How indexing makes XPath fast
Recently, I built a MarkLogic web application using a lot of XSLT and a dash of XQuery. I was able to apply my understanding about how to optimize code to make a site like this perform better, so I thought I would share some of these insights with other beginners. Whenever MarkLogic evaluates an XPath […]
Hurry up, Take Your Time
The Buck Stops At The Brokerage
In Key West there is a famous cat show on the waterfront at sunset where the trainer (yes, cats can be trained) gives his performers their signals and they rush to slowly do his bidding. He says to them, often: "Hurry up, take your time." Such is the nature of...
Multi-tenant Distributed Process Environment
As part of the Internals of a Middleware Systems course (one of the two courses I teach at IIIT-Hyderabad), I wanted to dabble in multi-tenant service oriented architecture (SOA) as a course project. About two months back when I first thought of this as the project, I assumed it was...
Dude! You got SOAP in my filesystem! (pt. 2)
In part 1, we exposed data in XML documents residing in the file system via either SOAP or REST, using...
Belgacom and the Case for Business-oriented integration in Communications Providers
It is no secret that the telecommunications industry has been exploring various ways to tackle issues such as declining ARPU (average revenue per user) and increasing customer churn over the last five years. The keys to proactively addressing these issues are agility and responsiveness. For example,...
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