Posts I made on Microsoft Israel MCS blog (in hebrew)

First post about what should be avoided when considering the use of design patterns: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/mcs/archive/2009/11/04/426203.aspx

Second post about NoSQL (not-only SQL):
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/mcs/archive/2010/03/17/nosql-not-only-sql.aspx

Unfortunately they copied the text from word document directly into the blog editor which led to some rather funny mistakes in the products listing and categorization section. the real mapping is as follows:

Azure table storage -> Microsoft

Memcachedb

Velocity -> Microsoft

Cassandra -> facebook and DIGG

Dynamo -> amazon

tokyoTyrant

barkelyDb

if you want to see how it really works check out this blog-post from a very talented person I know :)
http://drorbr.blogspot.com/2010/02/migrating-springhibernate-application.html
The usage example there is in Java but it really doesn't matter…

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

It seems that software architects love to write articles. I found this link and must say that some of the articles there gave me some good ideas and nice observations. One of the short but very good articles is about "Continuously Integrate"

www.highscalability.com - very good site about HPC/scalability/architecture

I consider this site a must for everyone who's interested in the realm of HPC/scalability/architecture.

You can find there some detailed posts, debates and links about topics such as youtube/flickr/amazon architecture, thoughts outside the relational database model, introduction to relevant products and much more.

http://www.highscalability.com/