Archive for April, 2007
Why browse when you can simply search?
April 23rd, 2007I had interesting discussions in the past few weeks about the use of Object Graphs and how that approach maps into a space model. It reminds me of the discussions I use to have when I used Versant as an object database and object store in the late 90s. Object Graphs assume a certain hierarchy [...]
“Share Nothing Architecture” redefined
April 6th, 2007"Share Nothing Architecture" is a common pattern for scaling out Web applications.
Generally speaking, the idea is to remove dependency between the scaling units, which in the case of a Web application means the Web Servers. Once these units become independent from each other, you can easily scale them just by adding more units. You can [...]
