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Restfs: The Filesystem As A Connector Abstraction For Flexible Resource And Service Composition, Joseph P. Kaylor, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal
Restfs: The Filesystem As A Connector Abstraction For Flexible Resource And Service Composition, Joseph P. Kaylor, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal
Konstantin Läufer
The broader context for this chapter comprises business scenarios requiring resource and/or service composition, such as (intra-company) enterprise application integration (EAI) and (inter-company) web service orchestration. The resources and services involved vary widely in terms of the protocols they support, which typically fall into remote procedure call (RPC)~\citeBirrell84implementingremote, resource-oriented (HTTP~\citeFielding96hypertexttransfer and WEBDAV~\citewebdav) and message-oriented protocols. By recognizing the similarity between web-based resources and the kind of resources exposed in the form of filesystems in operating systems, we have found it feasible to map the former to the latter using a uniform, configurable connector layer. Once a remote resource has been …
Initial Experience In Moving Key Academic Department Functions To Social Networking Sites, David Dennis, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Läufer
Initial Experience In Moving Key Academic Department Functions To Social Networking Sites, David Dennis, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Läufer
Konstantin Läufer
We discuss our initial experience with the transition from conventional technology to social networking sites and other cloud-backed sites for three core business functions of an academic computer science department at a mid-size private university: course management, research collaboration, and community engagement. We first discuss the social/cultural context that informs our technology choices, as well as the evolution of the technology choices themselves. Then, we identify the targeted department functions and their actors. Next, we describe the past and present technical architectures used to support these functions. We conclude with a discussion of our preliminary experience with this transition and …