Lego Style Software Design

My company recently got the chance to work on a very interesting project (which unfortunately I can't divulge at the moment).  What made the project fun to work on, aside from the product level challenges, was the fact that we were given much more architectural flexibility than usual.

Amongst the work emerged the following:

EC2 architecture notes

I've updated the home page of Systemical: you'll find a bunch of useful links to documents:

• An EC2 architecture
• Distributed Leader Election Protocol
• Data-Flow based EC2 architecture

Enjoy :)

Notes on a Message Passing design

I am an avid supporter of "message based" systems. I took the time to perform a quick "brain dump" of some of my thoughts on the subject.



Follows a simple Python based implementation.



I will very likely make other contributions to my blog along the same lines.