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What I learned about Infrastructure

Posted on November 11, 2010

I learned a lot from Andrew Shaft's talk on building a private cloud. My biggest takeaway, perhaps not Andrew's main point, perhaps not even a point he was making, regardless… Clouds are not about virtualization. Virtualization is an implementation of … Continue reading →

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What I learned about Pretotyping

Posted on November 9, 2010

Patrick Copeland from Google gave a facinating talk about a concept called Pretotyping (or Pretend-o-typing). His talk dovetailed nicely into the conversations we've had at work about design thinking and illustrated in a powerful way how to use design thinking … Continue reading →

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What I learned about Software Design

Posted on November 8, 2010

Lesson 1 – Run your services as a remote service from the service client. The biggest thing I learned was that it seems everyone has pulled their service implementations out of their applications and into separate proceses. We have, traditionally, … Continue reading →

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QCon 2010 Lessons I learned

Posted on November 8, 2010

I just got back from the 2010 QCon SF conference. It was a very exciting week filled with great and some not so great talks. As usually happens after a conference, I am filled with new ideas and excited about … Continue reading →

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Another Coherence Video

Posted on October 28, 2010

We just posted another "Paddy Does Coherence" video on YouTube. Check it out: Also Karim Qazi, one of our engineering directors, posted a great post on data versioning and coherence. You can find it on the technology.edmunds.com blog: http://technology.edmunds.com/blog/2010/10/keeping-data-backward-compatible-with-coherence-pof.html

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Coherence video

Posted on October 19, 2010

We just posted a short video describing coherence that was shot a while back for our technology teams.  

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Data Services Topology

Posted on October 19, 2010

We are currently using Oracle's Coherence product as our primary data store behind our website. Coherence provides a scalable, fast data grid that allows for developers to easily access data and allows our data to be versioned so that structures … Continue reading →

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