Craigslist uses a variety of data storage technologies, both SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB, memcached, etc). Craigslist’s Jeremy Zawodny discusses some of the systems architecture at Craigslist; with a focus on data storage technologies: what is in use, where, why and why not.
Most software architecture efforts have a strong waterfall nature to them. Software architects create an end-state vision with a multi-year plan to achieve it. Of course, the business and technological contexts both change long before that can be achieved. The result is a series of half-finished, very expensive, enterprise architecture …
Learn about the Amazon DynamoDB, a NoSQL, highly scalable, SSD-based, zero administration database service in the AWS Cloud. We explain how DynamoDB works and also walk through some best practices and tips to get the most out of the service.
This talk covers the creative process, our dual CPU-brain and the cognitive skills needed for successful programming. As an added bonus we will also investigate why doing nothing does not mean you are not working.
Learn about a company that has developed several projects with a Model Driven Development approach. The modeling tool which we used enables software designers to model behaviour of the software, and to check this model for certain issues, well known to developers: deadlocks, live-locks, starvation, race conditions etc. This is …
Ruby on Rails is huge. Even if you have worked with it for a long time, it’s unlikely that you have stumbled across everything yet. Do you really know what all of the built-in Rake tasks do? Have you seen all of the methods ActiveSupport makes available to you? Are …
