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Indispensable Patterns and Insights for Making Mashups Work in Production Environments

Using new mashup tools and technologies, enterprise developers can impose their own APIs on everything from Web sites and RSS feeds to Excel and PDF files–transforming the Web into their own private information source. In Mashup Patterns, Michael Ogrinz systematically reveals the right ways to build enterprise mashups and provides useful insights to help development organizations avoid the mistakes that cause mashups to fail.

Drawing on extensive experience building business-critical mashups, Ogrinz offers patterns and realistic guidance for every stage of the mashup development lifecycle and virtually every key issue developers, architects, and managers will face. Each pattern is documented with a practical description, specific use cases, and crucial insights into the stability of mashups built with it. Orgrinz concludes by presenting six start-to-finish case studies demonstrating mashup patterns at work in actual enterprise projects.

Coverage includes:

• Understanding the relationships among mashups, portals, SOA, EAI/EII, and Software as a Service

• Implementing core activities such as data management, surveillance, clipping, transformation, enrichment, publication, and promotion

• Optimizing security, privacy, accessibility, usability, and performance

• Managing mashup development, from planning and governance through integration, testing, and deployment

• Enhancing basic mashups with search, language translation, workflow support, and other improvements

• Performing effective load and regression testing

• Avoiding “anti-patterns” that cause enterprise mashups to fail

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 9 Ratings

Good book but not really mashups - 2009-05-27
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This book is a good book but it really isn't about mashups. This is about data integration patterns (filter, aggregation, integration, etc.) are all data integration patterns that have been around for years. I think this book misses the real value of mashups. It doesn't focus on the ease of assembling a new application by sourcing existing systems capabilities including data, logic, and presentation. But there are some valuable patterns around data integration and a couple like Dashboard that are fundamentally mashups. The patterns also need more structure. He mixes patterns on technology, functionality, use cases, and best practices without distinguishing them as such. It is an informative book but calling it mashup patterns is a bit misleading.

Specific real-world examples make this a top pick for any computer collection - 2009-07-19
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MASHUP PATTERNS: DESIGNS AND EXAMPLES FOR THE MODERN ENTERPRISE tells web providers how to use new mashup tools and techniques to add APIs on everything from RSS feeds to PDF files and Excel. Programming students learn how to apply software development basics to mashups, choosing ways to support enterprise efforts and offering patterns and guidance for all stages of mashup development cycles. Specific real-world examples make this a top pick for any computer collection.

One of a kind - 2009-05-20
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One of the challenges with Web 2.0 technologies is too much marketing hype, not enough substance. Ogrinz does a great job of cutting through the noise and shows real world examples of how mashup technologies can be game changers for an enterprise.

Highly recommend this book.

Excellent Strategy Book - 2009-05-18
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Ogrinz does an excellent job explaining how Mashups can unlock both typical and unique business problems through technology innovation. Instead of the worn out canned responses for common problems - he provides a new way to think about business and technology. The book doesn't force you to accept the concepts, instead each chapter provides a fresh perspective around the challenges any and every organization will face regardless of size. In the end if you can't see the potential - you essentially missed the point.

Great book! - 2009-05-18
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Possibly one of the most influential books that you'll pick up this year!

Ogrinz does a fantastic job of providing a solid overview of the space with detailed original thought into the implications of producing mashups for the enterprise. His work is both a fantastic learning tool and a handy reference for your desk.

One gets quite tired of buying "for the Enterprise" books and being presented with ideas that will not work in a large organization. Ogrinz has obvious skills in the Enterprise and that comes through in his book very clearly. A professionals reference if ever there were one.

This book goes way beyond the droll "another website technology" book and presents an architects view of using real technology within real businesses.

If you work in an Enterprise and are looking for ways to foster innovations in data collection and presentation this is the book for you!

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