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High Scalability: build successful scalable websites

Ever wonder which is the recipe YouTube applied for a handling rapid growth? Just ran this loop many times a day:

<br /> while (true)<br /> {<br /> identify_and_fix_bottlenecks();<br /> drink();<br /> sleep();<br /> notice_new_bottleneck();<br /> }<br />

Now seriously, a new site, called High Scalability, has been recently launched trying to bring together all the lore, art, science, practice, and experience of building scalable websites into one place so you can learn how to build your system with confidence. It has lots of useful information, as books, products, papers, a glossary, and a number of Real Life Architectures, such as the architectures for Amazon, eBay, Google or YouTube among others.

(Via Per Henrik Lausten)

links for 2007-07-31

• Is your code worthless? – cysquatch.net
  Nice discussion about reuse: “most code – above and beyond the industry-wide frameworks and libraries – has no value at all outside of a specific project with a specific group of developers”
  (tags: programming code reuse development)
• InfoQ: Implementing Automated Governance for Coding Standards
  Mark talks about how they evolved to use a server-based build process where various tools scan code for possible problems, as well as best practices for implementing an automated code governance strategy.
  (tags: programming bestpractices continuousintegration scm testing agile)
• Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site
  (tags: web performance tips ui)
• InfoQ: Gang of Four Design Patterns – Does it stand the test of time?
  “It seems most (if not all) agree that patterns as tool in software engineering is useful, the debate is on the value of the GoF book today. What do you think ? is the Gof Design Patterns a timeless piece or has it outlived its purpose?”
  (tags: Design patterns GoF)
• openArchitectureWare.org – MDA’s focus is on the mapping between implementation-independent model and platform-specific model?
  “pre-history of MDA. Bear in mind that two camps were involved in defining it; they were known in the mid 90s as the ‘translationists’ and the ‘elaborationists’. The latter were the more powerful camp, although the former arguably ‘got it’ far better”
  (tags: MDD MDA history)
• Google Video – Video Search [type:google engEDU]
  Google TechTalks Video Feed
  (tags: development programming video google)
• Making the web into a banking platform (whether they like it or not)
  “we’ve gotten a lot of interest in the Wesabe API in large part because the bank and credit card industries are so tight-fisted with their data”
  (tags: banking wesabe web2.0 api community)
• Introduction to SOA governance
  “Explore how IBM defines Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance—learn what it is and why it’s critical to the success of your SOA project.”
  (tags: IBM SOA governance)

links for 2007-07-19

• Taylor MDA 1.0.0 GA Released
  Taylor MDA is an Eclipse based UML modeling tool that specializes in the generation of JEE5 applications.
  (tags: MDD MDA eclipse)
• Urbancode announces AnthillPro 3.3.0
  This release is focused on easier workflow design, property configuration, and dependency flexibility.
  (tags: ci build scm)
• Java Community News – The Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework
  “Domain-specific languages are very popular, but using them mostly involves writing code in the DSL. While more effective than a general-purpose language, in some problem domains it is useful to go beyond a DSL and create a graphical editor to interact wi
  (tags: MDD DSM DSL eclipse GMF)

Comments

Comment by Petri I. Salonen on 2007-07-19 04:56:00 +0000

Have you checked out http://www.dsmforum.org as a very good resource for domain-specific modeling and topics around it.

links for 2007-07-13

• IBM developerWorks: Wikis – z/OS Performance Instrumentation Management Techniques – Home
  a wiki to discuss primarily SMF. Mainly from the management perspective, rather than the contents of each individual record.
  (tags: IBM mainframe SMF performance)
• Useful Greasemonkey plug-ins for GMail at Felipe Alfaro Solana
  a nice list of plug-ins for Greasemonkey that I’m using to make GMail more usable and productive.
  (tags: Greasemonkey plugins gmail)
• Bill Roth’s Blog: ** Workshop 10.1 Available: Workshop and Studio Merged! **
  BEA Workshop 10.1 is now available for download. The code lines BEA Workshop and Workshop Studio have been merged.
  (tags: BEA workshop eclipse)
• Domain Agnostic Languages
  What is it that characterizes domain specific languages?
  (tags: DSL Design)
• The “Is It a DSL or an API?” Ten Question Checklist – O’Reilly ONLamp Blog
  ten-question test to help you determine whether a wad of code represents a DSL or an API.
  (tags: DSL humour)

links for 2007-07-10

• Dr. Dobb’s | Evolving a Domain-Specific Language | maig 31, 2007
  (tags: DSM DSL)
• Patrick Mueller : a history about transparency
  It certainly seems to me, that over time, we’ve become more transparent with our development processes for our commercial products. I think this is great for customers, who will have more direct access to the product development teams and the product deve
  (tags: IBM Rational ProjectZero Jazz)