Systems We Make
Be it REST or Amazon’s Dynamo or Google’s Map Reduce the Great Deluge of Data from the last couple of years have paved way to a great number of innovations in the Distributed Systems space. NoSQL has become commonplace and attempts such as Mongo will perhaps help NoSQL become mainstream.
Trends and speculations apart Distributed Systems as a topic of research and development is right now garnering a lot mindshare. I have been following some of the interesting research and open source contributions for a while now. The number of papers I have accumulated on topics ranging from map reduce to content delivery networks to multi tenancy for the cloud have reached a threshold where it has become necessary to curate them under one roof.
This is the idea behind Systems We Make.
In the last couple of weeks this fledgling site has been live the interest and response from the community has been quite overwhelming and has managed to get some great mindshare.