"Infrastructure Of the Social Web" Notes
Work that Matters
- Jim Connolly's take on Seth Godin's "Do work that matters" quote.
- Wikipedia Entry for "Trilemma", or the "Iron Triangle"
- My blog post on People being a manager's only "Unlimited Resource"
- The Aerodynamics of Human-powered Land Vehicles (pdf) referred to in the Steve Jobs video
Technology Deep Dive
- Steve Jobs predicts the future in 1997
- Wikipedia entry for "Three-Tier Architecture" (The "Grilled Cheese" Slide)
- "Lessons From FarmVille: How Zynga Uses The Cloud" (Hybrid Clouds)
- Amazon EC2 (Cloud Provider)
- RackSpace (Cloud Provider)
- RightScale (Cloud Solutions Provider)
SaaS Tools
- Google Apps
- Google Analytics
- SiteMeter
- Google+ (look for hangouts)
- Diagramly
- LucidChart
- GetSatisfaction
- Assistly
- Version One
- Rally
Technology Deep Dive (cont.)
- Yahoo YSlow, analytics to speed up your site
- Wikipedia Entry for "ACID" (Relational Database Design Principles)
- Wikipedia entry for "Brewer’s CAP Theorem"
- Brewer's original talk on CAP "Towards Robust Distributed Systems"
- Brewer’s CAP Theorem On Distributed Systems
BASE and "AP" Tools and Projects
- Wikipedia entry for BASE (Eventual Consistency)
- Amazon's Dynamo, High Availability Key-Value Datastore
- Project Voldemort
- Apache Cassandra Project
- Apache CouchDB Project
- Basho/Riak Project
"CP" Tools and Projects
- Wikipedia entry for BigTable
- HyperTable Project Page
- Apache HBase Project Page (Hadoop Database)
- Redis Project Page
- Memcached Project Page
- MongoDB Project Page
Graph Database Tools and Projects
Technology Deep Dive (cont.)
- Wikipedia entry for "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet" (Twilight Zone Episode)
- Database Sharding, Shared Nothing & Logarithmic vs. Linear Growth
- Wikipedia entry for "Shared Nothing Architecture"
- Fallacies of Distributed Computing
- Excellent Compare/Contrast of Various Post-Relational Tools
- nginex
- Apache Mahout
People & Process Notes
- Agile Alliance – Learn About Scrum
- Scrum Introduced in New New Product Development Game in the Harvard Business Review, January 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi & Ikujiro Nonaka.
- First contextually acknowledged use of the term "Sprint" in the Scrum Development Process by Ken Schwaber, October 1995
- "Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects - ISBN 978-0932633606, 2003"
- Wikipedia entry for "PeopleWare: Productive Projects & Teams - ISBN 0-932633-43-9, 1987"
- Wikipedia entry for "Learning Organization", the kind you want for the people you want to attract and keep.
- Wikipedia entry for influential process pioneer W. Edwards Deming
