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Some APIs we have. Some we don't (yet). - POJO Mojo

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:02:48 -0700

Disco

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:02:09 -0700

Apache CouchDB: The CouchDB Project

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:02:09 -0700

Andrew File System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:04:47 -0700

Hadoop Live CD at OpenSolaris.org

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:02:58 -0700

GitTorrent Protocol version 0.1: GitTorrent Protocol -- GTP/0.1

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:58:11 -0700

Disco

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:58:46 -0700

a new map-reduce framework: core in Erlang, jobs in Python. From Nokia Labs

jwiegley's git-issues at master — GitHub

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:58:23 -0700

Distributed issue tracking which works with git

Disco

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:02:29 -0700

Disco

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:57:41 -0700

Disco is an open-source implementation of the Map-Reduce framework for distributed computing. The Disco core is written in Erlang, a functional language that is designed for building robust fault-tolerant distributed applications.

InfoQ: Distributed Version Control Systems: A Not-So-Quick Guide Through

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:56:35 -0700

Apache CouchDB: The CouchDB Project

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:56:46 -0700

An open source, distributed, document-oriented DB. Kind of interesting, and maybe useful for certain applications

Disco

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:58:38 -0700

Scala Blog: A Scalable Language, and a Scalable Framework

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:02:14 -0700

Disco

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:56:49 -0700

Disco - Massive Data, Minimal Code

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:59:20 -0700

Disco is an open-source implementation of the Map-Reduce framework for distributed computing. As the original framework, Disco supports parallel computations over large data sets on unreliable cluster of computers. The Disco core is written in Erlang, a functional language that is designed for building robust fault-tolerant distributed applications. Users of Disco typically write jobs in Python, which makes it possible to express even complex algorithms or data processing tasks often only in tens of lines of code. This means that you can quickly write scripts to process massive amounts of data. Disco was started at Nokia Research Center as a lightweight framework for rapid scripting of distributed data processing tasks. This far Disco has been succesfully used, for instance, in parsing and reformatting data, data clustering, probabilistic modelling, data mining, full-text indexing, and log analysis with hundreds of gigabytes of real-world data.

Git and Trac - A Love Story. | Hidden Reflex

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:58:14 -0700

Open Source Cache Solutions in Java

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:57:21 -0700

dlwh's smr at master — GitHub

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:01:29 -0700

Disco

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:56:51 -0700

Disco

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:58:13 -0700

Disco

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:57:16 -0700

Main Page - Wiki3

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:58:09 -0700

Whose Distributed VCS Is The Most Distributed? - The Changelog

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:57:11 -0700

Distributed Scrum: Agile Project Management with Outsourced Development Teams

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:02:03 -0700

I just ran across a paper from 2006 that talks about using the Scrum methodology with distributed software development teams:

http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/2006/06/distributed-scrum-agile-project.html

There's also some background on the origins of Scrum in general:

The idea of building a self-empowered team in which a daily global view of the product cause the team to self-organize seemed like the right idea.

The emergent behavior of self-organizing system is fascinating to me, even apart from software development. There's definitely a parallel to high-performing agile software development teams.

One of the interesting complexity phenomena of the first Scrum with an observed "punctuated equilibrium" effect. This occurs in biological evolution when a species in stable for long periods of time and then undergoes a sudden jump in capability.

The recommended practices for distributed teams all seem involve keeping the traditional daily 15-minute scrum meetings with the whole team. People ended up emailing their status and plans before the meeting, to mitigate language issues and keep the phone calls short. I suspect that the main benefit of actually holding the calls, instead of relying solely on emails, is to provide accountability. Otherwise it's just too easy to publish a daily report late, or skip the reporting completely.

An Experiment

I'm the "product owner" on a team with members from two locations in the Philippines, and me in the US. We're experimenting with an approach where the project manager acts as "scrum master" for a morning scrum, held in a chat room instead of over the phone. The log gets emailed to everyone. I review the log, respond to issues via email, and follow up via instant message for anything that requires further discussion. As a result, there's a searchable electronic record of all those conversations, which I'm very fond of. So far it's working out pretty well!

preed's blah-blah-blahg: Version Control System Shootout Redux Redux

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:59:19 -0700

Apache CouchDB: The CouchDB Project

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:59:19 -0700

Howto use Git and svn together | Flavio Castelli

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:57:22 -0700

Howto use Git and svn together | Flavio Castelli

Evaluation of Git, Mercurial, Darcs and Bzr

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:58:23 -0700

The GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) review of distributed versioning systems

MFS

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:57:46 -0700

MFS is a networking, distributed file system. It spreads data over several physical localizations (servers), which are visible to a user as one resource. For standard file operations MFS acts as other Unix-alike file systems. It has hierarchical structure (directory tree), stores file attributes(permissions, last access and modification times) and makes it possible to create special files (block and character devices, pipes and sockets), symbolic links (file names pointing to other files accessible locally, not necessarily on MFS) and hard links (different names of files which refer to the same data on MFS).