Scala and Twitter update

Recently wrote about a presentation on the interesest in Scala of tech-lead at Twitter. On another site a Twitter developer wrote half a year ago that several people at his…

Distributed software with JGroups

JGroups A distributed application, where nodes of the application communicate with each other over a LAN using UDP. Each nodes discovers other nodes automatically, when a node crashes or shuts…

Scala and twitter

By stumbled on a presentation by API lead of Twitter on Scala. For a moment I hoped Twitter was developed, but the language used at Twitter is Ruby. The speaker…

Scala release

The final release of Scala 2.7.3 is out! You can download the release from the scala-download page. Some background: Scala is a elegant language that runs on the JavaVM. Unlike…

Parallel execution of SQL

The end of increasing clockspeeds The clock-speed for processors doesn’t increase anymore due to physical limits. The only way for processor-makers like Intel and AMD to increase the speed of…