Reliability in distributed systems is determined by the weakest component, so even a minor internal function could bring your entire system down. Learn how stability patterns anticipate the hot spots ...

A core tenant of the RESTful API development doctrine is that a Uniform Resource Locator, as the name implies, should uniquely identify a resource on the server. Sadly, that simple concept is often ...

At the SD Best Practices conference, Dan Diephouse of MuleSource gave a talk about Patterns for RESTful SOA. We discussed this subject prior to his talk. While most of the software development world’s ...

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