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		<title>Service Versioning for cheapskates with Feature Flags</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to propose a best practice for rolling out new features in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Traditionally, when we roll out a major new feature, we often end up causing a breaking change to the service. We&#8217;re then faced with a choice: (a) Force all our consumers to upgrade to the new version, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3127698&#038;post=3274&#038;subd=smart421&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret to Amazon&#8217;s Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I hear this story, it makes me smile. From Kim Lane over at API Evangelist: […] one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate, sometime back around 2002 (give or take a year): All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces. There [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3127698&#038;post=3231&#038;subd=smart421&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Transport Ticketing standards</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/mobile-transport-ticketing-standards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 08:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smaley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pain you have to go through to travel abroad has always bugged me. I went on a Swiss walking holiday last year and had to buy our rail passes months in advance and there were so many options and routes from various airports that my wife and I burned many an hour discussing alternatives. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3127698&#038;post=3236&#038;subd=smart421&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not even standing room only at the London AWS Summit</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/not-even-standing-room-only-at-the-london-aws-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Meehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the leading enterprise AWS Partner in the UK  ;o)  Smart421 had a big presence at the London AWS Summit last week (23 April). Several of our customers also attended and one of them, Steve Howes, Chief Executive of Rail Settlement Plan part of Association of Train Operating Companies &#8211; ATOC) presented as part of the 2nd keynote, and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3127698&#038;post=3220&#038;subd=smart421&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Third Generation Outsourcing &#8211; SIAM</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/third-generation-outsourcing-siam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Brazill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was great to see National Rail Enquiries (NRE) win an award at the European Outsourcing Association Awards in Amsterdam last Friday (26 April). In recognition of their SIAM outsourcing strategy (Service Integration and Management), NRE won the award for Best Multi-sourcing Project of the Year , beating strong category finalists 60k and Centrica (Centrica won [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3127698&#038;post=3205&#038;subd=smart421&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SyncIpswich 2 brought us Continuous Delivery and Windows Azure Cloud</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/syncipswich-2-brought-us-continuous-delivery-and-windows-azure-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smaley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! SyncIpswich&#8217;s second meetup and around 80 people crammed into the Eastern Enterprise Hub in the James Hehir Building at University Campus Suffolk. Many of the attendees were working for local behemoths like BT but there were also a good mix of bootstrappers, Start Ups and tech entrepreneurs with all kinds of backgrounds (even spotted a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3127698&#038;post=3192&#038;subd=smart421&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Optimising big data processing</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/optimising-big-data-processing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Meehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you lift the lid on what is going on in the big data analytics world, the pace of development and innovation is phenomenal. Yesterday I heard some more about the range of optimisations and ongoing development being progressed for Apache Hive and Hadoop itself, and it really reminds me of the pace of innovation [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3127698&#038;post=3189&#038;subd=smart421&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile First might yet be the salvation of WebSphere</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/excerpts-from-march-2013-wug-at-ibm-south-bank-london/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>muralian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Integration architects and solutions designers interested in IBM&#8217;s WebSphere technology stack converged once again for the Spring (!) gathering 2013 WUG at IBM Forum Centre, South Bank, London on  21 March.  I was one of them. Trends in the WebSphere Ecosystem &#8211; Innovation/Evolution From my perspective, WebSphere seem to retain good ground mainly due to innovation &#38; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3127698&#038;post=3173&#038;subd=smart421&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures with YUI at Front End Suffolk</title>
		<link>http://smart421.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/adventures-with-yui-at-front-end-suffolk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Meehan</dc:creator>
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		<title>APIs: Five things you need to know about the Open Travel Alliance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the OTA? The OpenTravel Alliance provides a community where companies in the electronic distribution supply chain work together to create an accepted structure for electronic messages, enabling suppliers and distributors to speak the same interoperability language, trading partner to trading partner. What does the OTA look like? A set of XML schemas (XSDs) [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smart421.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3127698&#038;post=3135&#038;subd=smart421&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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