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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Sep 7 - Adaptive load sharing in homogeneous distributed systems , D Eager, ED Lazowska and J Zahorjan - IEEE transactions on software engineering, 1986. Goetz Graefe, ACM Queue 6(4): 40-52 (2008). Aug 31 - Granularity of Locks and Degrees of Consistency , J. Lorie, G.F. Putzolu, and I.L. Nijssen ed., North Holland Pub.,

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.”

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Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

Abhishek Tiwari

In the CMS selection process, developer experience is not a factor, although successful implementation and ongoing maintenance require developer friendly tooling and support for modern software engineering practices. In 2011, the Obama campaign started using Jekyll extensively to power their fundraising platform.

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