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Virtual Panel: Current State of NoSQL Databases
NoSQL databases have been around for several years now and have become a choice of data storage for managing semi-structured and unstructured data. These databases offer lot of advantages in terms of linear scalability and better performance for both data writes and reads. InfoQ spoke with four panelists to get different perspectives on the current state of NoSQL databases.
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Graph API in a Large Scale Environment
MyHeritage is a rapidly-growing destination used around the world to discover, preserve and share family histories. There is increasing demand for our services, accessed both internally and externally by our partners via the FamilyGraph API. Millions of API calls are made every day providing a huge challenge in terms of performance, scalability and security.
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Big Memory .NET Part 2 - Pile, Our Big Memory Solution for .NET
In part one, Leonid Ganeline introduced the concept of big memory and discussed why it is so hard to deal with in a .NET environment. In part two, Dmitriy Khmaladze describes their solution NFX Pile; a hybrid memory manager written in C# with 100% managed code.
Big Memory .NET Part 1 – The Challenges in Handling 1 Billion Resident Business Objects
We look at Big Memory, its applicability to managed execution models such as .NET, and different approaches for resolving GC pausing issues.
DevOps is Not a Feature!
DevOps is the industrialization of IT, says Nati Shalom. Organizations that wish to optimize for speed and cost cannot afford silos anymore."Doing DevOps" is not adding new features to existing tools.
A Few Good Rules
Peter Neumark from Prezi talks about the importance of deciding what development standards to adopt and to detect when they're past their expiry date.
Microservices: Decomposing Applications for Deployability and Scalability
This article describes the increasingly popular Microservice architecture pattern, used to architect large, complex and long-lived applications as a set of cohesive services that evolve over time. 12
Russ Miles on Antifragility and Microservices
Currently, Antifragility and Microservices are trending topics and this might be a hint that there are new architectural paradigms or design patterns on their way for building application systems.
Improving Your Asynchronous Code Using Tasks, Async and Await
Dave Marini delves into the history of asynchronous programming on the .NET platform, tracing through the early days of the Asynchronous Programming Model to today’s async/await patterns. 1
Distributing Complex Services in Cross-Geolocational IDCs
Micro Sun describes some of the techniques Tencent use to scale Qzone, a social networking platform in China with over 600 million monthly active users.
SQL Server 2014: NoSQL Speeds with Relational Capabilities
For the last four years MS has been working on the first rewrite of SQL Server’s query execution since 1998. The goal is to offer NoSQL-like speeds with the capabilities of a relational database. 2
Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure
Raffi Krikorian, Vice President of Platform Engineering at Twitter, gives an insight on how Twitter prepares for unexpected traffic peaks and how system architecture is designed to support failure. 1
