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 [OakLeaf Systems] Very Large Databases: Bricks, BitVault and... : Adam Bosworth, who managed the intial development of Microsoft Access, went on to found CrossGain (together with Tod Neilsen, Access marketing honcho), sold CrossGain to BEA and became BEA's chief architect and senior vice president, and now is VP Engineering at Google, lists these three features that database users want but database vendors don't suppply: Dynamic schema, dynamic partitioning of data across large dynamic numbers of machines, and modern [Googlesque] indexing. Adam wants the the Open Source community to "[g]ive us systems that scale linearly, are flexible and dynamically reconfigurable and load balanced and easy to use." Adam does mean give, not sell.

 [West Coast Grid] Vogels on Scalability: Because scalability cannot be an after-thought. It requires applications and platforms to be designed with scaling in mind, such that adding resources actually results in improving the performance or that if redundancy is introduced the system performance is not adversely affected.Right on!

[Insights] Self-directed Messages: The Key to Scalable... : By combining grid computing and the Internet model of scalability with a generalization of itinerary-based routing, you end up with self-directed messages. This concept is the basis of the W3C’s WS Choreography Model.

[TextDrive Weblog] I'll be speaking at the Silicon Valley Ruby... : Ruby On Rails is an opinionated framework for developing web applications, and has a considerable amount of flexibility in the back end. While the framework is quite successful in removing the need for developers to worry about many back-end specific things, this separation tends to make issues with deployment, scaling and financing appear at inopportune times.

 [West Coast Grid] Web Services + Grid = Crazy Delicious: ...it seems likely that service-oriented applications””such as those based on Web services””will lead to significantly greater use of clusters (i.e., more business) than traditional, manually launched applications. Early efforts to gear clusters to become high-power hosting environments for these types of applications will position administrators well in a service-oriented era.

 [Blogs.sun.com] Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog: "If you had a grid available on line, I'd bring my whole budget to you." Granted his budget was something like $10,000 a quarter, but rumor has it there's a good business in the long tail. My view - most computing will be purchased by that tail.

 [Weblog.infoworld.com] Grid Meter | InfoWorld: Xchange ran an interesting editorial today about the telco industry's increasing interest in Grid computing. The author cited billing systems (where "Application virtualization can significantly improve performance for billing and statement generation"), business intelligence (where data processing demands are intense),... more

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