Throughout its history, software design has undergone a slow transformation that has redefined its meaning and practices and led to an ever-increasing valorization of software architecture. One of the driving forces behind this change has been the recalibration of the weight given to functional aspects on the one hand, and…

Database replication, eventual consistency and anomalies — Reducing latency, increasing read throughput and guaranteeing availability: these are all priority objectives for everyone wanting to improve the resilience and the performance of a computer system distributed over the internet. A method to achieve such goals is maintaining copies of the same data on multiple machines, independent of each…

The Hudson-ci.org Website has been closed down on Jan 31 2020, the update center is no longer available. Hudson, the ancestor of Jenkins, retires. In this occasion, let’s go through the story of the first butler of the software industry. Contents. In the beginning was the Shell. From DamageControl descended Hudson. …