Scale up!

These two open source projects seem awesome: Hypertable and Hadoop. Both inspired in most of Google's research papers.

I currently had a go with MogileFS - but not sure how it compares with Haddop's distritued file system. And how does Gearman compare with the Reduce functionality of Hadoop?


Hopefully will find the time to play with these technologies :)

Twitter Badge with links

I just added the twitter badge to this blog, but it annoyed me that the text was not linkified as it is in twitter's page.

hence, had to modify it slightly:
http://www.pedro.not.br/js/blogger.js (link probably won't be permanent)

Hopefully, this patch will be applied in the original too, since it's definetly a feature most users would want.

DSL

Tropecei no link para o esboço do livro do Martin Fowler sobre DSLs nesta entrevista sobre DSL com Phillip Calçado (ex-globo.com).

Achei curioso os exemplos estarem em C#. Torço para o Ayende conseguir lançar um livro antes em boo! :)

Urchin >> Machine Learning!

Google made available Urchin. It's an interesting move to enable enterprises do some data crunching... :)

I'll try get my hands on the beta.

Terracotta

Terracotta seems an interesting option for clustering java aplications. Although very limited in comparison with GigaSpaces, it's open source and the fact it manipulates your bytecode at the JVM level might make it really simple for developers deploy distributed apps.

I should also take a deeper look at the asm project - very cool!

TuneWiki

TuneWiki is powered by GigaSpaces and an overview of the architecture can be seen here.

Stay tuned :)

CVI

When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And for they looked but with divining eyes,
They had not skill enough your worth to sing:
For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

-- Shakespeare

Web 3.0

I had the pleasure of getting to know some brilliant people working at Cortex. Check their demo out:
http://www.cortex-intelligence.com/engine/

First Day!

This is my first day working at globo.com :)

I need some Space

I should really write a long post about GigaSpaces and the recent OpenSpaces Developer Challenge but I'll have to leave it for another day.

For now, I'll post a link to a short but nice video introducing Space Based Architecture with GigaSpaces.

Conceito 7

A Departamento de Informática da PUC-Rio recuperou o Conceito 7 da CAPES! Para quem não sabe, tínhamos sido rebaixados para o conceito 6 enquanto a COPPE (UFRJ) teve o seu pedido de promoção para 7 negado. Essa informação não é oficial ainda, mas parece que o mestrado em informática na PUC-Rio ainda é o único com o conceito máximo do país.

The Meaning of Liff

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Sempre sinto saudades de ler os livros do Douglas Adams!