Best of this Week Summary 9 August - 15 August 2010

• A quick tutorial creating a Spring Roo application and deploying it on Google App Engine. And related to that, an article deploying Spring Security on GAE.
  


• A "concise summary of the key points of API design, in easily digestible form" by Joshua Bloch.
  


• Finally: jQuery is also working on a version that is for mobile devices.
  


• A short comparison of Google App Engine and Amazon EC2. They are not really comparable, but still useful when deciding where to host your site/service.
  


• A Big Data analytics equivalent for LAMP (Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and PHP) architecture based on Hadoop. Mentions Adobe and Facebook using several components. Interesting is the mentioning of Facebook which created a web-based tool, HiPal, that enables non-engineers to run queries on large data sets, view reports, and test hypotheses using familiar web browser interfaces. More details on how Facebook uses Hadoop can be found here.
  


• Gartner released their new 2010 Hype Cycle. Always useful to see if you missed any new trends :)