Spec by Example mentoring programme
Specification by example mentoring is aimed at individuals who know the basics, want to improve and need support, knowledge and ideas not available online or through training courses. First group starts 1 June.
scalability Archive
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Designing applications for cloud deployment
Posted on January 25, 2010 | 2 CommentsDuring the last two years, I was involved in several projects deployed on the Amazon cloud. Being a relatively early adopter was a fantastic experience that provided lots of opportunities to burn my fingers and learn from mistakes. It also seriously challenged my view of scalable software architectures. I spoke... -
Improving performance and scalability with DDD
Posted on June 23, 2009 | 3 CommentsDistributed systems are not typically a place where domain driven design is applied. Distributed processing projects often start with an overall architecture vision and an idea about a processing model which basically drives the whole thing, including object design if it exists at all. Elaborate object designs are thought of... -
Online gaming high scalability SIG schedule updated
Posted on June 9, 2009 | No CommentsWe have two new confirmed talks for the Online gaming high scalability special interest group meeting on the 9th of July in London. Simon Wardley will present How much of a gamble is the Cloud?, an examination of the benefits & risks of cloud computing and how this industry is... -
Oracle Coherence vs Gigaspaces XAP
Posted on June 1, 2009 | 18 CommentsI’ve been fortunate enough to work (read: get to play) with two leading data/computing grid solutions in commercial projects over the last year — so here’s a short summary of differences between Oracle Coherence and GigaSpaces XAP. -
QCon London 2009: Upgrading Twitter without service disruptions
Posted on March 16, 2009 | 4 CommentsEvan Weaver from Twitter presented a talk on Twitter software upgrades, titled Improving running components as part of the Systems that never stop track at QCon London 2009 conference last Friday. The talk focused on several upgrades performed since last May, while Twitter was experiencing serious performance problems.
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