Monthly Archives: July 2008

The Document-Blob Model

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Stuart

Update September 22, 2008: I have abandoned this model.  I’m still using Hadoop, but with a much simpler data model.  I’ll post about it at some point. … Gosh darn, it’s hard to get this right.  In my most recent … Continue reading →

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Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Stuart

Google recently released its Protocol Buffers as open source. About a year ago, Facebook released a similar product called Thrift. I’ve been comparing them; here’s what I’ve found: Thrift Protocol Buffers Backers Facebook, Apache (accepted for incubation) Google Bindings C++, … Continue reading →

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Moving the ‘C’ in MVC

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Stuart

I’m sure I’m not the first to suggest this, but here goes. Ever since somebody first thought of applying the Model-View-Controller paradigm to the web, we’ve had this: The View is a conflation of HTML and JavaScript.  JavaScript is an … Continue reading →

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