Best of this Week Summary 3 August - 9 August 2009

• Securing SOAP/webservices overview and tips including encryption, testing, maintainability and reusability.
  


• Four steps to securing webservices with focus on testing.
  


• Several junit best practices. And related antipatterns.
  


• Overview of StackOverflow.com's architecture, including general tips. The tools are MS, but the mentioned principles apply everywhere. Quite a lot on scaling up and out. Also included is how Saleforce.com solved its perforance problems in the database (Oracle).
  


• Awesome, parts of the original source code of Apollo 11's Command Module (Comanche054) and Lunar Module (Luminary099)! Pretty funny are some of the comments.
  


• A couple of more or less advanced Firebug usage tips: advanced debugging with the console, replacing a Javascript funtion in the console and profiling.
  

Best of this Week Summary 16 June - 22 June 2008

• Nice (basic) overview on the architectural challenges Twitter has regarding updating thousands of followers when a user posts a message.
  


• Ten good tips to improve your XML effectiveness and efficiency.
  


• References to good articles on scaling and performance tuning monitoring of MySQL.
  


• This article examines Firebug and YSlow as tools for analyzing and improving performance of Ajax applications.
  


• What are some of the the architectural challenges for mobile applications in the web 2.0 era?
  


• Examples of some major enterprises where Adobe AIR ("the cross-OS runtime that lets you run rich internet applications on your desktop") is already being used. They include Nasdaq, Deutsche Bank.