Archive for the 'architecture' Category

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

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 …

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

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 …

How InnoDB performs a checkpoint at Xaprb [by Baron Schwartz {of Perconna, MySQL vendor }

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…

How InnoDB performs a checkpoint at Xaprb [by Baron Schwartz {of Perconna, MySQL vendor }

Friday, May 6th, 2011

EC2 Site Architecture Diagrams – RightScale Cloud Management Support Portal

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

EC2 Site Architecture Diagrams – RightScale Cloud Management Support Portal

Friday, May 6th, 2011

25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like they’re from the Future | Crack Two

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” .

Sören Bleikertz – On Amazon EC2′s Underlying Architecture

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…

[slideshare] Netflix in the cloud 2011 – Adrian Cockcorft

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Slides from Adrian Cockcorft, Netflix director of cloud systems about current state [for 2011] of Netflix’s AWS-based architecture

http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html

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…