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More Layers = More Complexity

When designing applications, adding additional layers to improve user experience may seem like a good idea, but it's important to consider the added complexity that comes along with it, such as where the data is going to come from. Simon Brown covers some of the questions you need to remember during application design, including: What operations you need to expose? Which technology binding do you use? How do you ensure that people can't plug in their own client and consumer the services?

0 replies - 3231 views - 01/31/12 by Simon Brown in Articles

Is Programming Less Exciting Today?

As discriminatory as this is going to sound, this one is for the old-timers. If you started programming after the turn of the milennium, I don’t know if you’re going to be able to follow the trend of this post—not out of any serious deficiency on...

14 replies - 8139 views - 01/26/12 by Ted Neward in Articles

DZone's Top Articles of 2011

This week, DZone has gathered together its top articles in every major topical area.  These were chosen based popularity and quality of content.  If you missed any of these, or you want to revisit some of the comments, now is a great time to check them...

1 replies - 6857 views - 01/05/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

New Resources for Running Solr on an Azure Cloud

I just found a great new project on GitHub that's going to help a lot of Solr and Lucene projects deploy to a cloud infrastructure today.  It's a showcase on how to configure and host Solr and Lucene on Windows Azure:

0 replies - 2353 views - 12/13/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Redis Running on Win32—Not Important Enough for Core Project Inclusion Says Creator

Microsoft recently built a patch that runs Redis on win 32 using the libUV library (which also powers node.js if you're wondering).  The creator of Redis, Salvatore Sanfilippo heard about the news and shared his own opinion about the patch:

2 replies - 2841 views - 12/09/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

MongoDB On Windows Azure

A new preview release of the MongoDB controller for Azure is available. This release includes support for replica sets, and over the coming months, we’ll be adding support for MongoDB’s sharding facilities. We’ll also be working to more tightly...

0 replies - 2481 views - 12/07/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Application Performance Testing: From Conception to Gravestone

0 replies - 1270 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Why Load Testing From The Cloud Doesn't Work

0 replies - 1223 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Web Load Testing is Good Business

0 replies - 1275 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Sharding vs. Having Multiple Databases

I was recently at a customer site, and he made a mention of sharding their database in a specific way, putting all of the user generated content on a separate server. I jumped in and told him that this isn’t sharding. And then I had to explain, both to...

4 replies - 4909 views - 11/14/11 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

Big Data Analytics: Better, Faster, Smarter... (Europe)

Data is exploding in this age of machine-generated data. IT and business users alike are finding that traditional database can't cope with the volume - causing slow reports or the need to analyze less data at any one time.. Join Jeff Kibler, Community...

0 replies - 1039 views - 11/04/11 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized

Big Data Analytics: Better, Faster, Smarter... (US/Canada)

Data is exploding in this age of machine-generated data. IT and business users alike are finding that traditional database can't cope with the volume - causing slow reports or the need to analyze less data at any one time.. Join Jeff Kibler, Community...

0 replies - 946 views - 11/04/11 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized

Can Microsoft Windows Phone & Nokia Replace BlackBerry in Enterprise?

Jeremy Windmiller in his blog post wonders: “Can Microsoft Windows Phone & Nokia Replace BlackBerry in Enterprise ? ”.Jeremy talks about a scenario posed by the VP of IS Infrastructure at a Midwest Healthcare System to several colleagues for...

0 replies - 3280 views - 09/26/11 by Senthil Kumar in News