Architects Zone | Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices

Gonzalo Ayuso07/14/12
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Using Monkey Patching to Store Files Into CouchDb Using The Standard Filesystem Functions With PHP

Let’s go a little further in our CouchDb storage system with PHP. I will show you why. We have some files using PHP’s filesystem functions and we want to change them to the new interface with the Nov\CouchDb\Fs library. We’ve got the following code:

Eric Daugherty07/14/12
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My Predictions on the Future of the Amazon Cloud

As a customer and fan of Amazon, I've been watching the company grow and develop for a while. Based on my experiences and observations, I've come up with a picture of the not-so-distant future that I believe will (mostly) come to pass.

Eric Genesky07/13/12
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Video:Getting Started with Cloud Foundry

The following 1/2 hour video provides an introduction to using Cloud Foundry, presented by Andy Piper, a Developer Advocate from Cloud Foundry.

Eric Genesky07/13/12
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How to Use Gephi to Visualize Related Entries in Wikipedia

The data is based on the extraction of the “influencedBy” relationship over philosophers referred to in Wikipedia using the machine readable, structured data view of Wikipedia that is DBpedia.

Eric Genesky07/13/12
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Fumblings with Ranked Likert Scale Data in R

The code is horrible and the visualisations quite possibly misleading, but I’m dead tired and there are a couple of tricks in the following R code that I want to remember, so here’s a contrived bit of fumbling with some data of the form . . .

Leigh Shevchik07/13/12
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Managing Rails Apps at Massive Scale

An interview with the VP of Technology at Fanzter discusses some of the ups and downs of scaling massive websites.

Scott Leberknight07/12/12
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A Brief Introduction to Riak, from Clusters to Links to MapReduce

The quick and dirty: Riak is a key-value, distributed database made up of multiple independent nodes which can be joined together to form Riak clusters.

Eric Silva07/12/12
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Video: How to Think Non-Relational with MongoDB

I recently started playing around with NoSQL databases as became interested in MongoDB. Here is a great video tutorial that will get you quickly introduced to NoSQL and the MongoDB application. It covers how NoSQL is different from typical RDBMS platforms and schemas, and how data is stored in MongoDB.

Paul Miller07/12/12
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My Reflections on Data Gravity

Data Gravity featured in this year’s EMC World keynote. But beyond the observation that large or valuable agglomerations of data exert a pull that tends to see them grow in size or value, what is a recognition of Data Gravity actually good for?

Mark O'neill07/12/12
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OpenID for API Management at the API Portal

Next week I am at the Cloud Identity Summit (CIS) in Colorado. Vordel is a sponsor at CIS, and I'm looking forward to what promises to be an excellent event.

Chris Kelly07/12/12
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Real-Users, Performance, and What Matters to You

Web performance is a growing field within the greater operations community. This year it gained its own WebPerfDays – modeled after the highly regarded DevOpsDays – both of which followed the main Velocity conference.

Brian Pince07/12/12
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Java on Windows Azure (from JFokus)

This was my first time to Sweden, and I loved it. I got to work the booth for the day, and talked with some great people on how we are doing with running Java on Windows Azure.

Mitch Pronschinske07/12/12
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Creating .NET-based Mappers and Reducers for Hadoop with JNBridgePro

The Apache Hadoop framework enables distributed processing of very large data sets. Hadoop is written in Java, and has limited methods to integrate with “mapreducers” written in other languages. This lab demonstrates how you can use JNBridgePro to program directly against the Java-based Hadoop API to create .NET-based mapreducers.

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.