Architects Zone | Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices

Don Pinto12/21/12
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Hello World with Couchbase and Java

My favorite technical book of all time has been the C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie affectionately referred to as K&R.

Sadayuki Furuhashi12/21/12
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Data Warehousing or Big Data - What's in a Name?

At Treasure Data, we agree that big data vs. data warehousing is a confusing issue for many people. However, the distinction between big data and data warehousing has become so blurred...

Mitch Pronschinske12/21/12
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Master Worker Pattern in JMS

A user asked a recent question on SO for their "application which needs to process huge file stored in DB in multiple rows." Here were the steps he wanted to trigger (he didn't know how to get step 2 going).

Eric Gregory12/21/12
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The DevOps Future is Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed (Yet)

The USENIX Association presents Kris Buytaert: "We've come a long way since introducing new ideas in server automation and deployment, and also in creating a culture of collaboration between the traditional silos in organizations..."

Douglas Rathbone12/21/12
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Set Up Scheduled Log File Cleaning for Windows Servers Running IIS

These days IIS has so many bells and whistles installed that it can be hard to find the settings panel that does what you want it to do. The one thing that is lacking as a feature in IIS is log file recycling.

Eric Gregory12/21/12
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DevOps + Chef + Windows at Ancestry.com

Dan Gilmer from Ancestry.com talks DevOps, Chef, and Windows in this presentation from Opscode.

Eric Gregory12/21/12
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Tutorial: Apache Pig With Amazon Elastic MapReduce - Part 3

Amazon Web Services presents this five-part tutorial on using Apache Pig with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, showing you how to create a simple log-parsing app.

Eric Gregory12/21/12
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Analyzing Big Data with Twitter - Lecture 3: Intro to Hadoop

Here's the third lecture in Berkeley ISchool's series on using Twitter (and other tools) in big data analytics. This lesson focuses on Hadoop.

Arthur Charpentier12/21/12
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Econometric Modeling in Finance and Insurance with the R Language

On February 15th, IFM2, the Institute of Financial Mathematics in Montréal will organize an (one day) Executive workshop on Econometric Modeling in Finance and Insurance with the R language.

Mark Needham12/21/12
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Failure to Submit ‘Replace Catalog’ Command for Client to PuppetDB

I’m still getting used to the idea of following the logs when working out what’s going wrong with distributed systems but it worked well when trying to work out why our puppet client which was throwing this error when we ran ‘puppet agent -tdv’.

Fredrik Håård12/21/12
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Simple RESTful (-ish) exposure of Python APIs

After having written code to expose APIs through RESTful web services a couple of times, I've decided to do it once more, only this time I won't get paid, I won't have deadlines, I'll write it so I'll never have to write it again, and I'll make it available as open source.

Mitch Pronschinske12/21/12
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Managing and Monitoring Spring Integration Applications

Learn some useful the options for managing and monitoring applications that use Spring Integration. This tutorial will take you thorough STS Templates, JMX, and Spring Insight.

Allen Coin12/20/12
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How Flickr delivers Real-Time Push Notifications using Node.js and Redis

Push notifications are, of course, nothing new. Recently, Joshua Cohen at the Flickr blog described Flickr's process for delivering real-time push notifications using Node.js and Redis.

Eric Genesky12/20/12
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An Introduction to Accumulo, an Apache NoSQL Solution

The following 10-minute video will introduce you to Apache Accumulo, a distributed key/value store that is built on top of Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift.

Steve Rogalsky12/20/12
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A Systems Thinking Alternative to Performance Reviews

I'm not qualified enough to make categorical claims about the typical annual performance review process, but I can say that by trying something different I enjoyed the performance review process more than any other year and I had some great conversations with my co-workers.