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.
  

Best of this Week Summary 28 April - 04 May 2008

• Nice overview on how Dutch social network Hyves (> 5M users) uses Gentoo.
  


• An explanation how to setup soapUI with Maven for automated SOAP testing.
  


• Interesting rumor is that Twitter might be moving away from using Ruby on Rails; it might move to PHP or Java. The potential reason for switching is most likely scalability. Their system has to support about 3 million messages a day and has over a million users (march 2008 numbers).
  


• Springsource (the guys from Spring) introduced their beta Application Platform (aka S2AP). Summarizing: "an application platform, built on OSGi, that can resolve Spring bean references by looking up services through OSGi - all of the capabilities OSGi provides, without the headache of deployment. And it would be able to deploy .WAR files through the use of a Tomcat (or servlet container) service."