Riak Development Guidance: The “Client Round Robin Anti-Pattern”
One of the features that is often available in Riak Client software (including the CorrguatedIron .NET Client, the riak-js client and others) is the ability to send requests to the Riak Cluster through a round robin style approach. What this means is each IP, of each node within the Riak Cluster is entered into a […]
Cloud Software Architect Necessities
Cloud Architecture is becoming more and more relevant in the software industry today. A lot of efforts are becoming less about software and more about cloud software. The whole gamut of cloud technology; platform, service, infrastructure, or platforms on platforms are growing rapidly in number. The days you didn’t need to know what the cloud […]
Building an iPhone Application
On the past few weeks I’ve been working on a new venture centered around the iPhone. The process of building our app has been quite an adventure and we’ve experimented with several technologies that were new to us before reaching our current technology stack. As we’ve finally got our stuff together and made an initial […]
SaaS and Religion: the Tenancy Debates. Do Customers Care?
(Warning: this is a long post. Only read it when sitting in a comfortable chair. Or a pool lounge, holding your CrunchPad.) Two recent posts by Enterprise Social Software vendors Jive and Atlassian set up a huge debate amongst my fellow Enterprise Irregulars. Here’s the money-quote from Jive: It’s not so long ago that it […]
