Architects Zone | Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices

Jon Antoine05/20/13
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WinJS: use the same data in the zoomed out and zoomed in view.

The Semantic zoom let you display your data in a zoomed out and zoomed in way. It’s really fine when your data is grouped but sometimes you need to display a non-grouped data just in a different way with a different template.

Christian Grobmeier05/20/13
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Would You Use PhoneGap Again?

There is a lot of interest in Cordova these days. It’s understandable: with thousands of platforms around it is hard to build a mobile app for all of them.

Build A Cloud05/20/13
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CloudStack University

At Apache CloudStack we recently started an initiative to organize our content into learning modules. We call this initiative CloudStack University.

Eric Genesky05/20/13
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Links You Don't Want to Miss (May 20)

Take a trip to Google Island, check out the Codebunk pair programming tool, and a promise-based ORM for Node.js. Plus: developer wages drop 2%, and Brian Eno on creative problem solving.

Hanu Kommalapati05/20/13
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Introducing Windows 8 for Android Developers - Part 1

Both Android and Windows 8 platforms offer similar fundamental capabilities, development tools and SDKs to accomplish the necessary programming tasks for publishing the applications to the respective stores.

Brian O' Neill05/20/13
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Cassandra as a Deep Storage Mechanism

At a high-level, Druid collects event data into segments via real-time nodes. The real-time nodes push those segments into deep storage.

Dan Diephouse05/20/13
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Announcing CloudHub availability in Europe

I’m thrilled to announce the availability of CloudHub in Europe. With this announcement, we’re extending the industry-leading CloudHub platform to address the needs of our European customers with dedicated computing resources located in the European Union.

Anders Karlsson05/20/13
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What's the Deal with NoSQL

Everybody seems to be looking at and debating NoSQL these days, and so am I and I thought I'd say a few words about it.

Gaurav Mantri05/20/13
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Azure Blob Storage - "The specified blob or block content is invalid"

If you’re uploading blobs by splitting blobs into blocks and you get the error – The specified blob or block content is invalid, then this post is for you.

Robert Annett05/20/13
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Maintainable Systems: More on Upgrades

A successful system is going to need upgrading periodically. The user's requirements might change over time, different users might want to use the system, external interfaces may change and, of course, software salespeople will want a reason to charge upgrade fees (I'm such a cynic).

Andreas Kollegger05/20/13
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Using an In-Graph-Alcohol-Percentage-Index

As you may remember, I created a little beer graph some time ago to experiment and have fun with beer, and graphs.

Greg Ness05/20/13
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Hybrid Cloud Services: The Final Frontier

Today’s cloud migration solutions are, for the most part, pretenders. Beyond virtualized workloads and small physical and virtualized apps they don’t properly support production workloads in the cloud.

Samidip Basu05/20/13
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It Pays to Do Community ...

It takes effort, persistence & contributions from a lot of folks to build a truly rewarding developer community that benefits everyone involved. This will be a quick post thanking several people that I truly respect & enjoy working with, along with thoughts on running a technical User Group.

Raymond Camden05/20/13
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Converting a list of dates into a shorter, combined list

Given a list of dates, how would you rewrite them so that two (or more) consecutive dates are displayed together?

Alex Holmes05/20/13
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Bucketing, Multiplexing and Combining in Hadoop - Part 1

This is the first blog post in a series which looks at some data organization patterns in MapReduce. We’ll look at how to bucket output across multiple files in a single task, how to multiplex data across multiple files, and also how to coalesce data. These are all common patterns that are useful to have in your MapReduce toolkit.