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In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, Randy Shoup discusses the architecture of eBay. Topics discussed include eBay's architectural principles, horizontal and vertical partitioning, ACID vs. BASE, handling data inconsistency, distributed caching, updating eBay on the fly, architectural and coding standards, eBay's search infrastructure, grid computing, and SOA.
In this panel discussion from QCon San Francisco, several influential leaders of the software development community discussed and debated the future of the Java language and APIs based upon the lessons we have learned from the past. Topics included static versus dynamic languages, removing code from Java, forking the JVM, and the next big programming language.
An under the covers look at the Facebook Chat architecture. "The secret for going from zero to seventy million users overnight is to avoid doing it all in one fell swoop."
Developers today are constantly creating applications that consume services of other web sites. Consuming these services requires figuring out and understanding the sometimes complex Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
Major changes are planned for IntelliSense in Visual C++ 10. These include a faster, more reliant parser and replacing the opaque NCB file with a SQL Server Compact database that can be browsed directly.
The Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack beta is available for download. The Feature Pack extends the VC++ Libraries which come with Visual Studio 2008.
Red Five Labs is bringing the .NET Compact Framework to S60 and the Symbian OS. Symbian is the market leader for smart phone operating systems. In 1995, S60 alone had a 58% market share. Overall, 72% of devices were running S60 or some other variant of Symbian.
On the Microsoft Visual C++ blog Stephan T. Lavavej, a library developer, speculates about the future of the C++ language.
This past year Microsoft introduced Phoenix a project aimed at transforming the traditional blackbox compiler into a transparent one.
