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A sane architecture for Android apps
Building native Android apps is fairly simple: just throw some Java code together, add some XML to it and there you have it: a cool new Android app. But also sadly in most cases an unmaintainable Android app in the long run. For many developers this seems to be just fine but I often asked…
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Consistent Hashing – intelligentes Sharding
Stellen Sie sich folgendes Szenario vor: Sie betreiben eine Webapplikation, die noch relativ jung ist, aber die Userzahlen explodieren und vor allem die Datenbank hinter der Anwendung ächzt schon unter der Last – vor allem der vieler Lesezugriffe. Die Lösung für dieses Problem ist allgemein bekannt: Caching. Doch damit die Caching-Architektur horizontal skalieren kann, müssen…
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DomniklStatsdBundle: Monitoring mit statsd in Symfony2-Projekten
Während mit klassischen Monitoringlösungen wie Nagios Systemdaten überwacht werden können, eignet sich die Kombination aus statsd und Graphite hervorragend für effektives Monitoring von Businessprozessen in Webanwendungen. Auch für Symfony2-Projekte wäre so eine Lösung praktisch – eine Variante stellt der Artikel vor.
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Message Queues for web applications with STOMP
Just like human beings, machines need to communicate with each other – and they do this by passing messages around. The simplest form is to use a protocol like TCP and build some sort of API on top of it. But sometimes this just isn’t enough, especially if you want the connection to be reliable…
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Grunt – a JavaScript build tool
Build systems have a long tradition in software development infrastructures. They allow for easy automation of tedious tasks that have to be run often while a software product is in development. And there is a great variety of such tasks: compiling source files, running unit tests, gathering metrics from the code and finally deploying it.…
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15.12. Using custom annotations in PHP
When developing enterprise software one should always keep an eye on writing code that is easily maintainable, testable and extendable. Design patterns already propose a way to implement a loosely coupled architecture. With annotations you can take a step forward to make your code look even more expressive, focusing on the primary problem instead of…