Regarding: 'ARCHITECTURE'

Motherhood and Apple Pie —

The axioms of web architecture and an invitation for big vendors to understand them.

lesscode.org 17:00

IBM Poopheads: "LAMP Users Need to Grow Up" —

That is to say, they don’t get it. This started out as a simple rant and turned into a decent sized essay on basic shared-nothing architecture and scaling down.

tomayko.com 18:29

Tim Bray evaluates the web’s basic design from the perspective of the Fallacies of Distributed Computing. Reminds me of TimBL’s Axioms of Web architecture a bit. This stuff is essential to understanding why the web succeeded where other systems failed and why the web seems quirky in some ways compared to other distributed computing systems.

tbray.org 00:38

Mechanical Analogies To Web Stuff, Part 2. —

Really interesting analogy between web architecture and a car crash. This is the piece that’s missing from almost every conversation about whether any given web framework or component “scales”. (via @jperkins)

kitchensoap.com 05:49

REST as an engineering discipline —

Bill de hÓra knocks one out of the park: “I think sometimes that the problem people have with REST is that it’s so well-defined; it’s not witchcraft, it’s not a cargo cult. You can’t argue with it on a relativistic basis or apply clever rhetoric or continuously redefine what it means. An architectural style isn’t ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – you have to decide if it’s the right fit for your problem space and if not, you have to come up with a more appropriate one.”

dehora.net 08:16

Patterns of Web Architecture —

An all around great post from Bill de hÓra. Wow.

dehora.net 15:55

Git for Computer Scientists —

Okay, I’ve read about five of these articles purporting to explain Git’s internal conceptual framework. This was the first that really made things click in any significant way.

eagain.net 07:53

On software architecture —

Roy Fielding on the difference between architecture, architecural styles, patterns, implementations, and applications.

roy.gbiv.com 18:52

MapReduce: A major step backwards —

Rut-roh. The RDBMS crowd is none too happy about the recent MapReduce talk. This article suggests they’ve solved all these problems a long time ago and that MapReduce is basically retarded. This discussion will get interesting over the next few weeks.

databasecolumn.com 00:30

The ESB Question —

This is a scary description of a small chunk of my tech career: “In a previous life, I helped develop ESBs. I’ve written about them and I’ve promoted them. But somewhere along the way, I lost the religion.”

steve.vinoski.net 04:58

The Rule of Least Power - W3C TAG Finding 23 February 2006 —

“There is an important tradeoff between the computational power of a language and the ability to determine what a program in that language is doing.”

w3.org 05:11

What nine of the world’s largest websites are running on —

Linux, Apache, PHP, and memcached are the big winners. Nice to lighttpd represent.

royal.pingdom.com 02:29

The Mythical Business Layer —

“It was as if its architects were given a perfectly good hammer and gleefully replied, ‘neat! With this hammer, we can build a tool that can pound in nails.’” — that is THE SINGLE FUNNIEST SENTENCE ever assembled in the history of english language!

worsethanfailure.com 08:29