Thursday, November 13, 2008

Windows SearchIndexer

SearchIndexer - XP pro. machine has new utility searchindexer, which intend is to provide a better localfile system search. all know how good earlier search was.. some pro use to install cygwin to search windows FS.
I recently downloaded tons of source code. searchindexer kicked in start indexing file it took 2gb!1 of memory..
so i tried to reschedule it, to weekend. but there is no such option
next thing was to deselect filetypes to index, it list 1000 of file types, i am bit confused why are there so many file types ? in theory there should be 3 file types a ascii text file , binary files and ms document binary which you should be able to search from ms platform if was plain xml doc then things would have been easier .. that for another day.!!
Nor it has option of bulk select and deselect "select all" you have to click on individual box !!
hope they come with some simple interface and provide more tuning options for such resource intensive tasks.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Some Jargons

it helps knowing few technology jargon
SOA - service oriented architecture
More a architecture design paradigm. A concept, a high level design not much technology focus. But at end of day is has be realized in technology!. There are tons of tools depend on purpose
EDA - event driven architecture
EDA is SOA with event intelligence . Basic technologies which are event aware - JMS, MQ. Pull model Http.
BPM- business process management
Tools - State engines, human workflow engines.
ESB - Enterprise service bus
Tools - Tibco BusinessWorks, ALSB (now OSB) etc. TIBCO BW, Oracle BPEL engine

Note: Like any new concept, SOA has it share of debates. Sometimes I even don't follow questions!. But I know with my experience, depending on use case, what fit where, which concept brings value and are reasonably better.

one two .. here we go.

SOA"service oriented architecture" and EDA "event driven architecture" or extended SOA or I will put acceptable SOA. It is bit abstract, "marketing jargon" , "very business specific" for many people out there. This blog will discuss more implementation aspects of SOA it will include/describe various vendor products. Which i have use over period of time to solve business problem . Idea is to showcase value of solid tools and as a sound architecture approach to make SOA a success.