Archive for November, 2006
Persistence and the reliability myth
November 13th, 2006Most of us are used to thinking of persistence as a mean for reliability i.e. as soon as our critical information is stored in the DB we're safe!
But what about Hot-Failover? Hot-failover means that we need to keep on doing what were doing even after an event of a failure.
Does the fact that our critical [...]
An alternative scaling solution
November 13th, 2006In this blog post, Billy Newport comments on the mechanisms employed that facilitate scaling behaviors in distributed applications.
If I may paraphrase, he mentions three levels of provisioning, 1) Thread Pools, 2) process managers (starting processes on demand), 3) operating system managers (starting OS and related processes on demand) and accurately details the relative costs [...]
SBA Explained
November 5th, 2006My good friend Owen explains the Space Based Architecture in his recent blog post. This article ignited a discussion at The Server Side around the subject.
It may be a little bit difficult to fully understand the full value of SBA, howver, for those of us who are looking for simpler and robust real SOA, it is worth looking into.
