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 29 June - 05 July 2009

• Here's a Getting Started and bunch of Case Studies for Google App Engine with Java: case study 1, case study 2 and case study 3. Main things to take away:
  
  
  
  • GAE does not support the whole JEE API nor all regular frameworks.
    
  
  
  • Google's database for GAE is non-relational(!) but an object store
    
  
  


• A collection of web 2.0 architecture articles every software/application architect should know about, collected over the years by Dion Hinchcliffe.
  


• Great extensive article from Martin Fowler on the Scrum daily stand-up meetings, including tips on: benefits and consequences of common practices for daily stand-ups, how to run them effectively, stand-up patterns, what to talk about, when to run them, and the goals, to help beginners and remind experienced practitioners.
  


• A few weeks ago Google introduced Speed, its open source effort to all make the web faster. Looking at some of the feedback, it seems to currently contain only basic best-practices tips.
  


• Great long article on the history of Javascript and what hopefully awaits us in the future.