There is a great post at the 37signals blog about how they optimized Basecamp using New Relic. One thing I found most interesting:
MySQL optimizations: We’ve been working with a MySQL performance consultant to help us optimize our database calls and queries. We’re still early in the process but we’ve learned a lot so far.
As with [...]
Anyone noticed the striking similarities the Windows Live APIs have to Hailstorm? George Moore, General Manager, Live Platform Services posted an interesting article outlining the unified storage APIs becoming available:
For the first time ever we have a unified protocol and developer tooling story across most of our major storage products from Microsoft:
On-premises structured storage: SQL [...]
Jeff Schneider, the CEO of MomentumSI, my friend, and my partner during a 2001 startup just completed an interview regarding SOA goverance. Enjoy!
[tags]SOA, SOA Governance, MomentumSI[/tags]
There has been quite a discussion around the development of concurrent applications for multi-core processors. This meme is interesting to me since I just wrapped up a project where I architected a system that processes high volumes of data (~10TB) using a Java-based distributed computing solution.
While many of the posts are related to the [...]
Microsoft recently released the MTPS Content Service. From their documentation:
The MTPS Content Service is an XML web service that provides access to the content stored in MTPS. This includes, for example, the content available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library. Using the MTPS Content Service, developers can integrate documentation, technical articles, whitepapers, images and the other content available [...]
I often come across projects that are built with a multitude of layers to the application. When asked why, I am often given the following response: “We wanted to have this application be more maintainable and flexible, so we put in layers to keep things separate and pluggable.” Somehow, the architectural goal of maintainability has [...]
InfoQ is a new service by Floyd Marinescu that provides news feeds about all that is happening across Java, Ruby, .Net, Agile, and SOA (Think of TSS for multiple platforms). This is great for technical leads that have to deal with multiple technologies on their projects (like myself) or those that want to keep up [...]
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