Archive for the 'architecture' Category
Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
so called AOSA book. ” Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually …
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
so called AOSA book. ” Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually …
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
An article about MySQL InnoDB checkpoint-ing mechanism written by Perconna folks. Read comments as well, several PostgreSQL core committers have participated in the discussion.
“InnoDB’s checkpoint algorithm is not well documented. It is too co…
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
Web architecture site design diagrams from RightScale. It tells you basic ideas how to design redundant web application infrastructure in amazon cloud
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
“These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place” .
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Friday, April 29th, 2011
Some description of EC2 Internals. EC2s are XEN VMs, mine is currently using Xen 3.0.3-rc5-8.1.14.f , which appears to be
F14 Xen package re-build on RHEl5.x (this is by looking at compiler version) . Some info in the article appears to a bit o…
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Slides from Adrian Cockcorft, Netflix director of cloud systems about current state [for 2011] of Netflix’s AWS-based architecture
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Notes from netflix tech blog about some key points of their EC2-based infrastructure design. Note that netflix is not affected by the current EBS problems in AWS US-EAST region. Their key point seems to be to equally split your infrastructure betw…
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