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Best Practices for Planet-Scale Software Updates
A new Microsoft research paper has examined data from billions of Windows update queries from 300 million computers using the Windows update service in order to learn about the traffic characteristics of software patch distribution and also examine alternative architectures (P2P and caching) to support planet-scale software updating.
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Fowler Begins Updating Patterns of EAA Including GUI Patterns
Martin Fowler has started working on an update to his acclaimed book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture over the last few months. One of the major areas of focus thus far has been patterns relating to GUI architectures.