Architects Zone | Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices

Nikita Ivanov07/12/12
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GigaOm: 'Hadoop's days are numbered…' Are they?

A response to a recent article stating that since Hadoop is disk/ETL/batch based it won’t fit for real time processing of frequently changing data.

Mehdi Daoudi07/12/12
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How to Test & Benchmark CDNs?

I recently came across a very interesting post about CDN testing by Jonathan Klein, someone I respect tremendously in the Web Performance world. During his tests with Webpagetest he was unable to “see” the value provided by the CDN on his site.

Senthil Kumar07/11/12
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Download the MongoDB Installer for Windows Azure

A new tool called “MongoDB Installer for Windows Azure” to help the people who use MongoDB on Windows Azure is released and is available for download from the MongoDB website.

Robert Maclean07/11/12
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CS MythBusters: Arrays versus Collections

These are two statements I have heard recently and I initially felt are wrong, so to check I myself I decided to research this myth. I am assuming when people say collections they mean classes in System.Collections or System.Collections.Generics.

Eric Minick07/11/12
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Taking That Final Step to Continuous Production Deployment

In our Enterprise Continuous Delivery Maturity Model we looked at the idea of continuous deployments to production and flagged the process as “Extreme”. It’s just too much for too many teams. A decade ago, I might have said the same thing about continuous integration.

Willie Wheeler07/11/12
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Architecture and Conway’s Law

“…organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” —Melvin Conway

Mark Needham07/11/12
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Searching for Nodes by Name in Neo4j

As I mentioned in a post a few days ago I’ve been graphing connections between ThoughtWorks people using neo4j and wanted to build auto complete functionality so I can search for the names of people in the graph.

Pieter De Rycke07/11/12
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ShellR: A Web-Based PowerShell on Azure

The goal here was to develop a cloud application running on Windows Azure. We choose to develop a web application that offers a web based Powershell to remotely control servers from anywhere in the world . . .

Eric Genesky07/11/12
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From Europython 2012: Building Huge Sites with MongoDB and Python

The following presentation was given by M. Ramm at Europython last week. It's approximately 1 hour long, and is titled "Experimental Product Design with Python (Lean Startup)".

Yaron Naveh07/11/12
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Check Out this Digital Signature Library for Node.js

Node.js does not always have the right libraries for Xml operations. When such libraries exist they are not always cross platform (read: work on windows). I've just published xml-crypto, the first xml digital signature library for node.

Ravi Kalakota07/11/12
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Why Businesses Should Spend More on BI and Analytics

Procurement organizations tend to swim in data. One of the most important strategies for any best-in class procurement organization is spend analytics.

Eric Genesky07/11/12
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Gridspot Beta Offers a Cheap New Crowdsourced Cloud

To battle these existing services, Gridspot is offering an interesting alternative to the existing EC2 model, which is based on centralized data centers; Gridspot is crowdsourced.

Mike Benkovich07/11/12
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Building Connected Windows 8 Apps with Windows Azure

Yesterday in Dallas we had Scott Guthrie (@ScottGu) and the Azure team put on a great event at the Irving Convention Center to show off what’s new in the Microsoft Cloud story and to dive into getting started with the tools and services that make it work.

Leigh Shevchik07/11/12
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Speed as a Feature - Part 1

When describing your application to users, peers, VCs or potential new hires, which features do you list? Do you talk about the latest social sharing integration?

Joe Stein07/11/12
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Hadoop: My Experience with Cloudera and MapR

We wanted to both see how versions of Cloudera distribution would be running our jobs, as well as to evaluate other distributions that have emerged since we started with Hadoop.