Michael Feathers has an interesting post up on the Beautiful Code blog.  In the post he notes the seeming oncoming rise of functional languages and then bemoans this because they are not object oriented and therefore cannot be easily tested. Michael feels that a strength of object oriented programming is its ability to overwrite methods [...]

You knew it was only a matter of time until it showed up: the Erlang Reddit. Now it could only be better if it was written in Erlang.

Yahoo has announced they are now using Hadoop, an open source implementation of MapReduce, for processing search data, and they’ve also announced impressive performance gains because of it. While investigating this story I also came across mention of IBM using Hadoop for it’s cloud computing initiative. I think these related stories point towards the future [...]