This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Web Buzz by Mark Masterson. Original Post: The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) Feed Title: Process Perfection Feed URL: http://www.jroller.com/MasterMark/feed/entries/rss Feed Description: Life, the Universe, workflow, BPM, Java, Ruby, functional/generative/meta programming, pi calculus, patterns, the Grid, agents, software architecture and the kitchen sink. :) Latest Web Buzz Posts Latest Web Buzz Posts by Mark Masterson Latest Posts From Process Perfection

The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)

As always (they were talking about Erlang years ago), LTU is a place where people talk about really cool stuff, usually long before anybody else does, and usually in deep, scientific detail (LTU does have flame wars, but they tend to be funny, for a non-academic). Lately, in my personal blogosphere, there have been any number of people talking about their doubts about the applicability of the RDBMS as a technology to terabyte+ masses of data. LTU is a place to read the smart kids thinking about stuff like that.

Robert Glass (genuinely, one of my personal heroes of the profession) has made a crusade out of trying to get academics and practitioners to communicate more, and has probably done more for that cause than any other single human being. I think sites like LTU (where we coal facers can watch the academics muse and bullshit amongst each other) dramatically change the equation that Glass has always attacked. I wonder if he knows about LTU.