Author Archives: ceracm

Decomposing applications for deployability and scalability – part 1

In April 2012, I started giving a talk called “Decomposing applications for deployability and scalability” . It discusses the benefits and drawbacks of decomposing a monolithic application into a collection of independently deployable and scalable services. Below is the version … Continue reading

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Low-cost internet access while traveling overseas

AT&T international data roaming is expensive. Usually, I’ve relied on hotel and conference WIFI or I’ve purchased a small data plan for my iPAD. But for my recent trip to Melbourne Australia I decided to get a MIFI. Originally, I … Continue reading

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Fjords, presentation patterns, NoSQL, Scala etc. In Norway

I recently spent a couple of days in Oslo, Norway at the JavaZone conference. This was my second time at the conference and once again I was impressed: great presentations; an overflow room overlooking the exhibit floor where you can tune … Continue reading

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Polyglot persistence for Java developers – presented at @oakjug

Last wednesday, I gave a presentation on NoSQL databases at the East Bay Java User Group (@oakjug), which meets monthly in downtown Oakland, CA.  The talk gives an overview of NoSQL and compares and contrasts Redis, Cassandra and MongoDB using … Continue reading

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Learn about ScalaTest at the July East Bay JUG meeting

This coming wednesday (7/20) at the July meeting of the East Bay JUG Bill Venners will be talking about ScalaTest, which is a very nice, modern open-source testing framework for Scala and Java applications.

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