Archive 11. April 2011

agronholm / jython-swingutils. No idea what I could do with it yet, but if the Java world ever becomes interesting, this could become an interesting GUI library (Swing for Jython).

Code rant: Message Queue Shootout!. Not a real shootout and only an incomplete selection of message queues. But still something interesting as a result: if you have nodes that already have their own persistence and transaction solutions, between which you just want to send messages as quickly as possible - there is nothing better than ZeroMQ. It is - due to its architecture - simply the fastest solution. And we are talking about really drastic differences.

NOSQL Databases. Excellent overview of all available NoSQL databases. Good starting point if you want to inform yourself about the available systems and their orientation and implementation.