Archive for July, 2009

Combining MapReduce with and SQL database

31st July 2009 by eamonn No Comments

HadoopDB Project
Combining MapReduce with and SQL database
(tags: programming java database scaling architecture)

links for 2009-07-26

26th July 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Snapfish Lab: An open online imaging community
Our paper about Snapfish Lab.
(tags: my web2.0 webservices imaging)

Canons of page construction – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Design principles for laying out book page margins.
(tags: layout webpageprinting design)

Resources on web site performance and color palettes

25th July 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Cassandra: Open Source Bigtable + Dynamo
One of the current crop of "nosql" databases.
(tags: architecture scaling database)

Even Faster Websites
Front-end ways to make web sites faster (or appear to be faster)
(tags: web2.0 webservices architecture programming)

What Every Developer Should Know About Database Scalability
Nice overview of scaling issues for database, both relational and non-relational
(tags: database architecture scaling)

Gearman
A scalable distributed [...]

Specs is a really useful framework for testing Java and Scala code

24th July 2009 by eamonn No Comments

MatchersGuide – specs – How to add expectations to your examples – Project Hosting on Google Code
Specs is a really useful framework for testing Java and Scala code. It integrates well with JUnit for running from Eclipse or Ant. It also makes it easy to use Mockito to generate mock objects [...]

A useful guide for how to structure a technical article.

22nd July 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Guidelines for writing a successful technical article – NOSQL | Google Groups
A useful guide for how to structure a technical article.
(tags: language)

Non-SQL databases and the technologies they use

20th July 2009 by eamonn No Comments

braindump: NOSQL debrief
Very useful collection of presentation of various non-SQL databases, some of them similar to Google's BigTable.
(tags: programming database architecture scaling conference)

Benchmarking – thrift-protobuf-compare – Google Code
Interesting comparison of different Java serialization methods.
(tags: programming java scala json)

Linking Java to relational databases

19th July 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Standardizing Java Persistence with the EJB3 Java Persistence API – O'Reilly Media
Some examples of how to use annotations to map Java objects to a database using the EJB3/JPA standard.
(tags: database java)

Memcached UDF for Java DB on OpenSolaris : Knut Anders Hatlen's Weblog
Example of implementing a Java user-defined-function in the Java DB (Derby) database.
(tags: database java)

links for 2009-07-14

14th July 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Magazine Digital Edition Systems for Digital Magazine | Infoswell Media
A company that creates animated "digital editions" of magazines for publishers.
(tags: contenttransformation)

http://csl.stanford.edu/~christos/publications/2007.cmp_mapreduce.hpca.pdf
The Phoenix implementation of MapReduce for Multi-core and Multiprocessor Systems
(tags: architecture)