There is client-server software, and there is peer-to-peer software. Are these two architectures all we ever need for distributed software? I’d like to suggest that some of the world’s most successful distributed software architectures are neither client-server nor peer-to-peer when you look at them closely. They follow an architectural pattern that I’d like to call [...]
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Yesterday’s personal news highlight, for me, was that: …a bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference … the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics as reported by CNN. This relates to me, for two reasons: My former boss Jürgen Bortolazzi, a prolific author of (good!) [...]
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In the olde days, parents would teach their kids when and how to take off their hat, and how to address a town notable. In the early days of the internet, we got netiquette, primarily focused on the new social technologies of e-mail and and bulletin boards, although it now seems to be largely forgotten [...]
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