Archive for April, 2007

Why browse when you can simply search?

April 23rd, 2007

I had interesting discussions in the past few weeks about the use of Object Graphs and how that approach maps into a space model. It reminds me of the discussions I use to have when I used Versant as an object database and object store in the late 90s.  Object Graphs assume a certain hierarchy [...]

“Share Nothing Architecture” redefined

April 6th, 2007

"Share Nothing Architecture" is a common pattern for scaling out Web applications.
Generally speaking, the idea is to remove dependency between the scaling units, which in the case of a Web application means the Web Servers. Once these units become independent from each other, you can easily scale them just by adding more units. You can [...]