Cloud Architecture Tutorial – Platform Component Architecture (2of3) : Amazing stuff from Adrian Cockroft at last week’s QCon. Faceted object model, lots of Cassandra automation
(tags: cassandra api design oo object-model java adrian-cockroft slides qcon scaling aws netflix)“A Rough Justice” : The poem, written by Sir Robert Watson-Watt, inventor of radar, on being pulled over for speeding by a radar-gun-wielding policeman. “Watson-Watt received a speeding ticket in Canada when he was 64 years old. In his autobiography, _The Pulse of Radar_, he describes the experience. His wife is in the car, and she tries to pull the “don’t you know who you’re giving a ticket to?” trick on the policeman. Of course he doesn’t know Watson-Watt, nor, it turns out, does he even know what radar is (he only knows what his “electronic speedometer” reads out), and Watson-Watt receives a $12.50 (Canadian) dollar fine.” (via Rob Manuel)
(tags: via:robmanuel radar technology irony robert-watson-watt poetry history)