Disruptive Technologies in the Data Layer
This article discusses the data layer has changed through the introduction of Distributed Caching, Clustering, Shared Nothing Architectures and Column orientation.
Performing Efficient Cross-Cache Joins in Coherence
You need to return a data set made from related items in different distributed caches. You need to do a join. So how do you do it efficiently in Coherence?
Shared Nothing v.s. Shared Disk Architectures: An Independent View
This article looks at the Shared Nothing Architecture when compared with its main competitor: Shared Disk.
Are Mocks All They Are Cracked Up To Be?
I noticed the below snippet in Martin Fowler in his article on the subject of Mock based testing (Mocks Aren’t Stubs)
“I’ve always been an old fashioned classic TDDer and thus far I don’t see any reason to change. I don’t see any compelling benefits for mockist TDD, and am concerned about the consequences of coupling [...]
