Archive for December, 2009

Moving into Production Checklist

December 26th, 2009

You are about to complete your existing project , all the functionality is in place , all unit tests are passing , profiling done and there are no visible bottlenecks , benchmarks been executed and the system seems to scale and perform nicely: You (think you) are ready to move the system into production to [...]

The Common Principles Behind the NOSQL Alternatives

December 15th, 2009

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post describing the drive behind the demand for a new form of database alternatives, often referred to as NOSQL. A few weeks ago during my Qcon presentation, I went through the patterns of…

Takeaway from Qcon Part I

December 10th, 2009

The Qcon conference in San Francisco has always been one of my favorite conferences. Floyd is doing a great job of bringing an interesting blend of people from across the spectrum of the industry (Java, .Net, Ruby) into one place….