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EC2: Micro Instances – Clock Drift

Documentation over on AWS re Micro Instances, coupled with Niftiest Software’s view of how to fix clock drift.

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Atomic Clocks and GPS: Google Spanner

Wired provides the high level view on Google Spanner.  More details here.  

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UaaS: Utility-as-a-Service

Market migrates to the new UaaS (Utility-as-a-Service) paradigm – the new 4 letter cloud acronym UaaS in the financial vertical is possibly defined as an industry wide utility for a service that offers...

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Storm Cloud

Looks like GigaSpaces is starting an interesting series of postings on GigaSpaces, Storm and Cloudify

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GitHub: Oracle Coherence Incubator

Brian Oliver notes that Oracle Coherence Incubator 11 is release – fully Maven’s and github’d   Possibly of interest, the event distribution pattern: The purpose of this pattern is to provide an...

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DDoS: Open DNS Recursors

CloudFare offers an interesting read on the recent spamhaus.org DDoS attack, and offering a view on why Anycast technology helped to spread the load.

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Eventual Consistency

Interesting read from Microsoft Research, “Understanding Eventual Consistency”.  “Geo-Replication in Large Scale Cloud Computing Applications” may also be worth a read if you are interested in this...

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Crash-Only Software

Although rather an old paper, still worth a read. A crash-only system makes it affordable to transform every detected failure into component-level crashes; this leads to a simple fault model, and...

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Cucumber and Distributed Application Testing

Writing distributed applications is complex.  Testing distributed application is as complex.  Throw in a distributed applications that spans a LAN/WAN with latency implications, and the software...

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Omega and Mesos

“Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon” on Wired provides an overview of how Google is moving from Borg to Omega, and Twitter on the Mesos road.  Mesos provides isolation of...

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FSM and Event Sourcing

For some while I’ve been kicking around various Proof of Concepts (PoCs) that leverage Finite State Machines (FSM) and Event Sourcing to solve various financial problems.  It’s thus nice to read what...

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Node.js: Socket.IO vs. Lightstreamer

Lightstreamer take an interesting tack with Node.js, and provide a view of Socket.IO vs Lightstreamer, offering the view that features and performance are a reason to consider such and option.  Curious...

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Tibco (StreamBase) and Software AG (Apama) Thoughts

Wall Street & Technology offers a view on the recent CEP buying spree.  My view is that from a financial services perspective, having low latency messaging bus that connects active in-memory data...

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Oracle In-Memory Database Cache

The tech news wires are a flutter with Larry Ellison’s keynote at OpenWorld.  Of particular interest is the in-memory database feature of 12C: Oracle In-Memory Database Cache enables you to improve...

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Amazon Kinesis – Streaming Scale

Interesting additional to the Amazon cloud Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale. Amazon Kinesis can collect and process hundreds of...

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Unified/Free Lambda Architectures

Been pondering about lambda architectures recently.  Datasalt offers an update a few months ago, pointing us at unified and free lambda architectures: Unified – the same code available to both the...

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Wolfram Programming Cloud – Thoughts

Wolfram Programming Cloud is now live.  There is a cloud gallery providing a range of simple samples which is a good start.  There is quite a lot of documentation which is a good start.  Having not...

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OpenStack, Mesos and Docker – PaaS

eBay’s 2014 posting on “Delivering eBay’s CI Solution with Apache Mesos” offer a hint of where we should possible be pushing with cloud computing: Our new Mesos cluster is set up on top of our existing...

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AWS Scale

High Scalability has an interesting article on Amazon, “The Stunning Scale Of AWS And What It Means For The Future Of The Cloud”, coupled with an older article, “Amazon Architecture”.  Both offer some...

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Event-Driven Applications in the Cloud – AWS Lambda

Since the recent AWS Lambda launch, there have been numerous articles providing insight into the service.  What’s key from my perspective is that Amazon have enabled event from other services, thus...

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