Pragmatic Programming Techniques

For location-based search, it is very common to search for objects based on their spatial location. e.g. find all restaurants within 5 mile...

Cloud Map/Reduce developed by Huan Liu and Dan Orban offers some good lessons in how to design applications on top of Cloud environment, whi...

I received some constructive criticism regarding my previous blog in NoSQL patterns that I covered only the key/value store but have left o...

I have observed a pattern from multiple enterprises moving from a traditional web app to a SaaS. Trying to capture this pattern and a numbe...

Oracle Coherence is a distributed cache that functionally comparable to Memcached . On top of the basic cache API function, it has some add...

I recently have attended a great talk from Kent Beck who is the thought leader in Extreme Programming, Test-Driven-Development and Code refa...

The recent rise of NoSQL provides an alternative model in building extremely large scale storage system. Nevetheless, compare to the more m...