Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'architecture'

great post, interesting discussion. thinking about XMPP's limitations and its benefits, it's an interesting question. on the one hand, it is heavyweight. on the other, it scales pretty well.

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july 2008 by sogrady

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Bill de hÓra: 3 and 1/2 minutes to sort a Terabyte, and a look at Hadoop's code structure

great, great look at Hadoop by Bill

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july 2008 by sogrady

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Let the microblogs bloom - RussellBeattie.com

"It's a great effort, looks good....Evan...did a great job creating a nice little project with some cool features like OpenID, Jabber support and the beginnings of a federation system. Looking at the code, however, it's doomed."

russellbeattie twitter microblogging architecture scalability scaling development programming laconica identica via:luis
july 2008 by sogrady

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Bill de hÓra: Plugin pros and cons

excellent detailed review of the pros and cons to the plugin approach

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july 2008 by sogrady

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SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug)

"I really don’t want to operate datacenters anymore despite the fact that we’re pretty good at it. It’s a necessary evil because we’re an Internet company, but our mission is to be the best photo sharing site." - Skynet = their GAE abstraction lay

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june 2008 by sogrady

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Google AppEngine - A Second Look | High Scalability

"What's more the problem is developers will be acquiring a sort of learned helplessness. It's not that developers can't port to another environment, they simply won't know how to anymore because they will have never had to do it themselves."

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april 2008 by sogrady

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Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Good architectural layering, and Bzr 1.1

"It seems that one of the key “best practices” that has emerged is the idea of plug-in architectures, that allow new developers to contribute an extension, plug-in or add-on to the codebase without having to learn too much about the guts of the projec

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january 2008 by sogrady

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WebUrbanist » 7 (More) Abandoned Wonders of America: From Military Islands to Mills and Institutions

what can i say but that i love stuff like this. would that one of them was nearer Denver or Boston

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Weblog | honking great app servers

"First let me say this - the JEE stuff and the container vendors that drive it are tied (still, but maybe less than a few years ago) to a physical three-tier model, whereas physical two-tier is a known good way way to build web systems."

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Eventually Consistent - All Things Distributed

"Inconsistency can tolerated for two reasons...Whether or not inconsistencies are acceptable depends on the client application."

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | On the importance of being megadata

"Amazon has opened SimpleDB for beta testers. As you would expect the system is designed to scale and as such has dropped generic relational operations such as joins and transactions."

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Making it stick.: AMQP, XMPP

"I think we have a lot to learn still about how simple the enterprise can eventually be." - yes, precisely

architecture notification software xmpp amqp messaging scalability enterprise simplicity via:planetintertwinglymemes
september 2007 by sogrady

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Urban Abandonments: 7 Deserted Wonders of the (Post)Modern World

sucker for things like this

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september 2007 by sogrady

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r0ml.net » Blog Archive » History teaches us ...

r0ml using history to ellucidate the one true number of tiers

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september 2007 by sogrady

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YouTube Scalability Talk - Kyle Cordes

fascinating talk from the YouTube guys on scalability

architecture clustering code concurrency databases scalability megadata via:joe
july 2007 by sogrady

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blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in

meant to link to this before, but probably the best analysis of the Facebook API that i've seen by a large margin

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Digital Urban: Frank Lloyd Wright Architectual Visualisation in Half Life

the creativity of some of the folks in the gaming worlds never ceases to amaze me

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Adding Simplicity - An Engineering Mantra: Compute Power, Is Your Architecture Green?

"This article rang particularly true for me as I've recently been pushing the concept of optimizing TPS/watt." - all the more interesting because Dan's a Technical Fellow at eBay

eBay pritchett tps watt energy ecofriendly green architecture power
january 2007 by sogrady

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snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Perfect

"This is perhaps the absolute best non-techy, two-sentence description of current trends that I’ve read yet." - i concur

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december 2006 by sogrady

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Ajax and REST, Part 1

curious as to how Ajax and REST impact enterprise application development? read this, both for the impact Fielding's had on the space and the limitations it imposes on design - look forward to the cultural piece (much appreciate the shout out too, Bill)

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october 2006 by sogrady

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OpenOffice plug-in plan set for debut | Tech News on ZDNet

i once asked ISVs and projects to consider how they could be the Firefox of their market; it would appear that OO.o has an answer

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - My Website is Bigger Than Your Enterprise

excellent post from Obasanjo on architecture astronautics

obasanjo architecture astronauts
march 2006 by sogrady

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Good Morning Silicon Valley: Grokking Google: Google's butt-ugly interface design

'Even if you're on Windows, the Google Desktop is a bear to extend with your own widgets. That's why developers have flocked to Yahoo's Konfabulator which uses HTML/CSS/JS that we all know and love.' (via Alex)