Tweet Just in case you are looking for a profound introduction to distributed systems, I recommend the book “Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design” [1] by George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg. [1] http://www.cdk3.net/
Tweet From the Twisted Website: “Twisted is a framework, written in Python, for writing networked applications. It includes implementations of a number of commonly used network services such as a web server, an IRC chat server, a mail server, a Continue reading
Tweet Recently, some interesting projects emerged that make the vision of exchanging distributed information from mailinglists more and more true. ZZ/OSS has the vision that one day it will be able to reuse a certain mailinglist post or thread in Continue reading
Tweet This wonderful paper by Frank Buschmann and Kevlin Henney provides some useful information about software design patterns for distributed computing. A worthwhile read for relaxation at the weekend The document has been written for the EuroPLoP 2002 conference. There Continue reading
Tweet The Script Running Machine (SRM) will be optimized. Maintainer Derick Rethans sent the following TODO list to the SRM mailinglist: – Make connection handling Multi-threaded – Port the extension to ZE2 – Implement timers SRM is a PHP extension Continue reading
Tweet “The MyLifeBits project aims to put all personal documents and media online, to allow time-shifting, and location independence when you are connected to MyLifeBits.” (Microsoft Bay Area Research Center Media Presence Group), http://research.microsoft.com/barc/MediaPresence/MyLifeBits.aspx. This pointer came in via OSCOM Continue reading
Tweet MotusNet is a content network in which addressable objects, contents, are decoupled from the physical nodes that carry them. The content names in MotusNet are hierarchical, so that they can be aggregated in the routing tables to support a Continue reading