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Aurelius Titan graph enables realtime querying with 2400 concurrent users on a distributed graph database! 21 Aug 2013 | 03:43 pm
Sorry to start with a conclusion first… To me Titan graph seems to be the egg-laying wool-milk-sow that people would dream of when working with graph data. Especially if one needs graph data in a web ...
My ranked list of priorities for Backend Web Programming: Scalability > Maintainable code > performance 27 Jul 2013 | 02:21 pm
The redevelopment of metalcon is going on and so far I have been very concerned about performance and webscale. Due to the progress of Martin on his bachlor thesis we did a code review of the code to ...
Comparison of open educational resources services to host your MOOC 25 Jul 2013 | 10:43 pm
This article on open and free platforms to host your MOOC belongs to the entire series: comparison of places to host your MOOC. As already mentioned there are only a few platforms which really belong ...
Comparison of platforms and places to use to host your MOOC 24 Jul 2013 | 09:03 pm
As many of you know and voted (thanks for that) Steffen and I tried to get a MOOC fellowship in order to create a web science MOOC. Even though our application was not successful we decided that onlin...
Drug junkie steals my neo4j t-shirt out of my physical mailbox 17 Jul 2013 | 11:51 pm
Me wearing my stolen neo4j shirt which I took back from the thief Being at FOSDEM 20013 Peter from Neo4j asked my if I would like to get a neo4j shirt send to my home adress. We have to keep in mind ...
Why would musicians use online social networking sites? 17 Jul 2013 | 02:56 pm
For the last 5 years I have been running metalcon an online social network for metal fans and metal bands. As written recently I have the the chance to rewrite the entire platform with a team of 6 pr...
Video of FOSDEM talk finally online 25 Jun 2013 | 08:55 pm
I was visiting FOSDEM 2013 with Heinrich Hartmann and talking about related-work.net the video of this talk is finally online and of course I would like to share this with the community: The slides c...
GWT + database connection in Servlet ContextListener – Auto Complete Video Tutorial Part 5 24 Jun 2013 | 04:44 pm
Finally we have all the basics that are needed for building an Autocomplete service and now comes the juicy part. From now on we are looking at how to make it fast and robust. In the current approach ...
Building an Autocomplete Service in GWT screencast Part 4: Integrating the neo4j Data base 20 Jun 2013 | 05:38 pm
In this screencast of my series I explain at a very basic level how to integrate a data base to pull data for autocomplete queries. Since we have been working with neo4j at this time I used a neo4j da...
Metalcon finally gets a redesign – Thinking about high scalability 17 Jun 2013 | 08:21 pm
Finally metalcon.de the social networking site which Jonas, Jens and me created in 2008 gets a redesign. Thanks to the great opportunities at the Institute for Web Science and Technologies here in Kob...
