The ArchestrAnaut

I think any good App Server engineer needs to learn about checkpointing.  It’s such a critical piece of how App Server does what it does that you can’t simply be ignorant of it.  Fortunately it works so well that most people never have to troubleshoot it… as opposed to troubleshooting why you can’t get communications with a platform to deploy something.

Here’s an article that came out a couple days ago that discusses some instances where the checkpointing system may not act appropriately, or at least how you think it should.

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The second article discusses the success of using App Server on the High Speed Chinese Rail project.  I haven’t had  a chance to read it yet but I expect it will be really good.  I think anytime someone tries to tell you App Server can’t scale you can point to this as published evidence of the fact that it can.

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If you are a blogger on a decent platform one of the metrics you will see is what kind of search terms people used to find out.  We run WordPress so we get this kind of useful intel.  When I see certain terms I want to run off and write a white paper on it because some is interested and I want to teach.  Unfortunately I just don’t have that kind of time.   With that in mind I have decided to take a handful of search terms, either frequent ones or interesting ones, and write a one or two line blurb about each.  They may distill down to even to two or three world comment.  Hopefully it will help someone along the way.

So,  without furuther ado I present the First Edition of of Search Term Lightning Round

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