Brian Ritchie

Building distributed systems can be complex undertaking. This makes solid architecture, design, coding, and testing all critical to success. Failure at any of these points can lead to degraded performance, unhandled failures, unplanned expenses required to redesign the system, and ultimately lost customers.

Packt Publishing has published their 2000th book!  You can buy my book RavenDB: High Performance and many more from Packt in this amazing Buy One, Get One Free offer  http://bit.ly/1j26nPN

Two of my favorite things working together: Spotify & AirPlay.  This tip lets you play your Spotify library for free on your home theatre! 

My book RavenDB High Performance was recently published by Packt Publishing. The team at Packt was great to work with and I had support from a strong group of reviewers: Ayende Rahien (of RavenDB fame), Paul Stovell (founder of Octopus Deploy), and Mohammed Ibrahim.

I have an application that I'm moving from a SQL Server database to a RavenDB Document Database. The first order of business is updating the data model. Document data modeling and relational data modeling are totally different.

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It was time to update my developer home page.  In the past, I've been focused on using server-side technology to create the page.  However, times have changes & the server-side isn't all that important for this site. It was more important to have something that was easy to maintain & super-low cost.

Continuing my CQRS world tour...I gave my CQRS presentation at the Jax Code Camp 2012 this past Saturday.  It was a great crowd with lots of representation from the wicked smart engineers at Feature[23] and others from the Jacksonville developer community.