Tag Archives: architecture

Webservice API design tips – correct pagination and exposing deleted rows

by Laurence Posted on August 22, 2016

After working with dozens of REST, SOAP and ‘ad-hoc’ web services / APIs I’ve noticed a similar set of design problems by companies big and small. One gotcha I almost always see left out of an API is an easy way … Continue reading →

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A Critique of JavaScript MVC frameworks – Beware of Rampant Asynchronous JavaScript Calls

by Laurence Posted on January 27, 2013

Software professionals should be aware of the limitations that come with the current trend of building asynchronous heavy web applications. We are seeing a surge in serious and large scale JavaScript applications at the enterprise level. Here is a list … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Require.js and a simpler approach to loading JavaScript

by Laurence Posted on January 10, 2013

Require.js is trying to solve the problem of dealing with lots of JavaScript. I have used it with Backbone.js, underscore, Dojo, and jQuery. It works well, but it does take some effort to get it configured and running within your … Continue reading →

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Software Ghettos – A Form of Technical Debt

by Laurence Posted on December 7, 2012

A few years ago I was talking to a senior Java engineer. He was asking me about Django and Python. Having never used the stack himself, and thinking that ‘scripting languages are just toys’, he was skeptical of this new … Continue reading →

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Architectural Components to Plan For From Day 1

by Laurence Posted on July 17, 2012

Businesses rely in part, on technology, to differentiate themselves. There is no cookie cutter solution that allows a business an exclusive chance to be better and faster at serving customers. Simple solutions are already used by everyone, so there is … Continue reading →

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PHP Fat-Free Routing Examples

by Laurence Posted on February 25, 2012

The PHP Fat-Free framework is the best library I have found in the PHP world for SEO friendly URL routes (eg, /people/{some_username}). It is simple, flexible, and gets the job done with only a 58KB footprint! This can be thought … Continue reading →

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Python Strategy Pattern

by Laurence Posted on August 6, 2011

The strategy pattern can be a nice way to improve flexibility when accessing external resources. For example an application might have images referenced in Flickr and a relational database. You want to be able to search both places, but you … Continue reading →

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Memory Based Simultaneous User Limit

by Laurence Posted on July 14, 2011

As a follow on to my last post about PHP memory consumption, I wanted to get some ideas out there about memory utilization. This post explores: An equation for the maximum number of users an application can support on a … Continue reading →

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Memory Usage in PHP Frameworks

by Laurence Posted on June 14, 2011

I ran some tests across different PHP frameworks to see how much memory a single page request uses (FatFree, Symfony 1.0x, WordPress, and Drupal). I also asked some colleagues to share what they got. This is based on PHP 5.2 … Continue reading →

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Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications

by Laurence Posted on October 25, 2008

Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications Interface21, Bram Smeets, Seth Ladd (2007) This book is an excellent nuts and bolts introduction to the Spring 2.0 framework. It covers the core (DI/IoC) container, aspect oriented programming, data access, transactions, and Spring MVC. … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: architecture

Webservice API design tips – correct pagination and exposing deleted rows

A Critique of JavaScript MVC frameworks – Beware of Rampant Asynchronous JavaScript Calls

Thoughts on Require.js and a simpler approach to loading JavaScript

Software Ghettos – A Form of Technical Debt

Architectural Components to Plan For From Day 1

PHP Fat-Free Routing Examples

Python Strategy Pattern

Memory Based Simultaneous User Limit

Memory Usage in PHP Frameworks

Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications

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