Dopplr for developers: “it’s made of messages”
I’m writing this from the second afternoon of the Future of Web Apps conference in London. It’s been great to see so many developers, designers and entrepreneurs come together from across Europe.
If you’re an attendee, we’ve made you a Future of Web Apps ‘08 Dopplr group that you can join and use to see where everyone came from, share tips on London and share your travels with new contacts from the conference after you leave.
I gave a talk on the first afternoon, on the developer track. Entitled “Dopplr: made of messages”, it’s an overview of how we use message queue technology on our servers and why it’s so useful to developers when building scalable web systems. Here are the slides, complete with notes. Do get in touch if you’re a developer and would like to discuss the topic in more depth.
Cheers Matt – I really, really enjoyed the talk. One of the best moments of FOWA, I’ll definitely starting thinking about this elegant approach from now.
Matt, thanks for giving us such an wonderful message. i would really like to discuss the topic in more depth.
Hi Matt,
Thoroughly enjoyed the talk. For me, and also for one of my developers, it was one of the most important talks of the conference. It’s certainly made my team think more about designing for a multi-server architecture before we actually have a multi-server architecture.
It seems that a lot of the talks and sessions at FOWA had one of two common themes this year – dealing with growing pains or how the economic crisis is affecting our industry – both very hot topics. The former was far more interesting of course, but also had some interesting influences on the latter.
As an example, I built our main data processing system with scalability in mind (I’ve always been a fan of the whole “small things, loosely coupled” idea) and it means that by doing so, when the time finally does come around to scale up, it won’t cost you hours (or days, or weeks) in re-designing your system to cope.
Once again, thanks for the insightful talk – I hope to catch more of your presentations over the coming year!
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