Some posts I liked to read this week
10 lessons from 35K tps - Paul Nielsen talks about some of things he learned while developing a system that had a 35000 Transactions per second (GASP) requirement. (MS Sql Server)
Eventually Consistent - Werner Vogels talks about data consistency semantics in large distributed systems and data replication.
Software Estimates and the Parable of the Cave - Scott Westfall talks about software estimation....
Newly Discovered Design Pattern: "Code Well." - reginald braithwaite talks about an experience he had with code patterns just for the heck of it and the best pattern we should give our focus the Code Well pattern.
Three links only, sorry. Slow week (and even more busier than usual)