At Groupon we utilize a ‘Pluggable Test Infrastructure’, where we express tests using high-level behaviors, and avoid precise web actions like “click”. We build tests around behaviors and outcomes. The infrastructure “plugs in” multiple test implementations at runtime for multiple uses of the product, like web, mobile, API, and International.

This short video show you how to deploy a PHP application to Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.

This video presents a novel approach for developing client-side extensions to Vaadin with Scala.

This video shows how to quickly and easily setup an Oracle Database 11g on Amazon RDS, the Relational Database Service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

This video describes what the essential components of a cloud service are. Then it presents lessons learned at Heroku in designing, deploying and supporting a cloud service for your favorite technology.

Guillaume Nodet talks about his history in open source, tips on how to get started with Aparche ServiceMix, use cases for ServiceMix, and what’s new in ServiceMix 4.0.

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Related resources:
* Apache ServiceMix Home Page
* Apache ServiceMix Evaluation

This video introduces Domain Event-Driven Architecture, how it helps SOA, and how it has been used by Unibet to make its architecture less coupled, resulting in better performance and scalability. Norberg offers practical advice, presenting technical details of the technologies used: JMS, XML, JSON, Google Protocol Buffers, ActiveMQ and Spring.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Domain-Event-Driven-Architecture

Scala is a hybrid function and object-oriented language that is rapidly gaining traction in becoming the “next” Java in JVM-based language evolution. GridGain is one of the most rapidly growing cloud development platforms for JVM-based languages. Most of the presentation will be devoted to live coding demonstration of writing basic MapReduce application in Scala using GridGain middleware. All coding during demonstration will be done live. Overview of grid and cloud computing concepts as well as notion of Native Cloud Applications will be discussed. Short intro into Scala language will also …

Built with concepts from Amazon and Google, used by Facebook, Cassandra is another prominent utility in the big data toolkit. In this Cassandra and EC2 talk, we will go over the current distributed database scene, draw comparisons between the relational and NoSQL models, and we’ll see Cassandra at work, with a demo of Cassandra on Amazon EC2. Finally, we’ll look at the Cassandra integration with Hadoop MapReduce and Pig.
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/cassandra-running-distributed-databases-on-ec2

This presentation attempts to clear up some of the misunderstandings surrounding SOA considering the fact that many implementations are labeled as “SOA” but are not. It does that by describing an SOA journey from establishing a route (characteristics, goals, benefits), planning it (service inventory), making it (service design) and arriving at the destination (measuring success, governance).
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/SOA-Solution-Evaluation-Criteria