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.
Category Archives: Notes to self
Transylvania JUG
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!
Reliability
Steve Vinoski talking about
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!
Yahoo! just cloning Google
15 February 2008
31 January 2008
MapReduce at Rackspace – OK it is not MapReduce (as beloved by Stonebraker et al) but its open source breathenHadoop . Original link (and more info) at How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data.- MapReduce II – more installments.
23 January 2008
Towards Robust Distributed Systems – Eric Brewer’s slidedeck that kicked off the wholeCAP Theorem debate atPODC in 2000.
18 Jan 2008
- London
Erlang Meeting – “How do you test large systems written in Erlang?” on Monday (I presume) Jan 21. - Map Reduce a major step back. Michael
Stonebraker and David J.DeWitt let forth on why they dislike Google’sMapReduce infrastructure and how it is poor relation to standardrelational database technology. Relational Database Experts Jump The MapReduce Shark – a reply to Stonebraker and DeWitt that I pretty broadly agree with.- MapReducing 20
petabytes per day – Greg Linden commenting on the recent paper “MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters” by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat.
8 January 2008
From the
7 January 2008
- Computational Advertising talk on Thursday Jan 10 (via Greg)
- “Why did we create
Erlang “ - Google has a new competitor (…sort of).
- Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers) – an oldie but good to keep you on your toes. I have been seduced by
event driven systems for a long time. I thoughtSEDA was just wonderful when I first read about it.Message passing systems seem so much nicer to me – even if a little too esoteric for most people sometimes. However it is important to remember thatthreads can work well (just that it seems that most threading implementations are not up to scratch. Shame).