Architects Zone | Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices

Paul Miller05/13/13
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Seeking Simplicity's Sweet Spot

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." These words have resonated with me recently, as I’ve heard pitches from one company after another, all of which are trying to cut through the complexity of data to make it accessible.

Marco Tedone05/13/13
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ScruXBan as Execution Tool Within the ALT+F Framework

If the ALT+F templates show poor IT Operations performance, the next steps in the Adapt and Plan phases are to identify optimal targets to achieve operational excellence and best-in-class status and then to set the stage for an Agile and Lean transformation strategy that should be executed on two levels...

John Cook05/13/13
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Mutually Odd Functions

The floor of a real number x is the largest integer n ≤ x, written ⌊x⌋. The ceiling of a real number x is the smallest integer n ≥ x, written ⌈x⌉. The floor and ceiling have the following symmetric relationship

Max Katz05/13/13
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Tutorial: Create a Mobile App Connected to SAP HANA with Appery.io

Ronald Konijnenburg has written a great tutorial on how fast and easy it is to build a mobile app connected to SAP HANA (over a lunch break) with Appery.io.

Kevin Remde05/13/13
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SQL Database Mirroring to the Cloud - 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services

“Hey Kevin… I would like to use Windows Azure as a location where I set up a SQL Server database mirror. Is this something I can do?” Absolutely, yes!

Mark O'neill05/13/13
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Plugging Cloud Identity Leaks

So what does it mean to "plug a Cloud Identity leak"? If employees at your business find it easier to "login with Google" or "login with Facebook" to cloud-based apps which they use for business, then . . .

Ayende Rahien05/13/13
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RavenDB & Locking Indexes

One of the things that we keep thinking about with RavenDB is how to make it easier for you to run in production.

Istvan Szegedi05/13/13
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NuoDB and Object-Relational Mapping – Hibernate Support in NuoDB

This is the second in a series of three articles that explore NuoDB. You can learn more about NuoDB, as well as access a free trial, by heading over to the NuoDB website.

Jakub Holý05/13/13
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What People in Large Organizations Can Learn From the Fighter Pilot John R. Boyd

Boyd, with his colleagues, have brought about many changes and had to fight hard against the Pentagon’s resistance to change - so typical of large bureaucratic organizations.

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis05/13/13
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Wasp's Nest: A Lock-Free Concurrency Pattern In Python

In recent work on PyMongo, I used a concurrency-control pattern that solves a variety of reader-writer problem without mutexes. I'm dubbing it the Wasp's Nest. Stick with me—by the end of this post you'll know a neat concurrency pattern, and have a good understanding of how PyMongo handles replica set failovers.

Leigh Shevchik05/13/13
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Test All the Combinations!

Most applications test for their own correctness. But sometimes gems need to go further and test their interactions with other gems. newrelic_rpm – otherwise known as the New Relic Ruby agent – is definitely one of them. It needs to not only coexist with other gems, but to seamlessly instrument them.

Seth Proctor05/13/13
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Real-Time Dashboard with Node.js & NuoDB

In this article we are going to talk about implementing a simple node.js web app that captures state changes in NuoDB and publishes these changes to listening clients.

Leigh Shevchik05/13/13
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Dive into your JVM with New Relic

If you’ve been looking for deeper insight into your JVM and application server, we’ve got some good news for you. The latest release of the New Relic Java agent includes an increase in the amount of data we collect on your Java applications and these new metrics can be used to solve a multitude of performance problems.

Raymond Camden05/13/13
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MAX Session: Advanced PhoneGap Build

Enjoy my eloquent presentation on the more advanced aspects of using PhoneGap Build. You can download the source code for the sample apps and slide deck as well.

Ben Forta05/13/13
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Building Your First PhoneGap Build App

Want to build a mobile app using web standards? Don Woodward shows you how in this new video Introduction to PhoneGap Build - Building your first app: