In a recent post I mentioned my next big project is to build an ad server engine. This will basically respond to ad requests and will record stats for served ads (such as impressions, clicks, custom interactions and whatever else you might want to track). This post is about the system’s design, how ...
Note: 1) Dr. Lin Rui Zheda the " software engineering thinking" book full chapter 8. This is Mr enough in their own operating company after the success of a profound summary, it is the recommendation of another of his article entitled "University of the Decade" is also very good. 2) the article I di ...
The PostgreSQL community and the database industry have a bewildering profusion of clustering product and projects, utilizing a plethora of technologies and optimized for a diversity of different requirements. Clusters are single-master, multi-master, middleware, database engine, application-based, ...
Mature industries like banking, pharmaceuticals and insurance have been outsourcing for decades – even before the term became popular. These verticals have standardized processes in their industries which enable them to easily scale – based on the economy and market conditions. Because outsourcing h ...
Today’s Housing Market Trends in the United States If you own a home, it is important to consider the housing market trends occurring in the United States today. Recent reports indicate that the market is continuously inconsistent and that the market is actually experiencing a high level of underper ...
Java scalability specialist Terracotta has acquired the intellectual property associated with Quartz, a popular open-source job scheduler, part of Terracotta’s mission to integrate common open-source Java application components into its middleware solution. Terracotta has already integrated SQL-quer ...
I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we’ve won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to ...
The AMO team met in Mountain View last week to develop a 2010 plan. We’ve been wanting to change some key areas of our development flow for a while but we needed to make sure time was budgeted in the overall AMO and Mozilla goals. As usual, the timeline will be tight, but the AMO developers do amazi ...
Forecasting has been available as a rationalized business practice for more than a century. Yet, we believe that we when it comes to scalable forecasting, Lokad is one of a kind. We invested a lot of efforts to scale Lokad up during 2009 to address the needs of our largest customers. In particular, ...
