‘Architecture’ posts

Post Merger Integration – Technology Strategy & Planning – Part 2

Posted by Optaros on 08 Jul 2008

Once a detailed transition or integration plan is created, efforts at this point should consider: Efficiency of Architecture: What is needed to bridge a particular gap between the baseline and vision?  Are architectural changes necessary and, if so, how will those changes be executed with little to no disruption to the business?   If integration is | View post »

Post Merger Integration – Technology Strategy & Planning – Part 1

Posted by Optaros on 08 Jul 2008

In general, when a company is acquired, there are two primary directions in which the new owners want to lead complementary or parallel technology:  Either one company’s systems are deemed superior and the other company’s users are migrated to the superior system, or the systems are deemed complementary and integration is prioritized.  With either approach, | View post »

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. Jeff talks about the unique position of Acquia in relation to Drupal as an “organic open source” project: | View post »

Open Source Ecommerce – Assembled

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 06 Feb 2008

In a very competitive sector, flexibility, extensibility and time to market have been the main drivers when we assembled the Wonderbox ecommerce platform. <!–break–> The SOA architecture we implemented (based on Mule ESB) integrates the different services provided by packages such as SugarCRM(CRM, SFA, Partner management), SAGE(finance), SCPA(logistics), ATT(Traceability), osCommerce(order tacking), Ogone(payment) as well as | View post »

Selective Cache Invalidation

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 10 Jan 2008

A common issue in a high traffic dynamic site is keeping the content fresh, but still utilizing a content cache to serve pages up quickly. When you're able to keep close track of which pages serve up a specific chunk of data, it's pretty easy to just invalidate those pages, but when you have a | View post »

Concurrency and Transaction Isolation in MySQL

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 10 Jan 2008

Often, when a site allows users to add and update content, you run into concurrency issues. We recently ran into a problem where double clickers were causing two transactions to fire. For most of the system, this is fine, but many parts of our system use a "get_or_create" method to create records. We were getting | View post »

Alfresco Architecture at City of Lausanne

Posted by Optaros on 09 Jan 2008

In November 2007, we delivered the final presentation of our work for City of Lausanne (Switzerland). The objective of our work was to analyze their needs and to recommend a high level architecture for implementing Alfresco as their core DMS solution. Context Ville de Lausanne is an Alfresco Customer who had a previous experience in | View post »

The Room 2.0 architecture as the perfect example on how to get the best of both Java and PHP worlds?

Posted by Optaros on 20 Dec 2007

With a Java Enterprise back-end (EJB3/JSR-181 service layer on JBoss Application Server), and a user interface that relies on a LAMP stack the Room 2.0 assembly as the perfect example on how to get the best of both Java and PHP worlds. The back-end leveraging JEE persistence, transaction management, integration of payment, hotel management systems | View post »

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