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Pieter Hintjens, one of pioneers of the distributed computing and author of ZeroMQ library explains the basic premise behind ZeroMQ design and community. He covers fundamentals of designing large distributed applications using ZeroMQ library. First and foremost, the book is meant for intermediate to advanced programmers. You need to be aware of the networking concepts. All examples are in C, so you should have good enough grounding in the language. Once you are past these, understanding the concepts in the book is fairly easy. First part of the book is about Learning to work with ZeroMQ. This section covers all the patterns – Request-Reply, Dealer-Router, Pub-Sub, Proxy, Load Balancing and their combination and usage with each other. The example scenarios detail the scenario’s where these patterns fit in. This section also covers how to build reliability and availabil... (more)

Top Five Picks of Google IO 2012

Google IO 2012 developer conference has just concluded last week amid lot of fanfare.   I for one think that Google has lot more influence on Enterprise technology than it seems. Some of what Enterprises see as latest and greatest of technology (such as Map Reduce) has been pioneered in Google a while ago. This is one the main reasons why I followed this event closely. Over the 3 days Google had several technology and product announcements across the product lines.   Here are the top 5 picks at Techspot. #1 Google Compute Engine With Compute Engine, Google made it intentions clear ... (more)

Post Agile - State of Software Development

There is a significant change in how software is developed over the last decade. Agile had been the buzzword over the last decade and probably is most significant of changes in software development to date. Now that the hype around Agile has been subsided, it is worth an effort to understand what it is like post agile. Often we see Agile with a narrow perspective, limiting it to a few programming practices and nothing more. We also fail to notice the indirect influence and the larger impact of Agile over the last decade. State of post Agile Software Development will have to be seen... (more)

Enterprise Mobile Web Strategy

With the proliferation of devices in various screen sizes and running different OS, having a coherent mobile web strategy has become somewhat of a nightmare for the enterprise. Gone are the days, when the enterprise would just optimize the existing web site for mobile and let the content be served. Today’s consumer with the ever powerful device and increasing bandwidth is looking for experience that is equal to or at times better than the web. When trying to create an mobile strategy, enterprise need to ponder over this Should I build a native application for the mobile device Shoul... (more)

Big Data Trends in 2012

Big Data has caught the fancy of each and everyone. Consumer and enterprise world is looking to adopt the Big Data. Analysts are talking about it, proclaiming it to the next big thing! Below is my take on how the Big Data market space will evolve in 2012 and years to come. Data Analytics Service – We will start seeing SaaS vendors that will start offering data analytics as a service (e.g., 1010data). These vendors will be able to pull in your unstructured data and provide you standardized reports and data services. This is very similar to the Web analytics (like Omniture) but ac... (more)