October 6th, 2007 by Jilles
Kyle Wilson wrote recently a really nice piece on why software development is so hard, which for me didn’t include new insights (I’m already convinced) but did a really nice job on quantifying the problem space. Something which I had not seen before so clearly articulated. If you’re in this line of business, it’s a [...]
October 6th, 2007 by Jilles
Vogels (the CTO of Amazon) published a paper in which they describe their high available, eventually consistent data storage called Dynamo that will scale incrementally. It was an excellent read, and if you’re in the business of providing a high traffic, high available application (web or otherwise) I suggest you take a look!
That post did [...]
October 5th, 2007 by Jilles
I followed the iPhone introduction closely. Partly because I just love Steve Jobs to present, due to how he engages you (even if you’re watching the recordings) as well as the paradox of the casual Steve with overall slickness of the presentation and the products. But more importantly, I love Apple products. By now I [...]