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Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design"

Almost a month ago, I created a telegram channel with the goal of reading tech books consistently, and sharing summaries of them.This week, I have finished reading the first book - “A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout and shared all of the 21 chapter summaries in the channel. In this post, I will share what are the 3 ideas...
Show HN: Apache Cloudberry – Open-source Massively Parallel Processing database

Apache Cloudberry (Incubating)
Apache Cloudberry (Incubating), created by the original developers of Greenplum Database, is one advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) database, which evolves from the open-source version of the Pivotal Greenplum Database®️ but features a newer PostgreSQL kernel and more advanced enterprise capabilities. It can serve as a data warehouse and can also be used for large-scale analytics and AI/ML workloads. You can...
Introducing S2

Elevate the beating heart of data systems. Our team has worked a lot on reliable real-time ingest, where The Log is foundational. We loved the serverless experience of object storage, but it simply did not exist for streaming data. We believe the humble log – the stream – deserves to be a cloud storage primitive. With S2, we are previewing just that: S2...
Pragmatic Category Theory | Part 3: Associativity

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Queues in Apache Kafka®: Enhancing Message Processing and Scalability

In the world of data processing and messaging systems, terms like "queue" and "streaming" often pop up. While they might sound similar, they serve different purposes, and can significantly impact how your system handles data. Let’s break down the differences in a straightforward way.What are message queues?Imagine a coffee shop where customers place orders either online or in person. Once...
A Replacement for BERT

Finally, a Replacement for BERT TL;DR This blog post introduces ModernBERT, a family of state-of-the-art encoder-only models representing improvements over older generation encoders across the board, with a 8192 sequence length, better downstream performance and much faster processing. ModernBERT is available as a slot-in replacement for any BERT-like models, with both a base (139M params) and large (395M params) model size. ModernBERT will...

Month: May 2010

Software architecture should start with Why

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 24, 2010

I recently saw Simon Sinek‘s TEDx talk on Start with Why (see below) talking about leadership. But WHY am I telling you this? For one,…

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Nanoservices anti-pattern pdf version

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 18, 2010

The formatting on the html version of the nano-services is a bit off (Word to HTML is so much fun) so I am also making…

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Evolving Architectures – Part III starting out

Evolving Architectures – Part III starting out

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 17, 2010

Before we talk about the what/how let’s do a quick recap on why we’re here: Architecture is important to software projects Architecture and agile have…

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Evolving Architectures – Part II but Design is emergent

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 17, 2010

This is part II of a series on agile architecture. ]. In the previous installment, I provided a definition for software architecture and raised the…

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Evolving Architectures – Part I What’s Software Architecture

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 17, 2010

I’m writing a short series of posts for MS Israel MCS blog (in Hebrew) and I’d thought I’d translate them to English, as it seems…

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