Best of this Week Summary 11 January - 24 January 2010

• An overview of Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS). This is an architectural style that makes a clear distinction between commands that change the application state and queries that expose the application state.
  


• Four myths about code comments.
  


• Interesting look at Stack Overflow's network configuration, including how they handle failover.
  


• The European Commission has approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
  


• The history of Javascript in a slideshare presentation, including some more low level specifics like comparision (=== vs ==), anonymous functions, inheritance etc.