Posts filed under 'Notes to self'
Alexis and the team at CohesiveFT are in the process of setting up a London Cloud Camp meeting. It is (tentatively) scheduled for July 16. It is still in the early day’s of preparation so we don’t have a page on Upcoming yet but you can see that the San Francisco camp is going great guns. Sign up on the registration page if you are interested.
June 15th, 2008
Gabi and the Java developers at our development centre in Cluj Napoca have just set up the Transylvania Java User Group. The project site is here and a Google Group is available here.
They are holding their first meeting next Wednesday (21 May). The topic is : “Introduction to SpringSource Application Platform” and the event is registered here. We are hosting it at our offices:
Betfair
Str Somesului 2-12
Cluj Napoca.
Sign up and come along!
Csaba has even created a logo.

How cool does Duke look there! I bet this has got to be one of the best JUG logos around!
May 16th, 2008
Steve Vinoski talking about reliability (in particular my favourite: Erlang)
To achieve reliability, you have to accept the fact that failure will occur, Once you accept that, then other things fall into place: you need to be able to restart things quickly, and to do that, processes need to be cheap. If something fails, you don’t want it taking everything else with it, so you need to at least minimize, if not eliminate, sharing, which leads you to message passing. You also need monitoring capabilities that can detect failed processes and restart them
Amen to that!
Technorati Tags: reliability, Erlang
May 2nd, 2008
Interesting to see another Google-like piece of infrastructure cloning coming out of Yahoo!. Zookeeper appears to be almost identical to Chubby, Googles distributed lock service.
Technorati Tags: Google, Yahoo!, Hadoop, MapReduce, Zookeeper, Chubby
March 10th, 2008
Technorati Tags: Amazon, EC2, S3
February 15th, 2008
Technorati Tags: MapReduce, Hadoop
January 31st, 2008
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