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.

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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?

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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.

Posted at Nov 24th | 2 comments | Filed Under: Architecture, Database, HPC read on

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 [...]

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ben (2) I’ve worked with software and with computers for a while now. Long enough to sometimes be useful but not so long as to have lost interest.

My experiences of late have largely focused around distribted caching, in particular with Coherence, and this has inevitably shaped my understanding of systems, so keep that in mind as you read on.

The articles here really fall into two categories: Coherence stuff that I know, and wider issues of distributed computing, running projects and the like, which I find interesting. You can read a little more about me here.

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