Recently my attention has been directed to Microsoft’s Volta split-tier technology. Volta is addressing the same set of issues as Request Based Distributed Computing (RBDC). Key issues directly addressed by both Volta and RBDC include: Drivers Build Distributed Applications Provide programmers with a unified programming model (i.e. not deal with a separate programming model...
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Archive for February, 2008
Tier-agnostic Requests and Microsoft Volta
RBDC Illustrated
The purpose of this post is to illustrate the behaviour of Request Based Distributed Computing (RBDC). This is how I summarised RBDC in a recent post: Request Based Distributed Computing is a small extension of the http protocol and notion of server, proxy and client. Rich Internet Applications, SOA architected applications and SETI@home type...
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WordPress is as smooth as …
Just updated WordPress driving this blog to 2.3.3. Very pleasantly surprised. The update went exactly as the upgrade advice said!
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Will your government help you be healthy?
I wonder – according to recent research healthy people are more expensive for governments!
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Are you a “Real Aussie”?
The SMH gave us a good test of our Aussieness a few weeks ago.
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2007 SAT1 percentiles confirm inadaquacies in UAC process
The College Board has released the 2007 SAT1 composite percentiles. The percentiles are very close to those of 2006 and my report of the inadaquacies in UAC’s conversion of SAT1+AP into a UAI is confirmed.
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RBDC, Continuation Passing Style, Closures, Lazy Evaluation and Mobile Applets
It has been recently pointed out to me that the mechanisms underlying Request Based Distributed Computing – RDBC (see primer) are related to Continuation Passing Style CPS, Closures, Lazy Evaluation and Mobile Applets. This is a good insight. Lets have a look at it. The CPS pattern is where the caller passes the callee...
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