Enterprise content-managed websites need bi-directional content transfers on a regular basis. Here we explain why, and how to achieve this, a task which involves content editors, IT operations, and software development teams.
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October 25, 2011
Matthew Skelton
Here is the video of the seminar we gave recently at Internet World 2011 on the Content Platform we built for TUI Travel.
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May 26, 2011
Matthew Skelton
The Twitter Engineering team (@twittereng) has just achieved an impressive 3x performance improvement for Twitter search queries, largely, it seems, by replacing Ruby-on-Rails web applications with new applications built on Java, coupled with a switch from MySQL to Lucene for the data store.
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April 7, 2011
Matthew Skelton
Earlier this week, thousands of Vodafone customers around the south of England lost mobile service (calls, SMS, data). The cause? Theft of equipment at one of Vodafone’s operations centres in Basingstoke.
It appears that Vodafone has or had a single point of failure (often referred to as ‘SPOF’) in its infrastructure, surprising, since SPOF is usually one of the first aspects of a complex system to be identified and removed/mitigated.
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March 2, 2011
Matthew Skelton