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Lets face it – most IT systems don’t really work as well as we would like.  Surely by now we would have figured out how to build systems where you don’t have to have a different username/password for ever system accompanied by different ‘forgot password’ functionality for the same?  Surely by now someone would have figured out, and ...

The cloud, and cloud technologies, came about not from a sinister attempt by big companies to take over the world, but from our collective demand for computing resources.  Without even looking for statistics we know, as consumers or business, that we are demanding a lot more of our computing resources.  The amount of data that we want ...

To me the private cloud is an anti-cloud – I don’t see how a private cloud can possibly provide the economies of scale and office empire neutraility to make it an attractive alternative to a standard heavy-metal data centre. But maybe, just maybe, the adoption of the private cloud will begin to pave the way, in terms of attitudes and technologies, ...

In order to build massively scalable databases you, as an architect, will have to toss out data consistency. The knee-jerk reaction is that consistency cannot and should not be compromised but the reality is that real-time consistency is less important than you may think. It requires a bit of effort, more talking to users and re-engineering of ...

Definitions of technology that are clearly understood by a few early adopters are quickly thrown into disarray as soon as they become mainstream.  Marketers feel the need to become buzzword compliant and take to using the name of the technology to build new products or repackage old rope – and as soon as they are let loose things become ...