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Process home monitoring data using the Time Series Database in Bluemix
I keep a lot of information about my house – I have had sensors and recording units in various parts of my house years, recording info through a variety of different devices. Over the years I’ve built a number of different solutions for storing and displaying the information, and when the opportunity came up to…
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Introduction to programming in Erlang, Part 2: Use advanced features and functionality
Part two of my introduction to programming Erlang is available on IBM developerWorks: Erlang is a multi-purpose programming language that is primarily used for developing concurrent and distributed systems. Part 1 of this series introduced Erlang …
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Introduction to programming in Erlang, Part 1: The basics
I have a new article on programming in Erlang available on IBM developerWorks: Erlang is a multi-purpose programming language used primarily for developing concurrent and distributed systems. It began as a proprietary programming language used by …
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Xapian/Omega
A new article on indexing documents using the Xapian/Omega toolkit is now available. From the intro: Storing and providing access to documentation and information is an ever-growing problem for many companies. There are many solutions, including w…
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Take advantage of using libevent and libev
I have a new article available on making use of the libevent and libev libraries. libevent has become a very popular choice for people that want to build very efficient I/O systems, particularly for network solutions, and therefore it fits nicely …
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Deploying Gearman across multiple environments
A new article on using the work distribution tool, Gearman: The open source Gearman service allows you to easily distribute work to other machines in your network, either because you want to spread the work over a large body of machines or because…
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Ten XML Schemas you should know
A new article on Ten XML Schemas that you should be aware of is now available at IBM developerWorks. The article collects together some of the XML schemas that I think are important. In this article, look at some top XML schemas that provide solut…
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Building a grid system using WS-Resource Transfer
For those of you wanting to read the entire WS-Resource Transfer series, IBM have provided an overview page that covers all of the articles/tutorials within the series. See Building a grid system using WS-Resource Transfer
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Building a grid system using WS-Resource Transfer, Part 5: Using WS-RT for work distribution
The fifth and final part of my series on using WS-Resource Transfer is available to read now. In this last part we look at using the WS-RT system as a method for distributing work within your grid system. Read Building a grid system using WS-Resou…
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Migrating from WSRF to WSRT
If you’ve been reading the main MCslp blog you will know that I’ve been writing a series on writing a grid solution using WS-RT. WS-Resource Transfer is an improved version of the WS-Resource Framework (and the associated WS-ResourceLifetime and W…