Dazed & Confused

Browsing through some blogs today I stumbled upon Domain Based Web Testing, which seems like a good idea. It would take some effort to develop, but in the long run it would probably pay off. We have a fairly large Watir suite at work right now, and a lot of the has the type of [...]

Listening to Werner Vogel (Amazon) and Dan Pritchett (EBay) talk about their architecture and design for scalability at QCon was a real eye-opener. I doubt I will need any level of scalability close to theirs in the systems I usually work on, but it is an interesting topic. One of my main concerns when developing [...]

I wanted to write a couple more blogs from QCon as I walked away with a lot of interesting thoughts, but I’ve been totally swamped with both work and personal stuff since I got back. I’ll still write a couple of them, but in the meantime InfoQ has a good summary here.

Yesterday was pretty much about architecture. Werner Vogel from Amazon did a good talk about how they handle development and scaling. Dan Pritchett from eBay also did a good talk on how they do management and monitoring of their +5000 nodes. One interesting thing he mentioned was that their major problem and the reason they [...]

Alright so I’m at QCon, and it’s looking good. Venue is decent, and the Architectural track is good. The talk by Kevlin Henney and the panel debate lead by Martin Fowler was pretty good. Right now I’m at a usability talk, and it isn’t bad, it’s just not for me. The keynote by Werner Vogels [...]