• Dealing with the Seven Year Itch, Working at Microsoft and a few thoughts on the Google Hiring Process
• Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes
• Can RDF really save us from data format proliferation? – The closest thing to a deployable web technology that might improve describing these kind of data mashups without parsing at any cost or patching is RDF. I’ve always found this particular argument by RDF proponents to be suspect.

Al Tenhundfeld – Rails Style Database Migrations in .NET

Ayende Rahien – Examines Persistent & Distributed Storage

Brad Abrams – Framework Design Guidelines: On the usage of Sealed Classes

Eric Lippert – Future-Proofing A Design

High Scalability Blog

• Intro to Caching,Caching algorithms and caching frameworks part 1
• Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth (IMVU case study)
• Database Sharding for startups
• Reducing Your Website’s Bandwidth Usage – how to

Ramesh Loganathan – The definition of Cloud Computing… It Depends on Who You Ask

Simon Guest – “Micro Architectures” – Jim Wilt and I had an interesting discussion today, around the role of software architecture in the current economy.  I shared some thoughts around something I’ve been thinking that I call “micro architectures”

Todd Hoff

• Papers: Readings in Distributed Systems
• Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores
• Product: Project Voldemort – A Distributed Database

Videos, Podcasts and Links

Channel 9 – Maestro: A Managed Domain Specific Language For Concurrent Programming

Deepfriedbytes with Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff – Episode 24: Chatting about F# with Chris Smith and Dustin Campbell

Scott Hanselman – Hanselminutes Podcast 146 – Test Driven Development is Design – The Last Word on TDD

Bob McIlree – Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #14 – January 18, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft – Design/Development Methodologies

• Dew Drop – January 20, 2009
• Dew Drop – January 17, 2009
• Dew Drop – January 14, 2009
• Dew Drop – January 13, 2009