rate…
Posted 16 May, 2008 by Chris in misc
Nice tidbit in today’s Deal Journal about clawbacks kicking in for Blackstone. The sad thing is that if returns really do drop, and these clawback ever kick in, they could get a do over by starting another fund. I’ve been wondered about this for a while.
GPL the Ultimate Capitalist’s Tool….
Posted 16 May, 2008 by Chris in GPL, Open Source
Interesting thread over at Java Posse about the irony of how the GPL has somehow been co-opted by SpringSource to achieve their business objectives.
This should come as no surprise to anyone that’s familiar with the FSF and the GPL. They’ve never been against capitalism (in spite of some people’s view of Richard Stallman). [...]