Coherence

• Beyond the Data Grid: Coherence, Normalisation, Joins and Linear Scalability (QCon)
• Coherence Part I: An Introduction
• Coherence Part II: Delving a Little Deeper
• Coherence Part III: The Coherence Toolbox
• Coherence Part IV: Merging Data And Processing
• Coherence: The Fallacy of Linear Scalability
• How Fault Tolerant Is Coherence Really?
• Merging Data And Processing: Why it doesn’t “just work”

Coherence Patterns

• A Reliable version of putAll()
• A Singleton Service
• Joins: using Key-Association (Simplest)
• Joins: using Snowflake Schemas & CQCs (Intermediate)
• Joins: with Connected-Replication (Advanced)
• Managing Versioning
• The Collections Cache

Links

• Interesting Links Dec 2011
• Interesting Links Oct 2011
• Interesting Links July 2011
• Interesting Links Feb 2011
• Interesting Links Dec 2010

Analysis & Opinion

• The Rebirth of the In-Memory Database (2011)
• Is the Traditional Database a Thing of the Past? (2009)
• Shared Nothing v.s. Shared Disk Architectures: An Independent View (2009)
• Component Software. Where is it going? (2005)
• Do Metrics Have a Place in Software Engineering Today? (2004)

Test Driven Development

• Are Mocks All They Are Cracked Up To Be?
• Beyond Stubs: Why We Need Interaction Testing
• Isolating Functional Units: Why We Need Stubs
• Test Oriented Languages: Is it Time for a New Era?

Team / Process / Interviewing

• Four HPC Architecture Questions – With Answers
• Interviewing: The Importance of Examining Applied Knowledge
• Learning Practices for Distributed Teams (ICST)
• Mapping Personal Practices
• The Business Analyst Test
• The Iffy Tractor (Can they code OO?)

Other Stuff

• Software Writing and the Intellectual Superiority Complex