A few weeks ago I attended a rather thought provoking presentation by Udi Dahan on the Command-Query Segregation Principle. If you’re like me, then you might have confused this newer architectural principle with the other CQS (Command Query Separation), which is the classic OOP design principle that I wrote about in a recent post. The [...]
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I just read an interesting article called Inside MySpace.com. With 40 billion page hits a month (which they reached just three short years after launching), MySpace is currently living on the scalability frontier and thus offers unique insights into what kind of architecture and hardware it takes to service such massive demands. Here are ten [...]
In his blog post on Old School Programming, Wesner Moise waxes nostalgic about his pre-high school experiences with writing his own disassembler and assembler for the Comodore 64. Apparently he used his homemade dissassembler to decode and rewrite the entire 8k BASIC ROM back to source and then used his assembler to add his own [...]
A few years ago I shifted roles from a developer team lead who coded almost full time to an Architect. Although I am naturally a bit of an abstract thinking and find architectural issues interesting, I have always been hesitant about this role because of the ubiquitous Architecture Astronauts that have given the discipline a [...]
