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Weekend well spent with JSFoo & NodeJS
Had been to the wonderful JavaScript conference JSFoo last week. The tremendous enthusiasm in the web development community for server side JavaScript was all at display. Personally, I have spent a lot of time coding visualizations with JavaScript. However only recently did I write some tidbits of code with NodeJS …
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The Bleeding Edge Of A Web Application...
Most web applications have the well-known 3-tiered structure - WebTier > ApplicationTier > DataTier. Both WebTier and ApplicationTier have the web-layer to parse the incoming HTTP requests. Its in the WebTier that one deploy's load-balancing L4-routers like Apache/Nginx or Netscaler like appliances. HTTP requests are forwarded by the WebTier to the ApplicationTier …
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Application Topology Graphs - Usecase, Different Product Offerings, Prototype Using D3 and jsPlumb
Graph depictions are common for problems like computer networks, social networks etc. Sometime ago, I came across the use-case of graphs for software application topologies. This post covers the few things I discovered on the topic of application topologies and their graphical representation. Table of Contents Usecase Prototype About these …
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Effective Java
I read this beautifully written article a few days ago - "I will not do your tech interview". I can't agree more with the author. Every single time I have had to give/take a technical interview, more than the sense of being inadequately prepared I feel like carrying an inexplicable …
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System and Application health - Is there a data collection challenge at the DC?
My champion-hacker friend Sumanth and I spent a little time few weeks ago digging to know if there was a data collection challenge for system and application health metrics at a typical small data center. Here is the little that we discovered... Table of Contents Usecase IT Resources Quantum of …