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InfoQ Article - RAM is the new disk…
June 24th, 2008Steven Robbins published an interesting article on InfoQ titled RAM is the new disk. In the comment thread, Steven Robbins quoted Tim Bray and others comparing file system performance to memory: Memory is the new disk! With disk speeds growing…
Meet us @ TSSJS Prague
June 16th, 2008TheServerSide has a good record of picking nice spots for their conferences, and this year’s Java Symposium in Prague is no exception. It’s looking to be a fun event, as I’m going to meet not just lots of old friends,…
Economies of Non-Scale
June 4th, 2008Scalability forces us to think differently. What worked on a small scale doesn’t always work on a large scale — and costs are no different. To measure the cost impact of scaling, let’s look at the amount of resources required…
Twitter as a scalability case study
May 17th, 2008So once again Twitter was down last week for a good chunk of time. A lot has been said already about Twitter’s scalability issues. Many have given Twitter as an anti-pattern of how not to deal with scalability and have…
Cool Projects on OpenSpaces.org
April 30th, 2008The OpenSpaces.org community site launched in January. I was surprise by the rapid adoption of OpenSpaces since then, with lots of interesting innovations on things I didn’t even think of. I’m sure that some of the projects will be very…
