I’ve been quite busy lately with the Thanksgiving holiday and additionally I recently changed jobs. I now work for Global Crossing and am excited at the new challenges and opportunities in front of me. Recently I was able to get through my various industry articles and readings. I would like to highlight some really important and worthwhile ones here:
- Facebook is not following Google’s lead and moving towards batteries built-in to the power supplies of each server.
- Some details were released about the backend of WoW, pretty impressive.
- If you have not been following the NoSQL movement over the past year or so, Jonathan Ellis put together a great article summarizing the main players in this space. After reading Jonathan’s post I’m going to look into Cassandra more, as previously I had favored Project Voldemort, however the ability to add/remove live nodes is important to me.
- Randy Shoup, Distinguished Architect for eBay, gave a wonderful presentation on eBay’s Challenges and Lessons from Growing an eCommerce Platform to Planet Scale (PDF | video).
- Nati Shalom put together a nice article on the relationship between disk and RDBMS and why it inherently makes databases so easy to break.
I found Randy Shoup’s presentation the most interesting out of my readings this weekend. Anytime experience can be summarized into general recommendations for other people in the industry, it is huge win for all and makes the information more worthwhile for all.
