Archive For The “Software” Category
Michael Hunter, who authors the Testing and Debugging blog at Dr. Dobb’s Journal, asked me for an interview on testing related topics some time back. I’ve long lamented that, industry-wide, there isn’t nearly enough emphasis on test and software quality assurance innovation. For large projects, test is often the least scalable part of the development…
Some months back I finished a paper with Joe Hellerstein and Michael Stonebraker scheduled to be published in the next issue of Foundations and Trends of Databases. This paper is aimed at describing how current generation database management systems are implemented. I’ll post a reference to it here once it is published. As very small…
Three weeks ago I presented at HPTS (http://www.hpts.ws/index.html). HPTS is an invitational conference held every two years since 1985 in Asilomar California that brings together researchers, implementers, and users of high scale transaction processing systems. It’s one of my favorite conferences in that it attracts a very interesting group of people, is small enough that…
Shankar Pal of SQL Server went to VLDB this year and passed his notes my way. Find them here: http://www.mvdirona.com/jrh/perspectives/content/binary/ShakarPal_VLDB2007.docx. Key points from my perspective: · Werner Vogels o Amazon able to lose a data center without missing SLA (note that this would also allow them to bring a down data center for service and…
Jacek Becla of the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC http://www.slac.stanford.edu/) team held a 1 day workshop on October 25th focused on Extremely Large Databases (http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb07/). The goal was to look at “practical issues related to extremely large databases that push beyond the current commercial state of the art”. SLAC has built some enormous DBs in the…