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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. session state that you want to survive an application process crash), and to keep the application server/services layer stateless.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. He hasn’t changed.

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

In addition to that, software is increasingly dependent on other software to provide its functionality, be it WebServices, HTTP APIs, databases, or even external devices such as sensors. In 2003, Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf released their book Enterprise Integration Patterns. HTTP, TCP, FTP, MQTT, JMS), databases (i.e.,