Sylvain WallezIrregular musings of a busy geekSpeeding up mobile web applications- April 29, 2008 It's been nearly one month since I started full speed at Goojet, and I already learned a lot on the mobile web and J2ME. One of the key issues in the mobile web is latency: connections are long to establish, and data transfer rates are low. Not everybody has a 3G phone nor an unlimited data plan. Connection establishment latency can be mitigated in two ways: Use persistent HTTP1.1 connections. By reusing the same TCP socket for several HTTP requests, you save the non-negligible connection..http://bluxte.net/blog/2008-04/29-54-29.html Goodbye Joost, hello Goojet- April 5, 2008 I have been working at Joost for the last two years as architect of backend systems and tech leader of the backend development team. I started there at a time when the architecture of the system was a blank paperboard. Exciting times, that allowed me to use my creative thinking and build amazing stuff with an amazing team. But also exhausting times, that got me quite burned. For the last 6 months or so, Joost has been undergoing many changes: organisational changes, stragegy changes (not yet...http://bluxte.net/blog/2008-04/05-49-32.html Cluster computing commoditization- April 2, 2008 I came across an interesting report on the first Hadoop Summit that happened last week. Hadoop (an open-source implementation of Google's distributed mapreduce infrastructure) is getting a lot of steam, and there are now higher-level open source projects emerging on top of it that I wouldn't even haven't dreamed of a few years ago. This is a perfect example of commoditization at work, and actually multiple commoditization trends nurturing each other: the cluster physical infrastructure is...http://bluxte.net/blog/2008-04/02-27-10.html |