Learning from Five Years as a Skype Architect
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Andres Kutt has been with Skype since 2005, leading a growing team of architects. Before that, he worked as IT Deputy Director General for the Estonian Tax and Customs Board, and as a free consultant for financial institutions.
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DB and business logic
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Robert Sullivan
Maybe business logic in the db is not a good fit for everybody, but we must stop blindly accepting the latest wisdom as the end-all be-all truth.
The pgQueue was very interesting idea also, especially simplifying from once-and-only-once to at-least-once. There was a post recently here on Infoq that was about a very similar idea, except it was unfortunately a little misleading in that, perhaps for fanfare, it stated that there was no need for a queue. But they were still building all the queue infrastructure, it was just a simplified queue. So the idea of a queue structure still holds and is very useful, as can be illustrated in languages like Erlang, which supports concurrency nicely, offering tremendous performance.
It would be very interesting to hear more about this design, and also the various tools available from Postgres that were mentioned.
Thanks for the interesting talk!
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