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Application Monitoring as a Service with New Relic and GigaSpaces
January 18th, 2010Application monitoring has become a core component of IT infrastructure. It gives you a view of what’s happening to your applications at the higher level. With this information, you can detect anomalies and prevent failure before it happens, analyze trends…
The Common Principles Behind the NOSQL Alternatives
December 15th, 2009A 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, 2009The 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….
Why Existing Databases (RAC) are So Breakable!
November 30th, 2009One of the core assumption behind many of today’s databases is that disks are reliable. In other words, your data is “safe” if it is stored on a disk, and indeed most database solutions rely heavily on that assumption. Is…
It’s Complex to be Simple
November 17th, 2009Avdi Grimm wrote an interesting post Simplicity is Complicated. Avdi bring few interesting points on how the term Simplicity is often abused to justify all sort of decisions. “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” -…
