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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Northwest C++ Users Group videos: Exception Handling Cost, Concurrency

Discussion of the assembly language cost of exception handling on the x86 Windows and x64 Windows platform Herb Sutter – Discussions of concurrency & C++ futures September 2006 meeting of the Northwest C++ Users Group. Scott Meyers @ NWCPP: Red Code/Green Code – Generalizing Const C++ compilers allow non-const code to call const code, but [...]

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Exciting Resource on Building Scalable Websites

Do you want to know how Big Boys(like Digg, Google, YouTube, Flickr) look like inside? In this case the resource I found recently will be interesting for you. Let’s look under the hood: YouTube Architecture Flickr Architecture LiveJournal Architecture Amazon Architecture Google Architecture GoogleTalk Architecture FeedBurner Architecture MySpace Architecture Wikimedia architecture source – http://highscalability.com/

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Stay up-to-date and notified with Notif;)

For a last couple of weeks I’ve been involved in a huge C++ project that takes donkeys year to compile. What would you do during this compilation? Exactly, switch to another task. It’s enough to be easily carried away, and it’s very wasteful to check a build each 5 minutes. So, I decided to compose [...]

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Skype Protection Levels – Do you know about them?

Skype is not just a VoIP tool, it’s a black box with the multiple protection layers. In addition Skype’s an interesting look at software architecture in general. Look – you know, everyone is acquainted with classic client-server architecture, it’s easy to implement and maintain. But usually it’s accompanied with the expensive hosting infrastructure(do you know [...]

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Smugmug: 5 year story, from startup to profitability

I found very interesting site, and the guy who leads it is also keen on distributed and scalable stuff. So, if you have a time, just make a break and read a couple of enjoyable posts on scalability and certainly browse the library at http://www.royans.net/arch/   OK, I think I’ll write a couple of posts [...]

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

UDP hole punching. How Skype works

The following article contains interesting thoughts on skype internal routines. http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/82481/0   References STUN – Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Through Network Address Translators (NATs) – http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3489.txt Traversal Using Relay NAT (TURN) – http://www.jdrosen.net/midcom_turn.html

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Welcome to my blog

Hi here! I’m keen of programming and technology and am about to share my thoughts from time to time here. That’s it for now, have a good one!