Google App Engine
The creator of Python Guido van Rossum gives an overview of the Google App Engine architecture from a developer’s perspective, followed by a live demonstration.
Category: Software Architecture
Software Architecture Videos and Tutorials
Bringing Services to the Cloud
This video describes what the essential components of a cloud service are. Then it presents lessons learned at Heroku in designing, deploying and supporting a cloud service for your favorite technology.
The Little Engine(s) That Could: Scaling Online Social Networks
The difficulty of partitioning social graphs has introduced new system design challenges for scaling of Online Social Networks (OSNs). Vertical scaling by resorting to full replication can be a costly proposition. Scaling horizontally by partitioning and distributing data among multiple servers using, for e.g., key-value stores using DHTs, can suffer …
PHP 5.3.1, MongoDB and Lithium on Windows 7 / IIS 7
This video demonstrates how to quickly get up and running with PHP 5.3.1 and MongoDB on Windows 7 and IIS 7 and getting started with Lithium, the most RAD framework for PHP 5.3+. Video Producer: spacialeffect.com
Large Scale Refactorings Using the Mikado Method
The Mikado Method: Code almost always depend on other pieces of code, hence one change often requires another in an entangled web. This works like the game Mikado (pick-up sticks), where you have to pick up lower scoring sticks in a certain order to reach the higher scoring Mikado stick. …
Cross Platform Gaming – Past, Present, & Future
This presentation explores how cross platform development considerations influence game developers and how platform providers can give developers the tools to make their choices easy ones. It discusses some of the main impediments to cross platform development. Some of these, such as basic hardware differences between platforms, seem obvious, but …