key-value store
Lightcloud is a distributed and persistent key-value database from Plurk.com. Performance is said to be comparable to memcached. It's different than memcachedb because it scales out horizontally by adding new nodes. It's different than memcached because it persists to disk, it's not just
Product
Update: HostedFTP.com - Amazon S3 Performance Report. How fast is S3? Based on their own study HostedFTP.com has found: 10 to 12 MB/second when storing and receiving files and 140 ms per file stored as a fixed overhead cost. Update: A Quantitative Comparison of Rackspace and Amazon
Strategy
Update 2: Linear Bloom Filters by Edward Kmett. A Bloom filter is a novel data structure for approximating membership in a set. A Bloom join conserves network bandwith by exchanging cheaper, more plentiful local CPU utilization and disk IO. Update: What are Amazon EC2 Compute Units?. Cloud providers charge for
Scalability
Many web applications, including eBanking, Trading, eCommerce and Online Gaming, face large, fluctuating loads. In this post will describe how to achieve Right Sizing using virtualization and cloud computing. Will use a standard JEE web application to demonstrate how auto-scaling works on AWS Cloud without changing your application code.
General Discussion
Why You Need To Attend THIS CONFERENCE • Understand the multi-dimensional view of business-technology alignment • A sense of urgency for aggressively pursuing Enterprise Architecture • A "language" (ie., a Framework) for improving enterprise communications about architecture issues • An understanding of the cultural changes implied by process evolution. How to effectively
General Discussion
One day, Advanced BPM Certified program led by Global Leader, Steve Towers. Latest Case Studies and innovations - hands-on, practical. Event locations USA San Francisco 16 Mar 09 Atlanta 17 Mar 09 New York 19 Mar 09 Chicago 20 Mar 09 www.BESTBPMTRAINING.COM India Mumbai 23 Mar 09 Bangalore
General Discussion
If you want to understand Complexity and Contradiction in IT Architecture and struggling to manage non-adaptive and dysfunctional systems, you don't want to miss this. one day Certified conference by John Zachman in Dubai on 23rd March 2009. For more details visit http://www.EnterpriseArchitectureLive.com For registrations,
General Discussion
John Zachman (Father of enterprise architecture) Given this renascent interest, who better to explain the principles behind Enterprise Architecture than the man himself, John Zachman, the originator of the " Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture" Join this workshop in Johannesburg 25th Mar 09 and Cape town in 27th March
Memcached
Jurriaan Persyn is a Lead Web Developer at Netlog, a social portal site that gets 50 million unique visitors and 5+ billion page views per month. In this paper Jurriaan goes into a lot of excellent nuts and bolts details about how they used sharding to scale their system. If
Strategy
Garry Tan, cofounder of Posterous, lists 12 lessons for scaling that apply to more than just Rails. Use cloud storage for static files. Use HTTP Cache Control to tell the browser what it can cache. Use Sphinx for text search. Use InnoDB for more crash resistant and faster writes. Don&
Python
Update 6:: Back to the Future for Data Storage. We are in the middle of a renaissance in data storage with the application of many new ideas and techniques; there's huge potential for breaking out of thinking about data storage in just one way. Update 5: Building Scalable
General Discussion
Share the experience of hosting highly scalable/reliable GIS based application which involves Map Server, Spatially enabled database, j2ee, Routing Applications etc.