Econometa

Ben Hyde makes the great point that systems are often designed with an implicit assumption of uniformity in traffic loads, when in fact these loads usually follow a power law. Ben focuses mostly on network design, but this point is just as valid for application design. It’s understandable that this happens: you sit down to [...]

MashupCamp looks to be a great event, although with 300 attendees, a museum host, and sponsorship by Sun, Microsoft, Yahoo, and eBay, it probably won’t be the same kind of sweaty, seat-of-the-pants affair that other “camps” have been. In the meantime, I don’t know how I missed it up until now but John Musser’s ProgrammableWeb [...]