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In my previous postings about Amazon´s SimpleDB data model and API I explained, what Amazon´s online database service - or to be more precise: tuple space - has to offer in general. If this sounds interesting to you, then now welcome to the desktop. Because...
Amazon´s SimpleDB is an exciting new player in the database world. It´s free, it´s online, it´s not relational. SimpleDB is a dynamic database implementing a tuple space . Currently SimpleDB (as of Jan 08) is in beta - but not everyone can get his hands...
Have you heard about Amazon´s online "database service" SimpleDB ? They describe it like this: "Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time." So it´s not a RDBMS, because Amazon does not call the data "relational...
I received a couple of comments on my posting on how bad RPC can be for your mental health . Although the feedback was positive and agreed with my statements, some expressed concern as to what an alternative to RPC-syntax could be. I thus feel encouraged...
What is a subroutine call like the following? int r = Calc(a, b); It is an abstraction and a promise! It is an abstraction of something like this push a push b call 1234 pop r The 3GL syntax hides all the low level details like allocating a stack frame...
While pondering about how to get a grip on software architecture, I now and again of course stumble upon questions on communication between distributed software parts. WCF then springs up as the state-of-the-art technology to answer those questions. But...
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