Architects Zone | Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices

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.

Mark Needham05/19/13
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Ruby/Python: Constructing a taxonomy from an array using zip

I’ve been hacking on a product taxonomy and I wanted to create a ‘CHILD’ relationship between a collection of categories. For example, I had the following array and I wanted to transform it into an array of ‘SubCategory, Category’ pairs...

Eric Minick05/19/13
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Software Supply Chains and DevOps

During our induction into the IBM family, one of our new colleagues told an anecdote about a firm that outsourced its mobile application development. Managing the relationship of outsourced work with what is being developed in house is a challenge similar to what manufacturers face with their supply chains.

John Cook05/19/13
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Prove or Disprove

"When we’re faced with a 'prove or disprove,' we’re usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons..."

Leigh Shevchik05/19/13
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Getting Ready for DjangoCon Europe!

Believe it or not, PyCon 2013 was two (short) months ago. And those of us on the New Relic Python agent team have been very busy creating new coolness to share with the Python and Django communities at the upcoming DjangoCon Europe!

Nial Darbey05/19/13
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SOA School: Governance 2.0 with Anypoint Service Registry

With the explosion of APIs, the Enterprise has flung open its doors and windows and ripped off its roof in order to reach to the sky to exploit the vast array of cloud-based services on offer and include them in its software inventory.

Eric Genesky05/19/13
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NoSQL Matters: Building Scalability with Riak

Matthew Revell presented this 30-minute tutorial on building scalability into your next project with Riak.

Mark Needham05/19/13
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Neo4j: When the Web Console Returns Nothing . . . Use the Data Browser

In my time playing around with neo4j I’ve run into a problem a few times where I executed a query using the web console (usually accessible @ http://localhost:7474/webadmin/#/console/) and have got absolutely no response.

Madhuka Udantha05/19/13
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WSO2 ESB Endpoints Error Handling

This post will illustrate error handling in wso2 esb in regards to Endpoints. It's an import topic to cover because WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus needs to send the message to a service provider in its final stage.

Eric Genesky05/19/13
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OpenShift Origin's Internals

In this talk. Bill De Coste and Krishna Raman take a dive deep into OpenShift Origin's internals and architecture.

Build A Cloud05/19/13
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CloudStack Storage Configuration Guide

The SolidFire storage area network (SAN) was designed from the ground up to support hard Quality of Service. On a volume-by-volume basis, administrators can decide on a . . .

Tharindu Mathew05/18/13
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Moving Education Toward Open Source in Sri Lanka

Recently, I read this post about Richard Stallman’s (RMS) visit to India. And read more about RMS’s visit impacted the country.

George London05/18/13
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Postgres Fuzzy Search Using Trigrams (+/- Django)

We need a way to match queries to entities in our Postgres database. At first, this might seem like a simple problem with a simple solution, especially if you’re using the ORM; just jam the user input into an ORM filter and retrieve every matching string. But there’s a problem.

Daniel Doubrovkine05/18/13
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Your First Ruby Gem

I live-coded a new gem called Ruby::Enum at NYC.rb on Tuesday. This library adds enum-like functionality to Ruby. Here’s my checklist for creating a new gem.

Christopher Taylor05/18/13
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The CIO is Driving IT Toward a Cliff

Respected institutions like the Harvard Business Review, the Economist and others are publishing studies that show that the average CEO is unhappy with the status quo of their own technology shops.