Design Patterns in the JDK

Design Patterns in the JDK, more, more.

Architecture of a Database System

Short book "Architecture of a Database System" from Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker and James Hamilton.

Oracle Real Application Clusters and Industry Trends in Cluster Parallelism and Availability

"Oracle Real Application Clusters and Industry Trends in Cluster Parallelism and Availability" from James Hamilton, Architect of Microsoft SQL Server:)

Game theory for automatic device driver synthesis

Article "Automatic Device Driver Synthesis with Termite" from scientists [EN].
ABSTRACT
Faulty device drivers cause significant damage through down time and data loss. The problem can be mitigated by an improved driver development process that guarantees correctness by construction. We achieve this by synthesising drivers automatically from formal specifications of device interfaces, thus reducing the impact of human error on driver reliability and potentially cutting down on development costs.
We present a concrete driver synthesis approach and tool called Termite. We discuss the methodology, the technical and practical limitations of driver synthesis, and provide an evaluation of nontrivial drivers for Linux, generated using our tool. We show that the performance of the generated drivers is on par with the equivalent manually developed drivers. Furthermore, we demonstrate that device specifications can be reused across different operating systems by generating a driver for FreeBSD from the same specification as used for Linux.

Short description [RU].

Cloud Computing Papers

Some Cloud Computing Papers from Illinois University.

Spring + NoSQL

Spring Data project

Subprojects:
- Blob-Stores
- Column Stores
- Document Stores
- Graph Databases
- Key Value Stores
- Map-Reduce
- Relational Databases
- Common Infrastructure

P.S. Один мой друг, который всерьез занимается Cloud, утверждает, что VmWare (Spring owner) мечтает свой стек технологий сделать стандартом для "облаков". И, вроде как, все к тому и идет. Спринговский доступ ко всякого рода "облачным хранилищам данных" фактически станем стандартом de facto.

P.P.S. Мой личный интерес в следующем:
Cloud - это абстракция над кластером. "Степаныч, скока щас?" - "100" - "подымай еще 100". Всякое приложение под cloud - stateless app, который все данные хранит в некотором распределенном хранилище. Это может быть Azure Table Storage, Google Datastore API, Amazon SimpleDB. Вот, по-моему, проектировать и реализовывать такие хранилища под заказ - самое интересное. Не использовать то, что уже есть, сидя на чужом public cloud, а реализовывать новое хранилище для заказного private cloud.

NoSQL Databases

NoSQL Databases
Lecture
Selected Topics on Software-Technology
Ultra-Large Scale Sites

Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Introduction and Overview
1.2 Uncovered Topics
2 The NoSQL-Movement
2.1 Motives and Main Drivers
2.2 Criticism
2.3 Classifications and Comparisons of NoSQL Databases
3 Basic Concepts, Techniques and Patterns
3.1 Consistency
3.2 Partitioning
3.3 Storage Layout
3.4 Query Models
3.5 Distributed Data Processing via MapReduce
4 Key-/Value-Stores
4.1 Amazon’s Dynamo
4.2 Project Voldemort
4.3 Other Key-/Value-Stores
5 Document Databases
5.1 Apache CouchDB
5.2 MongoDB
6 Column-Oriented Databases
6.1 Google’s Bigtable
6.2 Bigtable Derivatives
6.3 Cassandra
7 Conclusion
A Further Reading, Listening and Watching
B List of abbreviations
C Bibliography

P.S. Many thanks to Mark for the link.