Mark Edgington

Tag: architecture

  • QCon day 5 – how is ebay architected

    Its been interesting to listen to speakers, each of which portraits the strategies and principles and this time was the turn of Randy Shoup. His four strategies for architectures for scale. Partition everything ASync everywhere Automate everything Remember everything fails Around these points he very clearly showed pattens ebay have implemented and how these directly…

  • QCon day 4 – Clustered architecture patterns

    Ari Zilka CTO of Terracota gave an excellent presentation on how the product works and how it can be used. I was not going to attend this session, but he was excellent on the previous sessions panel, so i was drawn to it. His view on the world of using stateful in memory data and…

  • QCon day 4 – Performance and Scaleability panel

    Scale up, Scale out, Split the problem space, tune or re-architect. You may want to build with a vendor in mind.

  • QCon day 3 – keeping 99.95% uptime

    I found the speaker a little monotone, but the content of the talk was very interesting. It provided a very clear view of how Merrel Lynch deals with the billions of daily messages, produced by there systems globally. The break down of message precedence and the aim of automated fixing of an issue within an…