Daily Reading - Saturday, June 15 2013

What's Wrong with the iOS 7 Icons?
Poor choice of color, inconsistent language, weak use of metaphor are comments of iOS 7 icons on HackerNews

Release more with less
The author provides some evidences why we should release small changes more frequenly. It will improve cycle time, flow, feedback, risk, overheads, efficiency, ownership.

Enterprise 2.0
Enterprise will be social, mobile, cloud and big data.

Wormhole pub/sub system: Moving data through space and time
It's Facebook's pub/sub system that delivers 1 trillion messages per day. It look like delivery service than message service.

Foursquare's geographic stack
It replies on open sources: PostGIS, GDAL, Shapely, Fiona, QGIS, S2, and JTS. It also relies on open geographic data: OSM, geonames.org, US Census’ TIGER, Canada’s geogratis, Mexico’s INEGI and EuroGeoGraphics

Decoupled CMS
Decoupled CMS is a movement that remove monolithic stacks. It improves collaboration, scalability, flexibility for CMS. It separate the whole stack into 3 independent components: Web Editing tool, Web Framework, and Content Repository. So that we can use SQL Server, CouchDB, MongoDB for repository and Web Framework like Rails, Django, PHP,..

Monitoring Single Page App
Monitoring on the server is not enough. We should monitoring feature load, page load and unresponsiveness on the client. We can use Google Analytics to do that.

SQL Server 2014 Hekaton White paper
It's good read to know how Hekaton store data in memory.

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