Archive for February, 2009

Nati Shalom to speak at Boston Scalability Group next Wednesday

Posted under Java, architecture, scalability by Anthony Chaves on February 11th, 2009. Comments Off

There is an interesting BostonSUG meeting next week at the IBM Innovation center in Waltham, MA.  GigaSpaces CTO Nati Shalom will speak on cloud-based infrastructure, space-based architecture, scalability with latency in mind and more.  BostonSUG web site for more details: http://www.bostonsug.org/2009/02/09/nati-shalom-speaking-on-february-18/

I’ll be there!

Dummy Code (Quick’n'Dirty vs. Engineered)

Posted under Java, Personal, Rails, Ruby, architecture, career, hibernate, scalability, spring, work by Anthony Chaves on February 4th, 2009. Comments Off

When creating software, two people will never write the same implementation of a method or system of non-trivial design.  Creating software is a problem solving process and there are usually many ways to solve one problem.  The solutions may differ in elegance and efficiency while giving the same output for a given set of inputs.  A correct solutions is a correct solution regardless of implementation. (more…)